Background

Due to rapid development of sequencing and genome assembly technologies, the cost for whole genome sequencing has been dropped a lot reaching that 1,000 dollars per 1 Gbp. First genome of Populus (Populus trichocarpa) was published in 2006, as a model tree. One of Korean Populus species, called as Hyunsasi-namu (Mi>Populus alba x Populus tremula var. glandulosa), has been utilized as a material for molecular studies in Korea because this species was already fully adapted and it is sterile. However, there is no sequences of this species. P. tremula genome (http://popgenie.org/) was released recently which is one part of this species. We sequenced the genome of P. alba x P. tremula var. glandulosa with several libraries using Illumina HiSeq platform.

Beside this genome, many genomic/transcriptomic sequences of genus Populus are available: For example, i) reference genome, Populus trichocarpa (Version 3 from JGI), ii) P. tremula, P. tremuloides, and P. tremula x P. tremuloides from http://popgenie.org/, iii) 962 individuals of P. tichocarpa from NCBI, iv) 365,602 EST sequences of the genus Populus. Due to a large amount of these sequence resources, web-based analysis platform is needed to conduct systematic comparative analysis. As an example, http://popgenie.org/ provides genome and transcriptome sequences as well as analysis functions on the web. However, adding another genome sequences is limited for newly sequenced P. alba x P. tremula var. glandulosa genome.

Researches (publications)

This paper was written for describing GATA trasncription factor family identified from the seven Populus genomes.

This paper was written for describing complete chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of Hyunsasi tree, Populus alba x Populus glandulosa.