Abstract Persian or English walnut (Juglans regia L.), the walnut species cultivated for nut
production, is one of the oldest food sources known. Persian walnuts, native to the mountain …

The detection of species substitution has become an important topic within the food industry
and there is a growing need for rapid, reliable, and reproducible tests to verify species in …

Functional genomics technologies have been widely adopted in the biological research of
both model and non-model species. An efficient functional annotation of DNA or protein …

Functional annotation of novel sequence data is a primary requirement for the utilization of
functional genomics approaches in plant research. In this paper, we describe the Blast2GO …

Recent transcriptome studies have revealed that a large number of transcripts in mammals
and other organisms do not encode proteins but function as noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) …

We present a de novo assembly of a eukaryote transcriptome using 454 pyrosequencing
data. The Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia; Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) is a …

The plant family Rosaceae consists of over 100 genera and 3,000 species that include many
important fruit, nut, ornamental, and wood crops. Members of this family provide high-value …

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) has great potential as a major feedstock for biofuel
production worldwide. It is considered among the best options for producing biofuels today …

Background The most diverse marine ecosystems, coral reefs, depend upon a functional
symbiosis between cnidarian hosts and unicellular dinoflagellate algae. The molecular …

Astragalus membranaceus, also known as Huangqi in China, is one of the most widely used
medicinal herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine formulations …