Construction of a deep-coverage BAC Library from Lycopersicon esculentum cv. Heinz 1706

 

Large insert genomic DNA libraries are essential for many genome-based applications from positional cloning to genome sequencing. We have recently completed the construction of a deep-coverage BAC library of the cultivated tomato-Lycopersicon esculentum cv. Heinz 1706. Heinz 1706 was selected because it is a recurrent parent of several NILs developed by Philouze et al. (1991) and is the jointed parent of a mapping population we developed to map jointless-2. Here we report a brief description of the library and how it will be provided to the plant community.