ABSTRACT
Ginkgo biloba L. is the only surviving member of one of the oldest living seed plant groups with medicinal, spiritual, and horticultural importance worldwide. As an evolutionary relic, it displays many characters found in the early, extinct seed plants, and extant cycads. To establish a molecular base to understand the evolution of seeds and pollen, we created a cDNA library and expressed sequence tag (EST) dataset from the reproductive structures of male (microsporangiate), female (megasporangiate), and vegetative organs (leaves) of Ginkgo biloba.
