ABSTRACT
There have been impressive advances in grape genomics in the past few years, and a substantial number of genomic tools have been developed so far, or are under development. These include mapping populations, genetic and physical maps (Adam-Blondon et al. 2005; Marguerit et al. 2009), and an extensive expressed sequence tags (EST) collection (more than 353,000 sequences deposited at the (National Center for Bioinformatics) NCBI EST database as on February 8, 2009). Analysis of ESTs (Iolandino et al. 2008), cDNA-amplifi ed fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis (Polesani et al. 2008) and microarrays have been used for high-throughput studies of gene expression and to provide functional data for many genes simultaneously.
