Tea India Genome e-Resources (TIGeR)

Tea India Genome e-Resources (TIGeR) is an comprehensive web based data repository providing free access to world tea community for genetics, genomics and breeding resources to facilitate the basic and applied biotechnological research of tea. This database contain the whole genome sequencing data of Indian Tea cultivar (TV-1) along with various other genomics resources such as SSR, InDels, non–coding RNA, lncRNA etc. The data base also contains the complete sequence of chloroplast and mitochondrial genome of tea. TIGeR provides links to these in-house databases and integrated tools for easy querying , visualizing and downloading option of the data.

Tea is an important commercial crop of the world. It is originated in Indo-China region. Tea is being cultivated in the form of Industry though of late small tea growers are also coming up to cultivate this crop. Botanically it is an woody perennial crop with an economic life span of more than 60 years. Though it is big tree but under cultivated form the height is maintained upto the 60-80 cm. The genus Camellia has more than 300 different species although only two species are found to have caffeine which is consumed as drink. They are Camellia sinensis and Camellia assamica. It has the genome size 3Gb with chromosome of 2n=2x=30.

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