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In this study, three methods of protein extraction from the seeds of the Chinese fir were compared by examining the quality (including the number of protein spots observed) in the two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE), obtained by isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the total released protein. Three protein extraction methods were: TCA-acetone precipitation, SDS extraction/acetone precipitation, and phenol extraction methanol/ammonium acetate precipitation. The results showed that TCA-acetone precipitation was the most effective method for protein extraction; it gave the highest yield of total protein (8.9 mg protein per g seed weight) and the greatest number of proteins spots (1,034 spots) on the 2-DE gel. Further, several proteins were identified by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC MS/MS), which are legumin-like storage protein, similar to AMP binding/acetate-CoA ligase, similar to 40S ribosomal protein S20, actin, ascorbate peroxidase, Similar to cysteine synthase, and unknown protein. These data demonstrates that TCA-acetone precipitation followed by 2-DE and LC MS/MS is a suitable method for proteomic analysis of coniferous species, such as Chinese fir and provides a valuable starting point for similar proteomic analysis of other coniferous tree species.