Cucumber transcriptome tells story of early fruit development from fruit set through exponential growth

ABSTRACT: Early stages of fruit growth from initial set through exponential growth are critical determinants of size and yield, however, there has been little detailed analysis of this phase of development. In this study we combined morphological analysis with 454 pyrosequencing to study gene expression changes occurring in young cucumber fruit at five ages from anthesis through the end of exponential growth. The resulting 1.13 million ESTs were assembled into 27,859 contigs with a mean length of 834 base pairs and a mean of 67 reads per contig. Principal component analysis separated the fruit ages into three groups corresponding with cell division/pre-exponential growth (0 and 4 days post pollination (dpp)), peak exponential expansion (8dpp), and late/post-exponential expansion stages of growth

ORGANISM(S): Cucumis sativus var. sativus

SUBMITTER: Kevin Carr 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-39310 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress