Elucidating the Mesocarp Drupe Transcriptome of Acai (Euterpe oleracea Mart.): An Amazonian Tree Palm Producer of Bioactive Compounds.

ABSTRACT: Euterpe oleracea palm, endemic to the Amazon region, is well known for açai, a fruit violet beverage with nutritional and medicinal properties. During E. oleracea fruit ripening, anthocyanin accumulation is not related to sugar production, contrarily to grape and blueberry. Ripened fruits have a high content of anthocyanins, isoprenoids, fibers, and proteins, and are poor in sugars. E. oleracea is proposed as a new genetic model for metabolism partitioning in the fruit. Approximately 255 million single-end-oriented reads were generated on an Ion Proton NGS platform combining fruit cDNA libraries at four ripening stages. The de novo transcriptome assembly was tested using six assemblers and 46 different combinations of parameters, a pre-processing and a post-processing

SUBMITTER: Darnet E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10253617 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature