Estimating Transcriptome Diversity and Specialization in Capsicum annuum L.

ABSTRACT: Chili pepper fruits of the genus Capsicum represent excellent experimental models to study the growth, development, and ripening processes in a non-climacteric species at the physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels. Fruit growth, development, and ripening involve a complex, harmonious, and finely controlled regulation of gene expression. The purpose of this study was to estimate the changes in transcriptome diversity and specialization, as well as gene specificities during fruit development in this crop, and to illustrate the advantages of estimating these parameters. To achieve these aims, we programmed and made publicly available an R package. In this study, we applied these methods to a set of 179 RNA-Seq libraries from a factorial experiment that includes 12 different g

SUBMITTER: Ochoa-Alejo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11013594 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature