Characterization of transcriptome dynamics during watermelon fruit development: sequencing, assembly, annotation and gene expression profiles.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cultivated watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus] is an important agriculture crop world-wide. The fruit of watermelon undergoes distinct stages of development with dramatic changes in its size, color, sweetness, texture and aroma. In order to better understand the genetic and molecular basis of these changes and significantly expand the watermelon transcript catalog, we have selected four critical stages of watermelon fruit development and used Roche/454 next-generation sequencing technology to generate a large expressed sequence tag (EST) dataset and a comprehensive transcriptome profile for watermelon fruit flesh tissues.

Results

We performed half Roche/454 GS-FLX run for each of the four watermelon fruit developmental stages (imma

SUBMITTER: Guo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3197533 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature