Identification and analysis of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) transcriptomes by massively parallel pyrosequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is the most important food legume in the world. Although this crop is very important to both the developed and developing world as a means of dietary protein supply, resources available in common bean are limited. Global transcriptome analysis is important to better understand gene expression, genetic variation, and gene structure annotation in addition to other important features. However, the number and description of common bean sequences are very limited, which greatly inhibits genome and transcriptome research. Here we used 454 pyrosequencing to obtain a substantial transcriptome dataset for common bean.

Results

We obtained 1,692,972 reads with an average read length of 207 nucleotides (nt). These reads were assembled into 59,

SUBMITTER: Kalavacharla V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3209450 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature