The first Illumina-based de novo transcriptome sequencing and analysis of safflower flowers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The safflower, Carthamus tinctorius L., is a worldwide oil crop, and its flowers, which have a high flavonoid content, are an important medicinal resource against cardiovascular disease in traditional medicine. Because the safflower has a large and complex genome, the development of its genomic resources has been delayed. Second-generation Illumina sequencing is now an efficient route for generating an enormous volume of sequences that can represent a large number of genes and their expression levels.

Methodology/principal findings

To investigate the genes and pathways that might control flavonoids and other secondary metabolites in the safflower, we used Illumina sequencing to perform a de novo assembly of the safflower tubular flower tissue transcriptome. We obt

SUBMITTER: Lulin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3378585 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature