De novo assembly, characterization and functional annotation of pineapple fruit transcriptome through massively parallel sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pineapple (Ananas comosus var. comosus), is an important tropical non-climacteric fruit with high commercial potential. Understanding the mechanism and processes underlying fruit ripening would enable scientists to enhance the improvement of quality traits such as, flavor, texture, appearance and fruit sweetness. Although, the pineapple is an important fruit, there is insufficient transcriptomic or genomic information that is available in public databases. Application of high throughput transcriptome sequencing to profile the pineapple fruit transcripts is therefore needed.

Methodology/principal findings

To facilitate this, we have performed transcriptome sequencing of ripe yellow pineapple fruit flesh using Illumina technology. About 4.7 millions Illumina paired-

SUBMITTER: Ong WD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3473051 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature