Transcriptome analyses of early cucumber fruit growth identifies distinct gene modules associated with phases of development.

ABSTRACT:

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ABBACKGROUND: Early stages of fruit development from initial set through exponential growth are critical determinants of size and yield, however, there has been little detailed analysis of this phase of development. In this study we combined morphological analysis with 454 pyrosequencing to study transcript level changes occurring in young cucumber fruit at five ages from anthesis through the end of exponential growth.

Results

The fruit samples produced 1.13 million ESTs which were assembled into 27,859 contigs with a mean length of 834 base pairs and a mean of 67 reads per contig. All contigs were mapped to the cucumber genome. Principal component analysis separated the fruit ages into three groups corresponding with cell division/pre-exponential growth (0 and 4

SUBMITTER: Ando K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3477022 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature