De novo characterization of the Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) transcriptome and analysis of candidate genes involved in cellulose and lignin biosynthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) is an important timber species that accounts for 20-30% of the total commercial timber production in China. However, the available genomic information of Chinese fir is limited, and this severely encumbers functional genomic analysis and molecular breeding in Chinese fir. Recently, major advances in transcriptome sequencing have provided fast and cost-effective approaches to generate large expression datasets that have proven to be powerful tools to profile the transcriptomes of non-model organisms with undetermined genomes.

Results

In this study, the transcriptomes of nine tissues from Chinese fir were analyzed using the Illumina HiSeq™ 2000 sequencing platform. Approximately 40 million paired-end reads were obtained, generat

SUBMITTER: Huang HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3561127 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature