Transcriptome profiling of fruit development and maturation in Chinese white pear (Pyrus bretschneideri Rehd).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pear (Pyrus spp) is an important fruit species worldwide; however, its genetics and genomic information is limited. Combining the Solexa/Illumina RNA-seq high-throughput sequencing approach (RNA-seq) with Digital Gene Expression (DGE) analysis would be a powerful tool for transcriptomic study. This paper reports the transcriptome profiling analysis of Chinese white pear (P. bretschneideri) using RNA-seq and DGE to better understand the molecular mechanisms in fruit development and maturation of Chinese white pear.

Results

De novo transcriptome assembly and gene expression analysis of Chinese white pear were performed in an unprecedented depth (5.47 gigabase pairs) using high-throughput Illumina RNA-seq combined with a tag-based Digital Gene Expression (DGE) system

SUBMITTER: Xie M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4046828 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature