De novo transcriptome analysis of Hevea brasiliensis tissues by RNA-seq and screening for molecular markers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, is a species native to the Brazilian Amazon region and it supplies almost all the world's natural rubber, a strategic raw material for a variety of products. One of the major challenges for developing rubber tree plantations is adapting the plant to biotic and abiotic stress. Transcriptome analysis is one of the main approaches for identifying the complete set of active genes in a cell or tissue for a specific developmental stage or physiological condition.

Results

Here, we report on the sequencing, assembling, annotation and screening for molecular markers from a pool of H. brasiliensis tissues. A total of 17,166 contigs were successfully annotated. Then, 2,191 Single Nucleotide Variation (SNV) and 1.397 Simple Sequence Repeat

SUBMITTER: Salgado LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4051172 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature