Transcriptome profiling and comparative analysis of Panax ginseng adventitious roots.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Panax ginseng Meyer is a traditional medicinal plant famous for its strong therapeutic effects and serves as an important herbal medicine. To understand and manipulate genes involved in secondary metabolic pathways including ginsenosides, transcriptome profiling of P. ginseng is essential.

Methods

RNA-seq analysis of adventitious roots of two P. ginseng cultivars, Chunpoong (CP) and Cheongsun (CS), was performed using the Illumina HiSeq platform. After transcripts were assembled, expression profiling was performed.

Results

Assemblies were generated from ∼85 million and ∼77 million high-quality reads from CP and CS cultivars, respectively. A total of 35,527 and 27,716 transcripts were obtained from the CP and CS assemblies, respectively. Annotation of the tr

SUBMITTER: Jayakodi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4213845 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature