Comparative transcriptomic analysis of male and female flowers of monoecious Quercus suber.

ABSTRACT: Monoecious species provide a comprehensive system to study the developmental programs underlying the establishment of female and male organs in unisexual flowers. However, molecular resources for most monoecious non-model species are limited, hampering our ability to study the molecular mechanisms involved in flower development of these species. The objective of this study was to identify differentially expressed genes during the development of male and female flowers of the monoecious species Quercus suber, an economically important Mediterranean tree. Total RNA was extracted from different developmental stages of Q. suber flowers. Non-normalized cDNA libraries of male and female flowers were generated using 454 pyrosequencing technology producing a total of 962,172 high-quality reads wit

SUBMITTER: Rocheta M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4222140 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature