Transcriptomic signatures in seeds of apple (Malus domestica L. Borkh) during fruitlet abscission.

ABSTRACT: Abscission is the regulated process of detachment of an organ from a plant. In apple the abscission of fruits occurs during their early development to control the fruit load depending on the nutritional state of the plant. In order to control production and obtain fruits with optimal market qualities, the horticultural procedure of thinning is performed to further reduce the number of fruitlets. In this study we have conducted a transcriptomic profiling of seeds from two different types of fruitlets, according to size and position in the fruit cluster. Transcriptomic profiles of central and lateral fruit seeds were obtained by RNAseq. Comparative analysis was performed by the functional categorization of differentially expressed genes by means of Gene Ontology (GO) annotation of the apple

SUBMITTER: Ferrero S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4364616 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature