Transcriptome characterization of three wild Chinese Vitis uncovers a large number of distinct disease related genes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Grape is one of the most valuable fruit crops and can serve for both fresh consumption and wine production. Grape cultivars have been selected and evolved to produce high-quality fruits during their domestication over thousands of years. However, current widely planted grape cultivars suffer extensive loss to many diseases while most wild species show resistance to various pathogens. Therefore, a comprehensive evaluation of wild grapes would contribute to the improvement of disease resistance in grape breeding programs.

Results

We performed deep transcriptome sequencing of three Chinese wild grapes using the Illumina strand-specific RNA-Seq technology. High quality transcriptomes were assembled de novo and more than 93% transcripts were shared with the reference P

SUBMITTER: Jiao C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4373064 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature