Comprehensive analysis of Panax ginseng root transcriptomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) is a highly effective medicinal plant containing ginsenosides with various pharmacological activities, whose roots are produced commercially for crude drugs.

Results

Here, we used the Illumina platform to generate over 232 million RNA sequencing reads from four root samples, including whole roots from one-year-old plants and three types of root tissue from six-year-old plants (i.e., main root bodies, rhizomes, and lateral roots). Through de novo assembly and reference-assisted selection, we obtained a non-redundant unigene set consisting of 55,949 transcripts with an average length of 1,250 bp. Among transcripts in the unigene set, 94 % were functionally annotated via similarity searches against protein databases. Approxim

SUBMITTER: Jayakodi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4464628 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature