Identification of alternative splicing events by RNA sequencing in early growth tomato fruits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alternative splicing (AS) regulates multiple biological processes including flowering, circadian and stress response in plant. Although accumulating evidences indicate that AS is developmentally regulated, how AS responds to developmental cues is not well understood. Early fruit growth mainly characterized by active cell division and cell expansion contributes to the formation of fruit morphology and quality traits. Transcriptome profiling has revealed the coordinated complex regulation of gene expression in the process. High throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) technology is advancing the genome-wide analysis of AS events in plant species, but the landscape of AS in early growth fruit is still not available for tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), a model plant for fleshy frui

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4647595 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature