Deep sequencing transcriptional fingerprinting of rice kernels for dissecting grain quality traits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rice represents one the most important foods all over the world. In Europe, Italy is the first rice producer and Italian production is driven by tradition and quality. All main rice grain quality traits, like cooking properties, texture, gelatinization temperature, chalkiness and yield, are related to the content and composition of starch and seed-storage proteins in the endosperm and to grain shape. In addition, a number of nutraceutical compounds and allergens are known to have a significant effect on grain quality determination. To investigate the genetic bases underlying the qualitative differences that characterize traditional Italian rice cultivars, a comparative RNA-Seq-based transcriptomic analysis of developing caryopsis was conducted at 14 days after flowering

SUBMITTER: Biselli C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4687084 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature