De novo transcriptomic assembly and profiling of Rigidoporus microporus during saprotrophic growth on rubber wood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The basidiomycete Rigidoporus microporus is a fungus that causes the white rot disease of the tropical rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, the major source of commercial natural rubber. Besides its lifestyle as a pathogen, the fungus is known to switch to saprotrophic growth on wood with the ability to degrade both lignin and cellulose. There is almost no genomic or transcriptomic information on the saprotrophic abilities of this fungus. In this study, we present the fungal transcriptomic profiles during saprotrophic growth on rubber wood.

Results

A total of 266.6 million RNA-Seq reads were generated from six libraries of the fungus growing either on rubber wood or without wood. De novo assembly produced 34, 518 unigenes with an average length of 2179 bp. Annotation

SUBMITTER: Oghenekaro AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4791870 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature