Perigone Lobe Transcriptome Analysis Provides Insights into Rafflesia cantleyi Flower Development.

ABSTRACT: Rafflesia is a biologically enigmatic species that is very rare in occurrence and possesses an extraordinary morphology. This parasitic plant produces a gigantic flower up to one metre in diameter with no leaves, stem or roots. However, little is known about the floral biology of this species especially at the molecular level. In an effort to address this issue, we have generated and characterised the transcriptome of the Rafflesia cantleyi flower, and performed a comparison with the transcriptome of its floral bud to predict genes that are expressed and regulated during flower development. Approximately 40 million sequencing reads were generated and assembled de novo into 18,053 transcripts with an average length of 641 bp. Of these, more than 79% of the transcripts had significant matche

SUBMITTER: Lee XW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5158018 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature