Transcriptome analysis of the oriental melon (Cucumis melo L. var. makuwa) during fruit development.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The oriental melon (Cucumis melo L. var. makuwa) is one of the most important cultivated cucurbits grown widely in Korea, Japan, and northern China. It is cultivated because its fruit has a sweet aromatic flavor and is rich in soluble sugars, organic acids, minerals, and vitamins. In order to elucidate the genetic and molecular basis of the developmental changes that determine size, color, and sugar contents of the fruit, we performed de novo transcriptome sequencing to analyze the genes expressed during fruit development.

Results

We identified a total of 47,666 of representative loci from 100,875 transcripts and functionally annotated 33,963 of the loci based on orthologs in Arabidopsis thaliana. Among those loci, we identified 5,173 d

SUBMITTER: Shin AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5217523 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature