Comparative Transcriptome Analysis in Eggplant Reveals Selection Trends during Eggplant Domestication.

ABSTRACT: Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an economically and nutritionally important fruit crop of the Solanaceae family, which was domesticated in India and southern China. However, the genome regions subjected to selective sweeps in eggplant remain unknown. In the present study, we performed comparative transcriptome analysis of cultivated and wild eggplant species with emphasis on the selection pattern during domestication. In total, 44,073 (S. sisymbriifolium) to 58,677 (S. melongena cultivar S58) unigenes were generated for the six eggplant accessions with total lengths of 36.6-46 Mb. The orthologous genes were assessed using the ratio of nonsynonymous (K _a) to synonymous (K _s) nucleotide substitutions to characterize selective patter

SUBMITTER: Wei Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6532321 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature