De novo Assembly and Characterization of the Floral Transcriptomes of Two Varieties of Melastoma malabathricum.

ABSTRACT: Melastoma malabathricum is an important medicinal and landscape plant that is globally distributed in temperate and subtropical regions. However, available genomic information for the entire Melastomataceae family is notably limited. In view of the application potential of floral parts in secondary metabolite extraction, we characterized for the first time the floral transcriptomes of two key M. malabathricum varieties, purple variety and white variety. Our transcriptome assembly generated 52,498 and 49,380 unigenes with an N50 of 1,906 and 1,929 bases for the purple and white varieties, respectively. Comparative analysis of two transcriptomes demonstrated that they are highly similar but also highlighted genes that are presumably lineage specific, which explains the phenotypes of each var

SUBMITTER: Zheng T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594232 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature