Genome-wide transcriptome analysis reveals molecular pathways involved in leafy head formation of Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa).

ABSTRACT: Chinese cabbage plants go through seedling and rosette stages before forming their leafy head. Chinese cabbage plants resemble pak-choi plants at their seedling stage, but in their rosette stage the leaves of Chinese cabbage differentiate, as they increase in size with shorter petioles. In order to understand the molecular pathways that play a role in leafy head formation, transcript abundance of young emerging leaves was profiled during development of two Chinese cabbage genotypes and a single pak-choi genotype. The two Chinese cabbages differed in many aspects, among others earliness, leaf size and shape, leaf numbers, and leafy head shape. Genome-wide transcriptome analysis clearly separated the seedling stages of all three genotypes together with the later stages from pak-choi, from th

SUBMITTER: Sun X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6885048 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature