Transcriptome profiling of spike provides expression features of genes related to terpene biosynthesis in lavender.

ABSTRACT: Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is an important economic plant because of the value of its essential oil (EO). The Yili Valley in Xinjiang has become the largest lavender planting base in China. However, there is a lack of research on the gene expression regulation of EO biosynthesis and metabolism in local varieties. Here, de novo transcriptome analysis of inflorescence of three development stages from initial flower bud to flowering stage 50% from two lavender cultivars with contrasting EO production revealed the dynamics of 100,177 differentially expressed transcripts (DETs) in various stages of spike development within and across the cultivars. The lavender transcriptome contained 77 DETs with annotations related to terpenoid biosynthesis. The expression profiles of the 27 genes invo

SUBMITTER: Guo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7181790 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature