Transcriptomic analysis of flower induction for long-day pitaya by supplementary lighting in short-day winter season.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pitayas are currently attracting considerable interest as a tropical fruit with numerous health benefits. However, as a long-day plant, pitaya plants cannot flower in the winter season from November to April in Hainan, China. To harvest pitayas with high economic value in the winter season, it is necessary to provide supplementary lighting at night to induce flowering. To further explore the molecular regulating mechanisms of flower induction in pitaya plants exposed to supplementary lighting, we used de novo RNA sequencing-based transcriptomic analysis for four stages of pitaya plants subjected to light induction.

Results

We assembled 68,113 unigenes in total, comprising 29,782 unigenes with functional annotations in the NR database, 20,716 annotations in SwissPr

SUBMITTER: Xiong R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7191803 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature