Alternative splicing during fruit development among fleshy fruits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alternative splicing (AS) is an important mechanism of posttranscriptional modification and dynamically regulates multiple physiological processes in plants, including fruit ripening. However, little is known about alternative splicing during fruit development in fleshy fruits.

Results

We studied the alternative splicing at the immature and ripe stages during fruit development in cucumber, melon, papaya and peach. We found that 14.96-17.48% of multiexon genes exhibited alternative splicing. Intron retention was not always the most frequent event, indicating that the alternative splicing pattern during different developmental process differs. Alternative splicing was significantly more prevalent at the ripe stage than at the immature stage in cucumber and melon, wh

SUBMITTER: Yan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8547070 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature