Project description:In this study, we aim to present a global transcriptome analysis of medicinal/spice plant, Crocus sativus. We generated about 206 million high-quality reads from five tissues (corm, leaf, Tepal, stamen and stigma) using Illumina platform. We performed an optimized de novo assembly of the reads and estimated transcript abundance in different tissue samples. The transcriptome dynamics was studied by differential gene expression analyses among tissue samples.
Project description:To uncover the underlying mechanism of temperature-responsive flowering in Crocus sativus and unveil flowering regulatory proteins, iTRAQ (isobaric tags for relative or absolute quantitation)-based proteomics were applied to study the differences in protein expression profiles in flowering and non-flowering saffron grown at room- and low-temperatures, respectively. A total of 5,624 proteins were identified,and 201 proteins showed differential accumulations between the flowering and non-flowering groups.