{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Kulesza E"],"funding":["Mondelez International, Inc","National Institute of Food and Agriculture"],"pagination":["601"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11201900"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["24(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Theobroma cacao, the cocoa tree, is a tropical crop grown for its highly valuable cocoa solids and fat which are the basis of a 200-billion-dollar annual chocolate industry. However, the long generation time and difficulties associated with breeding a tropical tree crop have limited the progress of breeders to develop high-yielding disease-resistant varieties. Development of marker-assisted breeding methods for cacao requires discovery of genomic regions and specific alleles of genes encoding important traits of interest. To accelerate gene discovery, we developed a gene atlas composed of a large dataset of replicated transcriptomes with the long-term goal of progressing breeding towards developing high-yielding elite varieties of cacao.<h4>Results</h4>We describe the cr"],"journal":["BMC plant biology"],"pubmed_title":["The cacao gene atlas: a transcriptome developmental atlas reveals highly tissue-specific and dynamically-regulated gene networks in Theobroma cacao L."],"pmcid":["PMC11201900"],"funding_grant_id":["Project #PEN04707"],"pubmed_authors":["Maximova SN","Kulesza E","Shalit-Kaneh A","Pasha A","Wafula E","Provart N","dePamphilis C","Esteban E","Knollenberg B","Praul C","Prewitt SF","Guiltinan MJ","Thomas P","Landherr L","Winters N"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The cacao gene atlas: a transcriptome developmental atlas reveals highly tissue-specific and dynamically-regulated gene networks in Theobroma cacao L.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Theobroma cacao, the cocoa tree, is a tropical crop grown for its highly valuable cocoa solids and fat which are the basis of a 200-billion-dollar annual chocolate industry. However, the long generation time and difficulties associated with breeding a tropical tree crop have limited the progress of breeders to develop high-yielding disease-resistant varieties. Development of marker-assisted breeding methods for cacao requires discovery of genomic regions and specific alleles of genes encoding important traits of interest. To accelerate gene discovery, we developed a gene atlas composed of a large dataset of replicated transcriptomes with the long-term goal of progressing breeding towards developing high-yielding elite varieties of cacao.<h4>Results</h4>We describe the cr","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Jun","modification":"2026-06-01T11:31:04.622Z","creation":"2026-04-08T11:50:45.424Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11201900","cross_references":{"pubmed":["38926852"],"doi":["10.1186/s12870-024-05171-9"]}}