RNA-Seq analysis and annotation of a draft blueberry genome assembly identifies candidate genes involved in fruit ripening, biosynthesis of bioactive compounds, and stage-specific alternative splicing

GigaScience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gupta, Vikas ^a,b   Estrada, April D ^a   Blakley, Ivory ^a   Reid, Rob ^a   Patel, Ketan ^a,d   Meyer, Mason D ^a   Andersen, Stig U ^b   Brown, Allan F ^c   Lila, Mary A ^c   Loraine, Ann E ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NMRC Frederick   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Blueberry; Fruit ripening; Genome; Metabolic pathways; RNA Seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; BIOACTIVE COMPOUND; BIXIN; CYANOGENIC GLYCOSIDE; DHURRIN; ETHYLENE; NATURAL PRODUCTS AND THEIR SYNTHETIC DERIVATIVES; PLANT GLYCOSIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; PLANT RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLUEBERRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWN REGULATION; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT RIPENING; FUNCTIONAL ANNOTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ASSEMBLY; GRAPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENOME; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FRUIT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VACCINIUM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANTHOCYANINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BLUEBERRY PLANTS; DATABASES, GENETIC; ETHYLENES; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84939429237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2047217X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13742-015-0046-9     Document Type: Article

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