Transcriptome Analysis of Pinellia integrifolia and PEBP Genes Identification in Related Species

The transcriptome analysis of Pinella integrifolia was carried out in this study to study its bulbil development at molecular level. Approximately 44.12 Mb high-quality clean reads were generated, and 74,550 unigenes that possess an average length of 831 bp were assembled de novo. A total of 44,626 unigenes (59.86%) were annotated in the database, 40,900 unigenes had blasted to the Nr database, and 6,112 and 16,797 unigenes had similar hits in the Gene Ontology (GO) and Cluster of Orthologous Groups (COG) databases, respectively. Results revealed that 31,851 unigenes were assigned to 135 KEGG pathways. Based on transcriptomic data, various members of PEBP gene family were identified in P. integrifolia, A. bulbifer, P. ternata and Colocasia esculenta. These data could be utilized in further research such as explorations of bulbil development in Pinellia. (C) 2018 Friends Science Publishers