Bioinformatic analysis of fruit-specific expressed sequence tag libraries of 'Diospyros kaki' Thunb. view at the transcriptome at different developmental stages

  • Jennifer Ann Harikrishna
  • , Zhengrong Luo
  • , Gaurav Sablok
  • , Chun Luo
  • , Wan Sin Lee
  • , Farzana Rahman
  • , Tatiana V. Tatarinova

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    Abstract

    We present here a systematic analysis of the 'Diospyros kaki' expressed sequence tags (ESTs) generated from development stage-specific libraries. A total of 2,529 putative tentative unigenes were identified in the MF library whereas the OYF library displayed 3,775 tentative unigenes. Among the two cDNA libraries, 325 EST-Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in 296 putative unigenes were detected in the MF library showing an occurrence of 11.7% with a frequency of 1 SSR/3.16 kb whereas the OYF library had an EST-SSRs occurrence of 10.8% with 407 EST-SSRs in the 352 putative unigenes with a frequency of 1 SSR/2.92 kb. We observed a higher frequency of SNPs and indels in the OYF library (20.94 SNPs/indels per 100 bp) in comparison to MF library showed a relatively lower frequency (0.74 SNPs/indels per 100 bp). A combined homology and secondary structure analysis approach identified a potential miRNA precursor, an ortholog of miR159, and potential miR159 targets, in the development-specific ESTs of 'D. kaki'.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)35-45
    Journal3 Biotech
    Volume1
    Issue number1
    Early online date21 Apr 2011
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 31 Jul 2011

    Bibliographical note

    Note: This work was supported bythe Special Scientific Research Fund of Agricultural Public Welfare Profession of China [grant number:200903044]

    Keywords

    • Biological sciences

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