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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2015

Transcriptome analysis of Ginkgo biloba kernels.

Bing He, Yincong Gu, Meng Xu, Jianwen Wang, Fuliang Cao, Li-An Xu

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bing HeCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing, China.
Yincong GuCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing, China.
Meng XuCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing, China.
Jianwen WangCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing, China.
Fuliang CaoCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing, China.
Li-An XuCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing, China.
Nanjing Forestry University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ginkgo biloba is a dioecious species native to China with medicinally and phylogenetically important characteristics; however, genomic resources for this species are limited. In this study, we performed the first transcriptome sequencing for Ginkgo kernels at five time points using Illumina paired-end sequencing. Approximately 25.08-Gb clean reads were obtained, and 68,547 unigenes with an average length of 870 bp were generated by de novo assembly. Of these unigenes, 29,987 (43.74%) were annotated in publicly available plant protein database. A total of 3,869 genes were identified as significantly differentially expressed, and enrichment analysis was conducted at different time points. Furthermore, metabolic pathway analysis revealed that 66 unigenes were responsible for terpenoid backbone biosynthesis, with up to 12 up-regulated unigenes involved in the biosynthesis of ginkgolide and bilobalide. Differential gene expression analysis together with real-time PCR experiments indicated that the synthesis of bilobalide may have interfered with the ginkgolide synthesis process in the kernel. These data can remarkably expand the existing transcriptome resources of Ginkgo, and provide a valuable platform to reveal more on developmental and metabolic mechanisms of this species.

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differentially expressed genes (DEGs)Ginkgo bilobakernelterpenoid backbone biosynthesistranscriptome

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