title: De novo transcriptome assembly of two different Prunus salicina cultivars.
abstract: Plum is a globally grown stone fruit and can be divided into several species. In particular, the Prunus salicina, which is native to China, is widely grown in many fruit orchards in Korea and Japan, as well as the United States and Australia. The transcriptome data for Prunus salicina has not been reported to our knowledge. In this study, we performed de novo transcriptome assembly for two selected P. salicina cultivars referred to as Akihime and Formosa (commercially important plum cultivars in Korea) using next generation sequencing. We obtained a total of 9.04 GB and 8.68 GB raw data from Akihime and Formosa, respectively. De novo transcriptome assembly using Trinity revealed 155,169 and 160,186 transcripts for Akihime and Formosa. Next, we identified 121,278 and 116,544 proteins from Akihime and Formosa using TransDecoder. We performed BLASTP against the NCBI non-redundant (nr) dataset to annotate proteins. Taken together, this is the first transcriptome data for P. salicina to our knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Yeonhwa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jo
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lian
authors.affiliation: Department of Fruit Tree, Korea National College of Agriculture and Fisheries, Jeonju 560-500, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jin Kyong
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hoseong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hyosub
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Won Kyong
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Cho
keywords: Cultivar; Plum; Prunus salicina; RNA-Seq; Transcriptome