title: Comparative transcriptomics and comprehensive marker resource development in mulberry.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  High potential of Morus laevigata and Morus serrata has been proposed in the breeding programs for Morus sp. However, due to the lack of dense molecular markers this goal is still in its nascent stage and not yet realized. We thus, sequenced the transcriptomes of these two wild Morus species and utilized the data for marker development.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We generated 87.0 and 80.3 Mb of transcriptome data from M. laevigata and M. serrata, respectively. The transcriptomes from M. laevigata and M. serrata, were assembled into 95,181 and 85,269 transcripts, respectively, and annotated. We identified around 24,049 Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs), 1,201,326 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) and 67,875 Insertion-Deletions (InDels). The variants having a higher impact were also identified and their effect was further investigated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The transcriptome resource from the wildly growing mulberry species developed in this study can find wide applicability in gene identification and/or characterization. It can also contribute immensely in the existing mulberry improvement programs.
authors: Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 110021, India. bushra.saeed1@gmail.com.
authors: Bushra
authors: B
authors: Saeed
authors: Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 110021, India. vinaydu@gmail.com.
authors: Vinay K
authors: VK
authors: Baranwal
authors: Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 110021, India. param@genomeindia.org.
authors: Paramjit
authors: P
authors: Khurana
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; D063990:Gene Ontology; D005819:Genetic Markers; D005838:Genotype; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D031625:Morus / Q000235:genetics*; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers