title: RNA-Seq of bamboo shoot
design: otal RNA separation was carried out using Trizol reagents (Invitrogen, Carsland, USA) following the manufacturer's protocol. An RNA quality preliminary test was performed using agarose gel and a NanoPhotometer spectrophotometer (IMPLEN, CA, USA), then the RNA Nano 6000 Assay Kit from the Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100 system (Agilent Technologies, CA, USA) was further used to assess the integrity of the RNA samples. An RNA-Seq library of five different samples was built for transcriptome sequencing. Novogene Co., LTD sequenced the library using Illumina HiSeq 2000 (Illumina, San Diego, CA, USA) to produce 250300 bp paired-end reads.