title: RNA-Seq of Cucumis sativus roots: seedling roots
design: RNA-seq transcriptome library was prepared following TruSeqTM RNA sample preparation Kit from Illumina (San Diego, CA) using 1 g of total RNA. Shortly, the messenger RNA was isolated according to polyA selection method by oligo (dT) beads and then fragmented by fragmentation buffer firstly. Secondly, the double-stranded cDNA was synthesized using a SuperScript double-stranded cDNA synthesis kit (Invitrogen, CA) with random hexamer primers (Illumina). Then the synthesized cDNA was subjected to end-repair, phosphorylation and A base addition according to Illuminas library construction protocol. Libraries were size selected for cDNA target fragments of 300 bp on 2% Low Range Ultra Agarose followed by PCR amplification using Phusion DNA polymerase (NEB) for 15 PCR cycles. After a quantification by TBS380, the paired-end RNA-seq sequencing library was sequenced on the Illumina HiSeq XTen/NovaSeq 6000 platforms (2  150 bp read length).