title: Control-30
design: The melon fruits grafted on two pumpkin rootstocks namely Tianzhen No. 1 and Sizhuang No. 12 and non-grafted control plants were harvested at different developmental stages. The fruit developmental stages were set at 10, 20, 30, and 40 DAP, which represent fruit set (S1; 10 DAP), fruit growth (S2; 20 DAP), maturation (S3; 30 DAP), and ripening (S4; 40 DAP) stages, respectively. The samples collected from the grafting combinations and non-grafted control from four developmental stages were used for RNA-seq analysis.