RNA-Seq of tea plant: differentially expressed genes
The plant materials were five-year-old tea plants (C. sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze cv). To understand the mechanism of sterile floral buds in the tea plant, we obtained a sterile tea plant by artificial hybridization. RNA-seq based transcriptome profiling was carried out in three samples (male parent, female parent and sterile hybrid) to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) related to sterility.