Malus domestica Transcriptome or Gene expression
In an effort to develop high-quality gene model for the apple genome (Malus x domestica), we aligned massively parallel cDNA sequencing reads of 19 apple tissues to the v.1 apple genome. Integration of RNA-Seq allowed us to identify hundreds of transcripts that had been missed by the automatic annotation procedure, to correct predicted gene structures, and to detect a multitude of alternative and trans-splicing events. In addition we sequenced smallRNA from a fruit sample.