PRJNA389361
Ananas comosus var. bracteatus cultivar:Ananas comosus var. bracteatus Raw sequence reads
Ananas comosus var. bracteatus is cultivated commercially as an ornamental plant because of its colorful chimera leaves. The chimera leaves consist of normal green cells and albino white cells. Of note, the chimeric character of the leaves in cultivated plants is not stable. We undertook transcriptome sequencing of the complete green cells (CGr) and the complete white cells (CWh), provided a frame of transcription variations between CGr and CWh plants that most likely result in the development of albino leaf cells. Small RNA libraries were constructed at different developmental stages of CWh and CGr leaves to elucidate the functional and regulatory roles of miRNAs in the development of albino cells in leaves of A. comosus var. bracteatus.