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De novo transcriptome analysis of rose-scented geranium provides insights into the metabolic specificity of terpene and tartaric acid biosynthesis

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Title
De novo transcriptome analysis of rose-scented geranium provides insights into the metabolic specificity of terpene and tartaric acid biosynthesis
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BMC Genomics, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12864-016-3437-0
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Lokesh K. Narnoliya, Girija Kaushal, Sudhir P. Singh, Rajender S. Sangwan

Abstract

Rose-scented geranium (Pelargonium sp.) is a perennial herb that produces a high value essential oil of fragrant significance due to the characteristic compositional blend of rose-oxide and acyclic monoterpenoids in foliage. Recently, the plant has also been shown to produce tartaric acid in leaf tissues. Rose-scented geranium represents top-tier cash crop in terms of economic returns and significance of the plant and plant products. However, there has hardly been any study on its metabolism and functional genomics, nor any genomic expression dataset resource is available in public domain. Therefore, to begin the gains in molecular understanding of specialized metabolic pathways of the plant, de novo sequencing of rose-scented geranium leaf transcriptome, transcript assembly, annotation, expression profiling as well as their validation were carried out. De novo transcriptome analysis resulted a total of 78,943 unique contigs (average length: 623 bp, and N50 length: 752 bp) from 15.44 million high quality raw reads. In silico functional annotation led to the identification of several putative genes representing terpene, ascorbic acid and tartaric acid biosynthetic pathways, hormone metabolism, and transcription factors. Additionally, a total of 6,040 simple sequence repeat (SSR) motifs were identified in 6.8% of the expressed transcripts. The highest frequency of SSR was of tri-nucleotides (50%). Further, transcriptome assembly was validated for randomly selected putative genes by standard PCR-based approach. In silico expression profile of assembled contigs were validated by real-time PCR analysis of selected transcripts. Being the first report on transcriptome analysis of rose-scented geranium the data sets and the leads and directions reflected in this investigation will serve as a foundation for pursuing and understanding molecular aspects of its biology, and specialized metabolic pathways, metabolic engineering, genetic diversity as well as molecular breeding.

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United States 1 2%
Unknown 63 98%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 20%
Researcher 10 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Postgraduate 4 6%
Student > Master 4 6%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 18 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 42%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 20%
Chemistry 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Chemical Engineering 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 19 30%
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