Transcriptome Assembly and Expression Data from Normal and Mantled Oil Palm Fruit

Abstract EN

We performed RNA sequencing of fruit from three normal and three mantled (somaclonal variant affecting flower development) oil palm plants using a 454 pyrosequencer.

The three normal fruit samples were combined and sequenced, generating 237 748 reads.

The three mantled fruit samples were combined and sequenced giving 231 438 reads.

The reads were assembled into 13 984 sequences that were clustered into 10 218 genes or gene families.

This paper describes the generation of this transcriptome database and includes annotation of these genes from Blast2GO and blast results against the Arabidopsis protein database as well as identification of putative transcription factors.

In addition to this, the expression values for each gene sequence of the normal samples are presented.

This dataset will be of use to anyone working in oil palm genetics.