Abstract
Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) is an important annual or biennial root vegetable crop. The fleshy taproot comprises the main edible portion of the plant with high nutrition and medical value. Molecular biology study of radish begun rather later, and lacks sufficient transcriptomic and genomic data in pubic databases for understanding of the molecular mechanism during the radish taproot formation. To develop a comprehensive overview of the ‘NAU-YH’ root transcriptome, a cDNA library, prepared from three equally mixed RNA of taproots at different developmental stages including pre-cortex splitting stage, cortex splitting stage, and expanding stage was sequenced using high-throughput Illumina RNA sequencing. From approximately 51 million clean reads, a total of 70,168 unigenes with a total length of 50.28 Mb, an average length of 717 bp and a N50 of 994 bp were obtained. In total, 63,991 (about 91.20% of the assembled unigenes) unigenes were successfully annotated in five public databases including NR, GO, COG, KEGG, and Nt. GO analysis revealed that the majority of these unigenes were predominately involved in basic physiological and metabolic processes, catalytic, binding, and cellular process. In addition, a total of 103 unigenes encoding eight enzymes involved in the sucrose metabolism related pathways were also identified by KEGG pathway analysis. Sucrose synthase (29 unigenes), invertase (17 unigenes), sucrose-phosphate synthase (16 unigenes), fructokinase (17 unigenes), and hexokinase (11 unigenes) ranked top five in these eight key enzymes. From which, two genes (RsSuSy1, RsSPS1) were validated by T-A cloning and sequenced, while the expression of six unigenes were profiled with RT-qPCR analysis. These results would be served as an important public reference platform to identify the related key genes during taproot thickening and facilitate the dissection of molecular mechanisms underlying taproot formation in radish.
Highlights
IntroductionThe fleshy taproot is a key organ for the direct yield and quality of radish, and its formation and development is a complex biological processes involving morphogenesis and dry matter accumulation (Wang and He, 2005)
Radish (Raphanus sativus L., 2n = 2x = 18) is an important root vegetable crop belonging to the Brassicaceae family grown all over the world, especially in East Asia (Johnston et al, 2005; Wang and He, 2005)
To obtain an overview of ‘NAU-YH’ transcriptome in taproots, and identify candidate genes involved in sucrose metabolism, a cDNA library was constructed from the RNA of ‘NAUYH’, and sequenced using the Illumina HiSeqTM 2000 sequencing platform
Summary
The fleshy taproot is a key organ for the direct yield and quality of radish, and its formation and development is a complex biological processes involving morphogenesis and dry matter accumulation (Wang and He, 2005). The draft genome sequences of R. sativus have been assembled and published (Kitashiba et al, 2014) These data might provide the useful database for genomic and functional investigation on some important horticultural traits in radish. The resulting data of transcriptome sequencing of this genotype would be useful for further molecular investigation on taproot development
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