High-throughput analysis and characterization of Ziziphus jujube transcriptome jujube witches’ broom phytoplasma infected Fan Xinping1,*, Qiao Yongsheng1, Han Yuanhuai2, Tian Jianbao1, Wang Guoping1, Tian Xin1, Xiao Rong1, Li Jie1, Bertaccini Assunta3 1Institute of Pomology, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Taigu, China 2Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu, China 3Department of Agricultural Sciences (DipSA), Plant Pathology, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy *Corresponding author e-mail: Xinping Fan (GSSFXP-919@163.com)
Online published on 2 January, 2015. Abstract Jujube witches’ broom disease caused devastating damages in some Chinese orchards. To study this disease, transcriptome sequencing was used for obtaining information on gene expression that can greatly facilitate studies of this plant species for which a sequenced genome is not available. In the present study 45,132 unigenes were identified from contigs dataset, and functional annotation was carried out in different systems. The results show the presence of some pathogenesisrelated pathways in jujube during phytoplasma infection. Top Keywords High-throughput analysis, jujube witches’ broom phytoplasma, transcriptome sequence. Top |