Transcriptome responses in the abscission, distal and proximal regions of the flower pedicel during shedding of flower in Euphorbia pulcherrima

The aim of this study is to assess the global transcriptome changes during the shedding of the flower, which normally takes around 6 or 7 days. We selected four time points (from day 0 to day 6) and three different tissues within the flower bud; distal, abscission and proximal zones with three biological replicates. RNA extraction, library prep and paired end sequencing was performed. Our special interest is try to describe the changes in the abscission zone and the two adjacent tissues in order to get a whole picture of the shedding process. We performed a de novo assembly by Trinity and detected the transcripts and expression changes across spatial and temporal comparisons.