Salvia miltiorrhiza transcriptome sequencing

Salvia miltiorrhiza is a well-known medicinal plant that produces many biologically active components, such as tanshinones and salvianolic acid B. In this study, for the first time, we investigated S. miltiorrhiza transcriptome variations in response to abscisic acid (ABA) treatment by using Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT). More than 76 Gb of clean ONT reads were generated from twelve cDNA libraries, and a total of 22,233 genes were detected. The expression pattern of approximately 50% of these genes was changed upon ABA induction, including most genes involved in ABA biosynthesis and ABA signal transduction, which suggests that in plants, multiple ABA signaling-induced cellular processes respond in a coordinated fashion to environmental stress...