Pyrus Transcriptome or Gene expression

Pears (Pyrus spp. L.) constitute an important genus of trees that produce one of the world's oldest fruit crops. Salinity stress is a common limiting factor for plant productivity that significantly affects the flavor and nutritional quality of pear fruits. However, litter is known about the molecular mechanisms that govern the relationship between salt stress calcium signaling pathways in these plants. The available genomic information for pears has promoted much functional genomic analysis and molecular breeding of the genus. To characterize the transcriptome of pear under salt stress, a high-throughput Illumina RNA-seq technology was employed in this study.