Expression profiles of Eleocharis dulci during corm development

A comparative time-course transcriptome analysis of corm development revealed different patterns of gene expression between cultivated and wild Eleocharis dulcis accessions with the highest number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) at the middle swelling stage and some of the DEGs were significantly enriched for starch metabolic process. Our sampling strategy encompassed four distinct stages of corm development, i.e. Stage 1 (S1, initial swelling stage), Stage 2 (S2, middle swelling stage), Stage 3 (S3, late swelling stage), and Stage 4 (S4, maturity stage). The samples of each stage included three biological replicates. Raw reads were generated by the DNBSEQ-T7 platform.