transcriptome of storage and basal clove of garlic bulbs

The garlic landrace of 'Chalingzipisuan' was used for transcriptome analysis. The axillary bud of garlic is at the base of clove, whereas the storage leaf at the upper clove provides essential nutrition for the germination and seedling growth. Therefore, the basal and storage clove were ere separately performed for RNA sequencing from the bulbs under three different developmental stages (i.e., enlarging growth, dormancy, and germination), generating in total 77-85 million reads. Overall design: The basal and storage clove collected from three developmental stages were separately performed for RNA sequencing. Three biological replicates of each treatment were used. Therefore, a total of 18 samples were performed for RNA sequencing.