Comparing root transcriptomes of cultivated and wild carrots

Cultivated carrot (Daucus carota L. ssp. sativus) was domesticated from wild carrot (Daucus carota L. ssp. carota) with radical different traits. The aim of this study was to compare the root transcriptomes between cultivated and wild carrots for SNP discovery, inferring domestication process, and identifying domestication genes. Six cultivated carrots representing main European carrot root types and five wild carrot populations from widely dispersed sites were used. The root transcriptomes were sequenced with multiplexing paried-end sequencing in Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx.