Pear sequencing

Pears are one of the most essential fruit worldwide, they are susceptible to Penicillium expansum infection during postharvest storage, which results in high economic losses. RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) is one of the recent techniques which used the high-throughput sequencing method for identifying differentially expressed genes between two samples and has become a powerful method for studying the transcriptome. However, the application of transcriptomics technology in postharvest pathology lags behind than other related fields. This information can bring a new perspective to study the molecular mechanism of postharvest fruit-pathogens interaction.