apricot fruit transcriptome sequencing. Prunus armeniaca

Apricot fruit has great economic value. However, due to the difficulty of breeding technology, its development is limited. Seedlings can enrich the breeding materials of fruit trees. By combining traditional breeding methods with seedlings, the breeding process can be accelerated. One seedling of apricot, named Us, had bigger size from the original variety. Therefore, RNA-Seq was used to analyze the difference of gene expression patterns between seedlings and original cultivars during the development of apricot fruits from young fruit stage to mature stage.