Comparative RNA-Seq analysis of two Chinese chestnut species to provide insights into their susceptibility and resistance to gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus infestation

Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima BL.), a famous fruit tree with high nutrition in its nuts, is seriously infested by gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus (GWDK) that results in gall formation and great loss of their production and economy. However, the physiological and molecular mechanism of GWDK resistance remains elusive, herein, a time series RNA-seq integrated with metabolomic profiling experiment were studied to investigated the morphological and transcriptome differences of chestnut response to GWDK infestation