Vaccinium virgatum breed:Rabbiteye | cultivar:Velluto Blue Raw sequence reads. Vaccinium virgatum breed:Rabbiteye | cultivar:Velluto Blue

This transcriptomics experiment was designed to help understand how gene expression patterns of structural enzymes and their transcriptional regulators affect secondary metabolism and metabolite profiles in different blueberry species. Breeding cultivars with improved flavonoid content or composition could improve their value fresh fruit market and also contribute to the development of new processed blueberry products. Berries were derived from cultivated collections of hexaploid Vaccinium hexaploid virgatum (Rabbiteye) ‘Velluto Blue’. Fruit was harvested at five different developmental stages.