Temporal Gene Expression Profiles From Pollination to Seed Maturity in Sorghum Provide Core Candidates for Engineering Seed Traits

We report a comprehensive transcriptomics analysis across five temporal stages of pistil and seed development in Sorghum bicolor variety M35-1. Sequencing of fourteen libraries (three replicates from all stages and two replicates from 30 DAP stage) yielded >608 billion paired-end reads. A total of 31337 genes expressed in these five stages of pistil and seed development. Transcriptomic analysis of pistils collected before pollination and four temporal stages of seed development in Sorghum bicolor variety M35-1