Castanea mollissima Transcriptome or Gene expression

Dynamics of corm enlargement is relatively poorly known in the Chinese chestnut, and it can be suitable as a model plant to study corm enlargement. Just like the other storage organs,corm is also an important edible product, and the developmental processes of this kind of storage organ are regulated by genes. Expressions of these genes affect the formation of corm. Althoughmuch work in other species has partially described the above processes, and many storageorgan regulated genes have been documented, but the expression of genes which affect cormformation in Chinese chestnut have not been studied in detail. Tag sequencing techniquehas been established as an efficient approach to study gene expression in different environmentalconditions. For some vegetables, a lot of important genes involved in plant critical metabolismshave been successfully identified by this technique. In this study, DEGs from four developmentalstages of Chinese chestnut corm were sequenced and analyzed with aim to comprehensivelyunderstand the processes of corm formation and development at molecular level.