Transcriptome Sequencing of Acacia auriculiformis and Acacia mangium

Acacia auriculiformis x Acacia mangium hybrids are commercially important trees for the timber and pulp industry in Southeast Asia. Increasing pulp yield while reducing pulping costs are major objectives of tree breeding programs. The general monolignol biosynthesis and wood-related pathways are well-characterized but genes in these pathways are poorly characterized in Acacia hybrids. RNA-seq on short-read platforms for A. auriculiformis and A. mangium is a rapid approach for obtaining comprehensive transcriptomic data and to discover informative sequence variants.