Musa acuminata strain:Cavendish Transcriptome or Gene expression

Banana (Musa) is one of the most important crops grown in tropical and sub-tropical areas. Cavendish, the most widely grown banana cultivar, is a triploid derived from an intra-species cross. Cavendish is relatively resistant to Race 1 of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Cubense (Foc1) which caused wide spread Panama disease during 1960s but is susceptible to Race 4 of Foc (Foc4) which has been causing epidemics in large areas of banana fields in Asia and Australia in the last decade and is threatening world banana production. The genome of the diploid species Musa acuminata (AA) which is the ancestor of a majority of cultivated banana has recently been sequenced. Availability of banana transcriptomes will be highly useful for improving banana genome annotation and assembly and for banana biological research.香蕉（芭蕉属Musa）是热带与亚热带地区重要的经济作物之一。华蕉（Cavendish）是当前全球种植最广泛的香蕉栽培品种，其为种内杂交产生的三倍体。华蕉对尖孢镰刀菌古巴专化型（Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Cubense，简称Foc）1号生理小种（Foc1）具有一定抗性，该病原菌曾于20世纪60年代引发大面积巴拿马病暴发；但华蕉对尖孢镰刀菌古巴专化型4号生理小种（Foc4）易感，近十年来Foc4已在亚洲与澳大利亚的大片香蕉种植区引发病害流行，正威胁全球香蕉产业。作为多数栽培香蕉祖先的二倍体物种小果野芭蕉（Musa acuminata，基因组型AA），其全基因组序列已于近期完成测序。香蕉转录组（transcriptome）数据的获取，将对优化香蕉基因组注释与组装、推动香蕉生物学研究具有重要价值。