Abstract
Ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer), one of the most widely used medicinal plants in traditional oriental medicine, is used for the treatment of various diseases. Ginseng is typically classified according to its cultivation environment, such as field-cultivated ginseng (FCG) and mountain-cultivated ginseng (MCG). However, little is known about differences in gene expression in ginseng roots between FCG and MCG. In order to investigate the whole transcriptome landscape of ginseng, we employed high-throughput sequencing technologies using the Illumina HiSeqTM2500 system, and generated a large amount of transcriptome data from ginseng roots. Approximately 77 and 87 million high-quality reads were produced via FCG and MCG root transcriptome analysis, respectively, and we obtained 256,032 assembled unigenes with an average length of 1171 bp by de novo assembly methods. Functional annotation of the unigenes was performed using sequence similarity comparisons against the following databases: the non-redundant nucleotide database, the InterPro domains database, the Gene Ontology Consortium database, and the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway database. A total of 4207 unigenes were assigned to specific metabolic pathways, and all of the known enzymes involved in starch and sucrose metabolism pathways were also identified in the KEGG library. This study indicated that alpha-glucan phosphorylase 1, putative pectinesterase/pectinesterase inhibitor 17, beta-amylase, and alpha-glucan phosphorylase isozyme H might be important factors involved in starch and sucrose metabolism between FCG and MCG in different environments.
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Abbreviations
- P. ginseng :
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Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer
- FCG:
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Field-cultivated ginseng
- MCG:
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Mountain-cultivated ginseng
- NGS:
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Next-generation sequencing
- EST:
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Expressed sequence tag
- CDS:
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Coding sequence
- GO:
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Gene Ontology
- DEG:
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Differentially expressed genes
- KEGG:
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Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
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We would like to thank Dr. Woo Jun Sul of the Department of Systems Biotechnology at Chung-Ang University for their constructive comments on the initial manuscript. We would also like to thank Dr. Junsu Ko of Theragen BiO Institute at TheragenEtex for RNA-SEq. library construction.
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Yang, B.W., Hahm, Y.T. Transcriptome analysis using de novo RNA-seq to compare ginseng roots cultivated in different environments. Plant Growth Regul 84, 149–157 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10725-017-0328-6
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