Leaf Transcriptome Assembly of (Burseraceae) and Annotation of Terpene Biosynthetic Genes

Overview

Journal Genes (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2019 May 25

PMID 31121954

Citations 2

Authors

Gabriel Damasco

Vikram S Shivakumar

Tracy M Misciewicz

Douglas C Daly

Paul V A Fine

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Abstract

Plants in the Burseraceae are globally recognized for producing resins and essential oils with medicinal properties and have economic value. In addition, most of the aromatic and non-aromatic components of Burseraceae resins are derived from a variety of terpene and terpenoid chemicals. Although terpene genes have been identified in model plant crops (e.g., , ), very few genomic resources are available for non-model groups, including the highly diverse Burseraceae family. Here we report the assembly of a leaf transcriptome of , an aromatic tree that has a large distribution in Central America, describe the functional annotation of putative terpene biosynthetic genes and compare terpene biosynthetic genes found in with those identified in other Burseraceae taxa. The genomic resources of can be used to generate novel sequencing markers for population genetics and comparative phylogenetic studies, and to investigate the diversity and evolution of terpene genes in the Burseraceae.

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