Project name: Carica papaya

Description: For identifying genes for sex determination in papaya, digital gene expression analysis by Ht-SuperSAGE (Matsumura et al., 2010) was carried out in flowers from male, female and hermaphrodite plants of papaya. Total more than 9,273,744 26bp-tags were obtained by sequence analysis using SOLiD3 and mapped on papaya primitive sex chromosome sequences.Overall design: 6 samples examined: male young flowerbud, male mature flower bud, female young flower bud, female mature flower bud, hermaphrodite young flower bud, hermaphrodite mature flower bud

Data type: Transcriptome or Gene expression

Sample scope: Multiisolate

Relevance: Agricultural

Release date: 2012-07-16

Last updated: 2011-07-01