RNA-seq analysis for plant carnivory gene discovery in Nepenthes × ventrata

Wan Nor Adibah Wan Zakaria; Kok-Keong Loke; Hoe-Han Goh; Normah Mohd Noor

doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2015.11.007

RNA-seq analysis for plant carnivory gene discovery in Nepenthes × ventrata

Genom Data. 2015 Nov 10:7:18-9. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2015.11.007. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Authors

Wan Nor Adibah Wan Zakaria¹, Kok-Keong Loke¹, Hoe-Han Goh¹, Normah Mohd Noor¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Systems Biology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia.

Abstract

Carnivorous plants have the ability to capture and digest insects for nutrients, which allows them to survive in land deprived of nitrogenous nutrients. Nepenthes spp. are one of the carnivorous plants, which uniquely produce pitcher from the tip of an elongated leaf. This study provides the first transcriptome resource from pitcher of a Nepenthes ventricosa × Nepenthes alata hybrid, Nepenthes × ventrata to understand carnivory mechanism in Nepenthes spp., as well as in other carnivorous species. Raw reads and the transcriptome assembly project have been deposited to SRA database with the accession numbers SRX1389337 (day 0 control), SRX1389392 (day 3 longevity), and SRX1389395 (day 3 chitin-treated).

Keywords: Carnivorous plant; Digestive enzyme; Nepenthes; Pitcher; Transcriptome.