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De Novo Transcriptome Of Safflower And The Identification Of Putative Genes For Oleosin And The Biosynthesis Of Flavonoids, Haiyan Li, Yuanyuan Dong, Jing Yang, Xiuming Liu, Yanfang Wang, Na Yao, Lili Guan, Nan Wang, Jinyu Wu, Xiaokun Li
De Novo Transcriptome Of Safflower And The Identification Of Putative Genes For Oleosin And The Biosynthesis Of Flavonoids, Haiyan Li, Yuanyuan Dong, Jing Yang, Xiuming Liu, Yanfang Wang, Na Yao, Lili Guan, Nan Wang, Jinyu Wu, Xiaokun Li
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Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is one of the most extensively used oil crops in the world. However, little is known about how its compounds are synthesized at the genetic level. In this study, Solexa-based deep sequencing on seed, leaf and petal of safflower produced a de novo transcriptome consisting of 153,769 unigenes. We annotated 82,916 of the unigenes with gene annotation and assigned functional terms and specific pathways to a subset of them. Metabolic pathway analysis revealed that 23 unigenes were predicted to be responsible for the biosynthesis of flavonoids and 8 were characterized as seed-specific oleosins. In addition, a …