De Novo transcriptome assembly of Zingiber officinale cv. Suruchi of Odisha

Publication date: September 2016 Source:Genomics Data, Volume 9 Author(s): Mahendra Gaur, Aradhana Das, Rajesh Kumar Sahoo, Basudeba Kar, Sanghamitra Nayak, Enketeswara Subudhi Zingiber officinale Rosc., known as ginger, is an Asian crop, popularly used in every household kitchen and commercially used in bakery, beverage, food and pharmaceutical industries. The present study deals with de novo transcriptome assembly of an elite ginger cultivar Suruchi by next generation sequencing methodology. From the analysis 10.9GB raw data was obtained which can be available in NCBI accession number SAMN03761185. We identified 41,969 transcripts using Trinity RNA-Seq from ginger rhizome of Suruchi variety from Odisha. The transcript length varied from 300bp to 8404bp with a total length of 3,96,40,526bp and N50 of 1251bp. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first transcriptome data of an elite ginger cultivar Suruchi released for Odisha state of India which will help molecular biologists to develop genetic markers for identification of cultivars.
Source: Genomics Data - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research