TY - JOUR AU - Wu, Zhi-Gang AU - Jiang, Wu AU - Mantri, Nitin AU - Bao, Xiao-Qing AU - Chen, Song-Lin AU - Tao, Zheng-Ming PY - 2015 DA - 2015/04/30 TI - Transciptome analysis reveals flavonoid biosynthesis regulation and simple sequence repeats in yam (Dioscorea alata L.) tubers JO - BMC Genomics SP - 346 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Yam (Dioscorea alata L.) is an important tuber crop and purple pigmented elite cultivar has recently become popular because of associated health benefits. Identifying candidate genes responsible for flavonoid biosynthesis pathway (FBP) will facilitate understanding the molecular mechanism of controlling pigment formation in yam tubers. Here, we used Illumina sequencing to characterize the transcriptome of tubers from elite purple-flesh cultivar (DP) and conventional white-flesh cultivar (DW) of yam. In this process, we also designed high quality molecular markers to assist molecular breeding for tuber trait improvement. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1547-8 DO - 10.1186/s12864-015-1547-8 ID - Wu2015 ER -