Full-Length Transcriptomes Reconstruction Reveals Intraspecific Diversity in Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) and Smooth Vetch (V. villosa Roth var. glabrescens)
Weiyi Kong, Bohao Geng, Wenhui Yan, Jun Xia, Wenkai Xu, Na Zhao, Zhenfei Guo, Lei Li, Zhonglong Guo · 2024
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Description
Weiyi Kong and eight co-authors present a 2024 study reading the full gene messages of two vetch plants. Hairy vetch and its smooth variety are cover crops and forage legumes of real farm value. Their genomes are large and varied, so the team used full-length transcript reading instead, mixing two sequencing methods. They catalogued the messages each plant produces and compared the two.
Hairy vetch yielded about twenty-nine thousand clean transcripts and smooth vetch about forty-one thousand. Most carried protein recipes and could be matched to known databases. About a quarter of the messages came in spliced variants. Smooth vetch held more unique messages, showing diversity within the species. One gene tied to a chemical pathway showed signs of strong positive selection, possibly driving visible differences. The catalogs support breeding and molecular work on vetches.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Weiyi Kong, Bohao Geng, Wenhui Yan, Jun Xia, Wenkai Xu, Na Zhao, Zhenfei Guo, Lei Li, Zhonglong Guo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |