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- Title
Estimating Transcriptome Diversity and Specialization in Capsicum annuum L.
- Authors
Ochoa-Alejo, Neftalí; Reyes-Valdés, M. Humberto; Martínez, Octavio
- Abstract
Chili pepper fruits of the genus Capsicum represent excellent experimental models to study the growth, development, and ripening processes in a non-climacteric species at the physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels. Fruit growth, development, and ripening involve a complex, harmonious, and finely controlled regulation of gene expression. The purpose of this study was to estimate the changes in transcriptome diversity and specialization, as well as gene specificities during fruit development in this crop, and to illustrate the advantages of estimating these parameters. To achieve these aims, we programmed and made publicly available an R package. In this study, we applied these methods to a set of 179 RNA-Seq libraries from a factorial experiment that includes 12 different genotypes at various stages of fruit development. We found that the diversity of the transcriptome decreases linearly from the flower to the mature fruit, while its specialization follows a complex and non-linear behavior during this process. Additionally, by defining sets of genes with different degrees of specialization and applying Gene Ontology enrichment analysis, we identified processes, functions, and components that play a central role in particular fruit development stages. In conclusion, the estimation of diversity, specialization, and specificity summarizes the global properties of the transcriptomes, providing insights that are difficult to achieve by other means.
- Subjects
CAPSICUM annuum; GENETIC regulation; TRANSCRIPTOMES; FRUIT development; HOT peppers; FACTORIAL experiment designs; PEPPERS
- Publication
Plants (2223-7747), 2024, Vol 13, Issue 7, p983
- ISSN
2223-7747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/plants13070983