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The first Illumina-based de novo transcriptome sequencing and analysis of safflower flowers.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Lulin Huang, Xiao Yang, Pei Sun, Wen Tong, Shangqin Hu
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BACKGROUND: The safflower, Carthamus tinctorius L., is a worldwide oil crop, and its flowers, which have a high flavonoid content, are an important medicinal resource against cardiovascular disease in traditional medicine. Because the safflower has a large and complex genome, the development of its genomic resources has been delayed. Second-generation Illumina sequencing is now an efficient route for generating...
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