biologia plantarum

Biologia plantarum 67:189-199, 2023 | DOI: 10.32615/bp.2023.026

Progress of transcriptome sequencing of woody oil plants

F.J. Liu¹, M.M. Zhang^{2, 3}, C.H. Liu¹, G. Liu^{1, 4, *}, S. Yu^{4, 5, *}

¹ College of Advanced Agriculture and Ecological Environment, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, P.R. China

² Engineering Research Center of Agricultural Microbiology Technology, Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150500, P.R. China

³ Heilongjiang Provincial Key of Ecological Restoration and Resource Utilization for Cold Region, School of Life Sciences, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, P.R. China

⁴ State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, P.R. China

⁵ Key Laboratory of Saline-alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration, Ministry of Education, College of Life Science, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, P.R. China

Transcriptome is a collection of mRNA transcripts in a specific physiological state which has become one of the hotspots in biological research to evaluate the genes and networks in different kinds of plants. Transcriptome sequencing technology dates back to 1964 and has nearly 60 years of history. At present, the research mainly focuses on cultivating, breeding, molecular markers, and gene mining. With the increase in oil price, woody oil production can alleviate oil demand, but there are few review articles and molecular biology studies on the transcriptome of woody oil plants. In the past few decades, woody oil plants have made great progress in the development of transcriptome sequencing and bioinformatics. In this review, we reviewed the development history of sequencing technology and the research on the transcriptome of woody oil plants, mainly introducing the germplasm resources, molecular markers, and the application of important functional genes in woody oil plants. This paper not only provides ideas for mining functional genes of oil plants but also provides a reference for molecular breeding research of woody oil plants in the future.

Keywords: gene mining, germplasm resources, molecular markers, transcriptome sequencing technology, woody oil plants.

Received: February 2, 2023; Revised: May 8, 2023; Accepted: June 5, 2023; Published online: August 3, 2023  Show citation