Transcriptomic profiling yielded 63,106 unigenes from Pinellia ternata, a medicinal plant. The dataset, created by Yanyan Pei and last updated in April 2026, identifies key enzyme and transcription factor genes involved in alkaloid synthesis pathways. Functional verification was conducted via gene overexpression experiments in plant callus.
Use Cases
- Identify differentially expressed genes in alkaloid biosynthesis based on transcriptomic profiling of two cultivated varieties.
- Predict putative alkaloid biosynthetic pathways based on reference sequences and annotated secondary metabolic pathways.
- Validate gene function in alkaloid metabolism based on overexpression experiments in Pinellia ternata callus.
- Screen for key enzyme genes (e.g., MAO, NCS I, NCS II, TyrAT) involved in monoterpenoid indole and benzylisoquinoline alkaloid pathways.
Strengths
- Includes results from functional verification via gene overexpression experiments.
- Transcriptomic profiling produced 63,106 unigenes, many mapped to secondary metabolic pathways.
- Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- The 98.1 KB file size suggests a limited scope of data.
Provenance
- Source
- figshare
- Collection Method
- LC-MS analysis and transcriptome sequencing of Pinellia ternata varieties, followed by gene overexpression in callus.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 05:28:21; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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