Characterization the coding and non-coding RNA components in the transcriptome of invasion weed Alternanthera philoxeroides

Alternanthera philoxeroides is a notorious invasive weed worldwide, but it still lacks genome information currently. In this study, we collected 4 groups of A. Illumina RNA-seq data (62.5 Gb) and performed comprehensive de novo assembling. Totally, 421,372 unigenes were obtained with total length 230,842,460 bp, 43,430 (10.31%) longer than 1000 bp. Then 119,222 (28.3%) functional annotated 235,885 (56.0%) grouped into reliable lncRNAs reservoir. Besides, 534 tRNA 234 rRNAs identified in assembly sequences. Additionally, 131,624 microsatellites characterized 106,761 SSR primers developed for the amplification 40,752 36,329 The miRNAs are key post-transcriptional regulators, about 86 candidate miRNA sequences detected from assembly, target genes prediction revealed possible functions them growth development as well stress responding processes. These results provide vital basis sequence-based studies future, especially gene function analysis.