| Description |
Scutellaria barbata (Lamiaceae) is an important medicinal herb widely used in China, Korea, India, and other Asian countries. Neo-clerodane diterpenoids are the largest known group of Scutellaria diterpenoids and show promising cytotoxic activity against several cancer cell lines. However, little is known about diterpenoid biosynthetic pathways in Scutellaria species. Here, Illumina-based deep transcriptome analysis of flowers, the aerial parts (leaf and stem), and roots of S. barbata was used to explore terpenoid-related genes. In total, 121,958,564 clean RNA-seq reads were assembled into 88,980 transcripts, with an average length of 1,370 nt and N50 length of 2,144 nt, indicating high assembly quality. |
