Project description:To explore the influence of virus-accumulation on garlic growth, we produced a virus-free garlic using the landrace “Chalingzipisuan” with great accumulation of viruses, based on the shoot-tip culture. Then, using the viruses-accumulated garlic and corresponding virus-free garlic, we performed a transcriptomic investigation for the enlarging-growth bulbs, and identified 1,182 garlic genes with differential expression, suggesting these genes involved in the response to viruses-infection
