High-throughput analysis and characterization of Ziziphus jujube transcriptome jujube witches’ broom phytoplasma infected

Jujube witches’ broom disease caused devastating damages in some Chinese orchards. To study this disease, transcriptome sequencing was used for obtaining information on gene expression that can greatly facilitate studies of this plant species for which a sequenced genome is not available. In the present study 45,132 unigenes were identified from contigs dataset, and functional annotation was carried out in different systems. The results show the presence of some pathogenesisrelated pathways in jujube during phytoplasma infection.