Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

High Quality de Novo Transcriptome Assembly of Croton tiglium

Published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Croton tiglium is one of more than 1,200 different species in the large genus Croton, belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae (Kalwij, 2012; The Plant List, 2014). C. tiglium can be found in subtropical and tropical regions on both hemispheres (Salatino et al., 2007). This plant was first mentioned in the medical literature over 2,200 years ago in Ch...