We studied Eleutherococcus senticosus Maxim. early somatic embryogenesis regulation.
High-throughput RNA sequencing of its transcriptome yielded 75,803 unigenes.
Gene annotation showed that SE initiation affected gene expression in KEGG pathways.
Viz., in metabolic pathways, secondary metabolite biosynthesis, hormone signaling
The differentially expressed genes might be molecular markers of early SE.