Abstract
Klutuk Wulung banana (Musa balbisiana Colla, BB Group) is a climacteric fruit whose ripening is influenced by ethylene production. This banana fruit has a relatively slow ripening process time and long shelf-life compared with A genome banana (Musa acuminata, AA). Bananas are usually harvested at a pre-climacteric stage and ripened artificially by exogenous ethylene. Hence, the application of exogenous ethylene at the pre-climacteric stage can accelerate the Klutuk Wulung banana ripening. However, there is no report regarding the effect of exogenous ethylene treatment on Klutuk Wulung banana global gene expression. The knowledge of global gene expression of ethylene treated Klutuk Wulung banana will help to understand this fruit ripening process. In this study, global gene expression data of untreated and ethylene treated Klutuk Wulung banana fruit during ripening were available. Total RNA was extracted from fruit pulp for differential expressed gene analysis using RNA-Seq. The RNA-Seq results obtained were ranged from 34,565,252 to 44,752,129 total reads, with 80.5% to 86.7% of reads were mapped against Klutuk Wulung banana genome reference derived from The Banana Genome Hub. In total, 29,968,128 to 37,776,907 transcripts were detected. The transcriptome data discussed in this article were deposited into NCBI's Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) Series with an accession number GSE162077. These data can be used as information to identify gene candidates involved in fruit ripening for the application in banana postharvest program.