Due to the lack of a Panax japonicus var. major reference genome, we assembled a reference transcriptome from P. japonicus C. A. Mey transcriptome sequencing data, and 203 283 unigenes were obtained. In this study, with the assistance from the Trinity, Bowtie2 and SAMtools softwares, 218 m465 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified by mapping the Illumina sequences to the reference transcriptome. The SNP forms included 126 262 transformations and 92 203 transversions. A large number of SNP loci were associated with triterpenoid s...
