Transcriptomic Analysis During the Induction of Somatic Embryogenesis in Coffea canephora

Omic tools have changed the way of doing research in experimental biology. The somatic embryogenesis (SE) study has not been immune to this benefit. The transcriptomic tools have been used to compare the genes expressed during the induction of SE with the genes expressed in zygotic embryogenesis or to compare the development of the different stages embryos go through. It has also been used to compare the expression of genes during the development of calli from which SE is induced, as well as many other applications. The protocol described here is employed in our laboratory to extract RNA and generate several transcriptomes for the study of SE on Coffea canephora.