“…High-throughput gene expression profiling technologies, especially RNA sequencing, have been increasingly utilized to identify the key genes involved in lipid metabolism or seed development for various plants, such as soybean (Chen et al, 2012; Goettel et al, 2014), peanut (Yin et al, 2013), castor (Brown et al, 2012; Zhang et al, 2016), maize (Lu et al, 2013), Arabidopsis (Le et al, 2010; Belmonte et al, 2013), and rapeseed (Hu et al, 2009; Troncoso-Ponce et al, 2011; Chen et al, 2015; Deng et al, 2015; Xu et al, 2015). Although, considerable research has been devoted to study the molecular mechanism underlying lipid metabolism in various plants, little effort has been made to investigate, at the whole-genome level, dynamic changes of oil biosynthesis genes during seed development in B. napus , which is different from other oil plants in terms of oil content and oil composition.…”