The reference genome and abiotic stress responses of the model perennial grass Brachypodium sylvaticum.

ABSTRACT: Perennial grasses are important forage crops and emerging biomass crops and have the potential to be more sustainable grain crops. However, most perennial grass crops are difficult experimental subjects due to their large size, difficult genetics, and/or their recalcitrance to transformation. Thus, a tractable model perennial grass could be used to rapidly make discoveries that can be translated to perennial grass crops. Brachypodium sylvaticum has the potential to serve as such a model because of its small size, rapid generation time, simple genetics, and transformability. Here, we provide a high-quality genome assembly and annotation for B. sylvaticum, an essential resource for a modern model system. In addition, we conducted transcriptomic studies under 4 abiotic stresses (water, heat,

SUBMITTER: Lei L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755203 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature