Transcriptional profiling of chickpea genes differentially regulated in response to high-salinity, cold and drought.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cultivated chickpea (Cicer arietinum) has a narrow genetic base making it difficult for breeders to produce new elite cultivars with durable resistance to major biotic and abiotic stresses. As an alternative to genome mapping, microarrays have recently been applied in crop species to identify and assess the function of putative genes thought to be involved in plant abiotic stress and defence responses. In the present study, a cDNA microarray approach was taken in order to determine if the transcription of genes, from a set of previously identified putative stress-responsive genes from chickpea and its close relative Lathyrus sativus, were altered in chickpea by the three abiotic stresses; drought, cold and high-salinity. For this, chickpea genotypes known to be tolerant

SUBMITTER: Mantri NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2025592 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature