SuperSAGE: the drought stress-responsive transcriptome of chickpea roots.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drought is the major constraint to increase yield in chickpea (Cicer arietinum). Improving drought tolerance is therefore of outmost importance for breeding. However, the complexity of the trait allowed only marginal progress. A solution to the current stagnation is expected from innovative molecular tools such as transcriptome analyses providing insight into stress-related gene activity, which combined with molecular markers and expression (e)QTL mapping, may accelerate knowledge-based breeding. SuperSAGE, an improved version of the serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) technique, generating genome-wide, high-quality transcription profiles from any eukaryote, has been employed in the present study. The method produces 26 bp long fragments (26 bp tags) from defined p

SUBMITTER: Molina C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2628679 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature