Identification of rhizome-specific genes by genome-wide differential expression analysis in Oryza longistaminata.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rhizomatousness is a key component of perenniality of many grasses that contribute to competitiveness and invasiveness of many noxious grass weeds, but can potentially be used to develop perennial cereal crops for sustainable farmers in hilly areas of tropical Asia. Oryza longistaminata, a perennial wild rice with strong rhizomes, has been used as the model species for genetic and molecular dissection of rhizome development and in breeding efforts to transfer rhizome-related traits into annual rice species. In this study, an effort was taken to get insights into the genes and molecular mechanisms underlying the rhizomatous trait in O. longistaminata by comparative analysis of the genome-wide tissue-specific gene expression patterns of five different tissues of O. longist

SUBMITTER: Hu F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3036607 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature