Gene expression analysis of rice seedling under potassium deprivation reveals major changes in metabolism and signaling components.

ABSTRACT: Plant nutrition is one of the important areas for improving the yield and quality in crops as well as non-crop plants. Potassium is an essential plant nutrient and is required in abundance for their proper growth and development. Potassium deficiency directly affects the plant growth and hence crop yield and production. Recently, potassium-dependent transcriptomic analysis has been performed in the model plant Arabidopsis, however in cereals and crop plants; such a transcriptome analysis has not been undertaken till date. In rice, the molecular mechanism for the regulation of potassium starvation responses has not been investigated in detail. Here, we present a combined physiological and whole genome transcriptomic study of rice seedlings exposed to a brief period of potassium deficiency t

SUBMITTER: Shankar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3726378 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature