Identification of drought stress-responsive transcription factors in ramie (Boehmeria nivea L. Gaud).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ramie fiber extracted from stem bark is one of the most important natural fibers. Drought is a main environment stress which severely inhibits the stem growth of ramie and leads to a decrease of the fiber yield. The drought stress-regulatory mechanism of ramie is poorly understood.

Result

Using Illumina sequencing, approximately 4.8 and 4.7 million (M) 21-nt cDNA tags were respectively sequenced in the cDNA libraries derived from the drought-stressed ramie (DS) and the control ramie under well water condition (CO). The tags generated from the two libraries were aligned with ramie transcriptome to annotate their function and a total of 23,912 and 22,826 ramie genes were matched by these tags of DS and CO library, respectively. Comparison of gene expression level be

SUBMITTER: Liu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3846573 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature