Moderate drought causes dramatic floral transcriptomic reprogramming to ensure successful reproductive development in Arabidopsis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drought is a major constraint that leads to extensive losses to agricultural yield worldwide. The potential yield is largely determined during inflorescence development. However, to date, most investigations on plant response to drought have focused on vegetative development. This study describes the morphological changes of reproductive development and the comparison of transcriptomes under various drought conditions.

Results

The plants grown were studied under two drought conditions: minimum for successful reproduction (45-50% soil water content, moderate drought, MD) and for survival (30-35%, severe drought, SD). MD plants can produce similar number of siliques on the main stem and similar number of seeds per silique comparing with well-water plants. The situat

SUBMITTER: Ma X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4067085 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature