De novo assembly of red clover transcriptome based on RNA-Seq data provides insight into drought response, gene discovery and marker identification.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) is a versatile forage crop legume, which can tolerate a variety of soils and is suitable for silage production for winter feed and for grazing. It is one of the most important forage legumes in temperate livestock agriculture. Its beneficial attributes include ability to fix nitrogen, improve soil and provide protein rich animal feed. It is however, a short-lived perennial providing good biomass yield for two or three years. Improved persistency is thus a major breeding target. Better water-stress tolerance is one of the key factors influencing persistency, but little is known about how red clover tolerates water stress.

Results

Plants from a full sib mapping family were used in a drought experiment, in which the growth rate and

SUBMITTER: Yates SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4144119 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature