Comparative exomics of Phalaris cultivars under salt stress.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) is an economically important forage and bioenergy grass of the temperate regions of the world. Despite its economic importance, it is lacking in public genomic data. We explore comparative exomics of the grass cultivars in the context of response to salt exposure. The limited data set poses challenges to the computational pipeline.

Methods

As a prerequisite for the comparative study, we generate the Phalaris reference transcriptome sequence, one of the first steps in addressing the issue of paucity of processed genomic data in this species. In addition, the differential expression (DE) and active-but-stable genes for salt stress conditions were analyzed by a novel method that was experimentally verified on human RNA-seq dat

SUBMITTER: Haiminen N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4240679 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature