Salt Tolerant and Sensitive Rice Varieties Display Differential Methylome Flexibility under Salt Stress.

ABSTRACT: DNA methylation has been referred as an important player in plant genomic responses to environmental stresses but correlations between the methylome plasticity and specific traits of interest are still far from being understood. In this study, we inspected global DNA methylation levels in salt tolerant and sensitive rice varieties upon salt stress imposition. Global DNA methylation was quantified using the 5-methylcytosine (5mC) antibody and an ELISA-based technique, which is an affordable and quite pioneer assay in plants, and in situ imaging of methylation sites in interphase nuclei of tissue sections. Variations of global DNA methylation levels in response to salt stress were tissue- and genotype-dependent. We show a connection between a higher ability of DNA methylation adjustment leve

SUBMITTER: Ferreira LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416925 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature