Functional characterization of drought-responsive modules and genes in Oryza sativa: a network-based approach.

ABSTRACT: Drought is one of the major environmental stress conditions affecting the yield of rice across the globe. Unraveling the functional roles of the drought-responsive genes and their underlying molecular mechanisms will provide important leads to improve the yield of rice. Co-expression relationships derived from condition-dependent gene expression data is an effective way to identify the functional associations between genes that are part of the same biological process and may be under similar transcriptional control. For this purpose, vast amount of freely available transcriptomic data may be used. In this study, we consider gene expression data for different tissues and developmental stages in response to drought stress. We analyze the network of co-expressed genes to identify drought-resp

SUBMITTER: Sircar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4519691 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature