Transcriptome profiling of drought responsive noncoding RNAs and their target genes in rice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plant transcriptome profiling has provided a tool for understanding the mechanisms by which plants respond to stress conditions. Analysis of genome-wide transcriptome will provides a useful dataset of drought responsive noncoding RNAs and their candidate target genes that may be involved in drought stress responses.

Results

Here RNA-seq analyses of leaves from drought stressed rice plants was performed, producing differential expression profiles of noncoding RNAs. We found that the transcript levels of 66 miRNAs changed significantly in response to drought conditions and that they were negatively correlated with putative target genes during the treatments. The negative correlations were further validated by qRT-PCR using total RNAs from both drought-treated leaves

SUBMITTER: Chung PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4977689 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature