Analysis of transcriptional response to heat stress in Rhazya stricta.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Climate change is predicted to be a serious threat to agriculture due to the need for crops to be able to tolerate increased heat stress. Desert plants have already adapted to high levels of heat stress so they make excellent systems for identifying genes involved in thermotolerance. Rhazya stricta is an evergreen shrub that is native to extremely hot regions across Western and South Asia, making it an excellent system for examining plant responses to heat stress. Transcriptomes of apical and mature leaves of R. stricta were analyzed at different temperatures during several time points of the day to detect heat response mechanisms that might confer thermotolerance and protection of the plant photosynthetic apparatus.

Results

Biological pathways that were crosstalk

SUBMITTER: Obaid AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5109689 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature