Transcriptome profiling of the floating-leaved aquatic plant Nymphoides peltata in response to flooding stress.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Waterlogging or flooding is one of the most challenging abiotic stresses experienced by plants. Unlike many flooding-tolerant plants, floating-leaved aquatic plants respond actively to flooding stress by fast growth and elongation of its petioles to make leaves re-floating. However, the molecular mechanisms of this plant group responding to flood have not been investigated before. Here, we investigated the genetic basis of this adaptive response by characterizing the petiole transcriptomes of a floating-leaved species Nymphoides peltata under normal and flooding conditions.

Results

Clean reads under normal and flooding conditions with pooled sampling strategy were assembled into 124,302 unigenes. A total of 8883 unigenes were revealed to be differentially expresse

SUBMITTER: Wu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5282827 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature