Combined analysis of mRNA and miRNA identifies dehydration and salinity responsive key molecular players in citrus roots.

ABSTRACT: Citrus is one of the most economically important fruit crops around world. Drought and salinity stresses adversely affected its productivity and fruit quality. However, the genetic regulatory networks and signaling pathways involved in drought and salinity remain to be elucidated. With RNA-seq and sRNA-seq, an integrative analysis of miRNA and mRNA expression profiling and their regulatory networks were conducted using citrus roots subjected to dehydration and salt treatment. Differentially expressed (DE) mRNA and miRNA profiles were obtained according to fold change analysis and the relationships between miRNAs and target mRNAs were found to be coherent and incoherent in the regulatory networks. GO enrichment analysis revealed that some crucial biological processes related to signal trans

SUBMITTER: Xie R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5292693 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature