The rehydration transcriptome of the desiccation-tolerant bryophyte Tortula ruralis: transcript classification and analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The cellular response of plants to water-deficits has both economic and evolutionary importance directly affecting plant productivity in agriculture and plant survival in the natural environment. Genes induced by water-deficit stress have been successfully enumerated in plants that are relatively sensitive to cellular dehydration, however we have little knowledge as to the adaptive role of these genes in establishing tolerance to water loss at the cellular level. Our approach to address this problem has been to investigate the genetic responses of plants that are capable of tolerating extremes of dehydration, in particular the desiccation-tolerant bryophyte, Tortula ruralis. To establish a sound basis for characterizing the Tortula genome in regards to desiccation tolera

SUBMITTER: Oliver MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC535811 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature