A Transcriptomic Comparison of Two Bambara Groundnut Landraces under Dehydration Stress.

ABSTRACT: The ability to grow crops under low-water conditions is a significant advantage in relation to global food security. Bambara groundnut is an underutilised crop grown by subsistence farmers in Africa and is known to survive in regions of water deficit. This study focuses on the analysis of the transcriptomic changes in two bambara groundnut landraces in response to dehydration stress. A cross-species hybridisation approach based on the Soybean Affymetrix GeneChip array has been employed. The differential gene expression analysis of a water-limited treatment, however, showed that the two landraces responded with almost completely different sets of genes. Hence, both landraces with very similar genotypes (as assessed by the hybridisation of genomic DNA onto the Soybean Affymetrix GeneChip) sh

SUBMITTER: Khan F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5406868 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature