Maize network analysis revealed gene modules involved in development, nutrients utilization, metabolism, and stress response.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The advent of big data in biology offers opportunities while poses challenges to derive biological insights. For maize, a large amount of publicly available transcriptome datasets have been generated but a comprehensive analysis is lacking.

Results

We constructed a maize gene co-expression network based on the graphical Gaussian model, using massive RNA-seq data. The network, containing 20,269 genes, assembles into 964 gene modules that function in a variety of plant processes, such as cell organization, the development of inflorescences, ligules and kernels, the uptake and utilization of nutrients (e.g. nitrogen and phosphate), the metabolism of benzoxazionids, oxylipins, flavonoids, and wax, and the response to stresses. Among them, the inflorescences developmen

SUBMITTER: Ma S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5540570 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature