Spaceflight-induced alternative splicing during seedling development in Arabidopsis thaliana.

ABSTRACT: Plants grown in spaceflight experience novel environmental signals, including those associated with microgravity and ionizing radiation. Spaceflight triggers a response involving transcriptional re-programming and altered cell morphology, though many aspects of this response remain uncharacterized. We analyzed the spaceflight-induced transcriptome with a focus on genes that undergo alternative splicing to examine differential splicing associated with spaceflight-an unstudied characteristic of the molecular response to spaceflight exposure. RNA sequence data obtained during the APEX03 spaceflight experiment that was collected from two Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes at two seedling stages grown onboard the International Space Station, or as ground controls at Kennedy Space Center, were

SUBMITTER: Beisel NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6447593 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature