Meta-analysis of drought-tolerant genotypes in Oryza sativa: A network-based approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drought is a severe environmental stress. It is estimated that about 50% of the world rice production is affected mainly by drought. Apart from conventional breeding strategies to develop drought-tolerant crops, innovative computational approaches may provide insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms of stress response and identify drought-responsive markers. Here we propose a network-based computational approach involving a meta-analytic study of seven drought-tolerant rice genotypes under drought stress.

Results

Co-expression networks enable large-scale analysis of gene-pair associations and tightly coupled clusters that may represent coordinated biological processes. Considering differentially expressed genes in the co-expressed modules and supplementin

SUBMITTER: Sircar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6502313 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature