Continuous salt stress-induced long non-coding RNAs and DNA methylation patterns in soybean roots.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Environmental stimuli can activate a series of physiological and biochemical responses in plants accompanied by extensive transcriptional reprogramming. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), as versatile regulators, control gene expression in multiple ways and participate in the adaptation to biotic and abiotic stresses.

Results

In this study, soybean seedlings were continuously cultured for 15 days with high salinity solutions started from seed germination. Strand-specific whole transcriptome sequencing and stringent bioinformatic analysis led to the identification of 3030 long intergenic non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) and 275 natural antisense transcripts (lncNATs) in soybean roots. In contrast to mRNAs, newly identified lncRNAs exhibited less exons, similar AU content to

SUBMITTER: Chen R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6790039 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature