Transcriptional foliar profile of the C3-CAM bromeliad Guzmania monostachia.

ABSTRACT: Guzmania monostachia is an epiphytic tank bromeliad that displays the inducible CAM photosynthesis under stressful conditions and had the highest stomata density in the leaf apex, while the base portion has the highest density of trichomes, which are specialized structures used to acquire water and nutrients from the tank solution. In order to correlate the genetic factors behind these morpho-physiological characteristics along the leaf blade of G. monostachia, a comparative transcriptome analysis was performed to identify the functional enriched pathways and unigenes that could play a role in the apical, middle and basal leaf portions. A total of 653 million reads were used for de novo transcriptome assembly, resulting in 48,051 annotated unigenes. Analysis of differentially expressed gen

SUBMITTER: Mercier H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6818958 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature