Maize leaves drought-responsive genes revealed by comparative transcriptome of two cultivars during the filling stage.

ABSTRACT: Like other important cereal crop in modern agricultural production, maize is also threatened by drought. And the drought stress during maize filling stage will directly affect the quality (protein or oil concentration) and also the weight of grain. Therefore, different from previous studies focusing on inbred lines and pot experiment at seedling stage, current study selected filling stage of the adult plant and planting maize in the experimental field. Two hybrids cultivars with different drought tolerant were used for drought and water treatment respectively. We performed transcriptome sequencing analysis of 4 groups, 12 samples, and obtained 651.08 million raw reads. Then the data were further processed by mapping to a reference genome, GO annotation, enrichment analysis and so on. Among

SUBMITTER: Jin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821100 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature