Transcriptomic Analysis of Dark-Induced Senescence in Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon).

ABSTRACT: Leaf senescence induced by prolonged light deficiency is inevitable whenever turfgrass is cultivated in forests, and this negatively influences the survival and aesthetic quality of the turfgrass. However, the mechanism underlying dark-induced senescence in turfgrass remained obscure. In this study, RNA sequencing was performed to analyze how genes were regulated in response to dark-induced leaf senescence in bermudagrass. A total of 159,207 unigenes were obtained with a mean length of 948 bp. The differential expression analysis showed that a total of 59,062 genes, including 52,382 up-regulated genes and 6680 down-regulated genes were found to be differentially expressed between control leaves and senescent leaves induced by darkness. Subsequent bioinformatics analysis showed that these d

SUBMITTER: Fan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6963411 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature