Understanding salt tolerance mechanism using transcriptome profiling and de novo assembly of wild tomato Solanum chilense.

ABSTRACT: Soil salinity affects the plant growth and productivity detrimentally, but Solanum chilense, a wild relative of cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), is known to have exceptional salt tolerance. It has precise adaptations against direct exposure to salt stress conditions. Hence, a better understanding of the mechanism to salinity stress tolerance by S. chilense can be accomplished by comprehensive gene expression studies. In this study 1-month-old seedlings of S. chilense and S. lycopersicum were subjected to salinity stress through application of sodium chloride (NaCl) solution. Through RNA-sequencing here we have studied the differences in the gene expression patterns. A total of 386 million clean reads were obtained through RNAseq analysis using the Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform.

SUBMITTER: Kashyap SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7523002 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature