Maize Response to Low Temperatures at the Gene Expression Level: A Critical Survey of Transcriptomic Studies.

ABSTRACT: Maize is a cold-sensitive plant whose physiological reactions to sub-optimal temperatures are well understood, but their molecular foundations are only beginning to be deciphered. In an attempt to identify key genes involved in these reactions, we surveyed several independent transcriptomic studies addressing the response of juvenile maize to moderate or severe cold. Among the tens of thousands of genes found to change expression upon cold treatment less than 500 were reported in more than one study, indicating an astonishing variability of the expression changes, likely depending on the experimental design and plant material used. Nearly all these "common" genes were specific to either moderate or to severe cold and formed distinct interaction networks, indicating fundamentally different

SUBMITTER: Sowinski P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7550719 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature