A draft genome provides hypotheses on drought tolerance in a keystone plant species in Western North America threatened by climate change.

ABSTRACT: Climate change presents distinct ecological and physiological challenges to plants as extreme climate events become more common. Understanding how species have adapted to drought, especially ecologically important nonmodel organisms, will be crucial to elucidate potential biological pathways for drought adaptation and inform conservation strategies. To aid in genome-to-phenome research, a draft genome was assembled for a diploid individual of Artemisia tridentata subsp. tridentata, a threatened keystone shrub in western North America. While this taxon has few genetic resources available and genetic/genomics work has proven difficult due to genetic heterozygosity in the past, a draft genome was successfully assembled. Aquaporin (AQP) genes and their promoter sequences were min

SUBMITTER: Melton AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571618 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature