Rapidly evolving genetic features for desert adaptations in Stipagrostis pennata.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stipagrostis pennata is distributed in the mobile and semi-mobile sand dunes which can adapt well to extreme environments such as drought and high temperature. It is a pioneer plant species with potential for stabilizing sand dunes and ecological restoration. It can settle on moving sand dunes earlier than other desert plants. It can effectively improve the stability of sand dunes and help more plants settle down and increase plant diversity. However, despite its important ecological value, the genetic resources available for this species are limited.

Results

We used single-molecule real-time sequencing technology to obtain the complete full-length transcriptome of Stipagrostis pennata, including 90,204 unigenes with an average length of 2624 bp. In addition, the

SUBMITTER: Ding X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8609760 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature