Profiling of N⁶-Methyladenosine (m⁶A) Modification Landscape in Response to Drought Stress in Apple (Malus prunifolia (Willd.) Borkh).

ABSTRACT: Drought stress is a significant environmental factor limiting crop growth worldwide. Malus prunifolia is an important apple species endemic to China and is used for apple cultivars and rootstocks with great drought tolerance. N⁶-methyladenosine (m⁶A) is a common epigenetic modification on messenger RNAs (mRNAs) in eukaryotes which is critical for various biological processes. However, there are no reports on m⁶A methylation in apple response to drought stress. Here, we assessed the m⁶A landscape of M. prunifolia seedlings in response to drought and analyzed the association between m⁶A modification and transcript expression. In total, we found 19,783 and 19,609 significant m⁶A peaks in the control and drought tr

SUBMITTER: Mao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8747461 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature