Global leaf and root transcriptome in response to cadmium reveals tolerance mechanisms in Arundo donax L.

ABSTRACT: The expected increase of sustainable energy demand has shifted the attention towards bioenergy crops. Due to their know tolerance against abiotic stress and relatively low nutritional requirements, they have been proposed as election crops to be cultivated in marginal lands without disturbing the part of lands employed for agricultural purposes. Arundo donax L. is a promising bioenergy crop whose behaviour under water and salt stress has been recently studied at transcriptomic levels. As the anthropogenic activities produced in the last years a worrying increase of cadmium contamination worldwide, the aim of our work was to decipher the global transcriptomic response of A. donax leaf and root in the perspective of its cultivation in contaminated soil. In our study, RNA-seq libraries yielde

SUBMITTER: Santoro DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9175368 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature