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Changes in Gene Expression in Maize Kernel in Response to Water and Salt Stress

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Journal Plant Cell Rep
Publisher Springer
Date 2005 Dec 20
PMID 16362303
Citations 17
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Increasing pressure on limited water resources for agriculture, together with the global temperature increase, highlight the importance of breeding for drought-tolerant cultivars. A better understanding of the molecular nature of drought stress can be expected through the use of genomics approaches. Here, a macroarray of approximately 2500 maize cDNAs was used for determining transcript changes during water- and salt-stress treatments of developing kernels at 15 days after pollination. Normalization of relative transcript abundances was carried out using a human nebulin control sequence. The proportions of transcripts that changed significantly in abundance upon treatment (>2-fold compared to the control) were determined; 1.5% of the sequences examined were up-regulated by high salinity and 1% by water stress. Both stresses induced 0.8% of the sequences. These include genes involved in various stress responses: abiotic, wounding and pathogen attack (abscisic acid response binding factor, glycine and proline-rich proteins, pathogenesis-related proteins, etc.). The proportion of down-regulated genes was higher than that for up-regulated genes for water stress (3.2%) and lower for salt stress (0.7%), although only eight genes, predominantly involved in energy generation, were down-regulated in both stress conditions. Co-expression of genes of unknown function under defined conditions may help in elucidating their roles in coordinating stress responses.

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