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ArticleScientific reports2017

Alternative splicing complexity contributes to genetic improvement of drought resistance in the rice maintainer HuHan2B.

Haibin Wei, Qiaojun Lou, Kai Xu, Ming Yan, Hui Xia, Xiaosong Ma, Xinqiao Yu, Lijun Luo

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Haibin WeiShanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, 201106, China.
Qiaojun LouShanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, 201106, China.
Kai XuShanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, 201106, China.
Ming YanShanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, 201106, China.
Hui XiaShanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, 201106, China.
Xiaosong MaShanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, 201106, China.
Xinqiao Yu
Lijun LuoShanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, 201106, China. lijun@sagc.org.cn.
Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center · CN

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Abstract

Water-saving and drought-resistantce rice (WDR) breeding practices have greatly increased grain yield and drought resistance. To study the genetic basis of adaptation to drought, transcriptome sequences from the WDR maintainer line HuHan2B and the recurrent parent HanFengB were analyzed for alternative splicing (AS) complexity. Intron retention, the dominant AS type, accounted for 42% of the observed AS events. Differential expression analysis revealed transcripts were preferentially expressed in different varieties and conditions. Based on gene ontology predictions, the biological functions of drought-induced transcripts were significantly enriched in genes involved in transcription regulation, chloroplast components and response to abiotic stimulus in HuHan2B, whereas developmental processes for reproduction were primarily enriched in HanFengB. The regulatory network of transcription factors was driven by cohorts of transcript splicing targets, resulting in more diversified regulatory relationships due to AS complexity than in our previous findings. Moreover, several genes were validated to accumulate novel splicing transcripts in a drought-induced manner. Together, these results suggest that HuHan2B and HanFengB share similar AS features but that a subset of genes with increased levels of AS involved in transcription regulatory networks may contribute an additional level of control for genetic improvement of drought resistance in rice maintainer HuHan2B through breeding.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalAlternative SplicingDroughtsStress, PhysiologicalComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, PlantGene Regulatory NetworksOryza

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PMID28916800
PMCPMC5601427
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