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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01921
Keywords
mungbean (Vigna radiate L. Wilczek); desiccation tolerance; RNA-seq; seeds; transcriptome
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [31360062, 31660119]
- Project of Education Department of Hunan Province [15k105]
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Mungbean (Vigna radiate L. Wilczek) is an important legume crop for its valuable nutritional and health benefits. Desiccation tolerance (DT) is a capacity of seeds to survive and maintain physiological activities during storage and under stress conditions. Many studies of DT have been reported in other legume crop, such as soybean and Medicago truncatula with little studies in the mungbean. In this study, the transcript profiles of mungbean seeds under different imbibition times were investigated for DT using RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq). A total of 3210 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were found at the key period of DT (3-18 h of imbibition). Gene ontology (GO) and KEGG analysis showed that the terms of response to stimulus, transcription regulator, methylation, and starch and sucrose metabolism were enriched for DT. Clustering analysis also showed that many transcription factors (MYB, AP2, and NAG), HSPs, embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins, and genes encoding methyltransferase and histone were differentially expressed. Nine of these DEGs were further validated by quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR). Our study extends our knowledge of mungbean transcriptomes and further provides insight into the molecular mechanism of DT as well as new strategies for developing drought tolerant crops.
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