A Method for Rapid and Reliable Molecular Detection of Drought-Response Genes in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench Roots

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Drought is a major environmental stress that limits growth and productivity in agricultural ecosystems limiting crop yield worldwide. Breeding crops for enhanced drought tolerance is a priority to preserve food security on the increasing world population. Recent work in Arabidopsis has shown that vascular brassinosteroid receptor BRL3 (Brassinosteroid insensitive like-3) transcriptionally controls the production of osmoprotectant metabolites that confer drought resistance without penalizing growth, offering new and exciting possibilities for biotechnological improvement of drought-resistant crops. In cereals, understanding transcriptional responses to drought is an essential step for the production of gene-edited drought-resistant cereals. In this chapter, we present a method to analyze the transcriptional responses to drought in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, our cereal of choice. Among the genes we tested, we found that drought marker gene SbDHN1 has a 1000-fold increase only after 1 day of drought, bringing possibilities for the development of molecular sensors for testing drought. Overall, this analysis is useful to set up conditions of high-throughput transcriptomic analysis of drought stressed plants before drought phenotype is observed.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2539

Enthalten in:

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 2539(2022) vom: 27., Seite 223-233

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fontanet-Manzaneque, Juan B [VerfasserIn]
Blasco-Escámez, David [VerfasserIn]
Martignago, Damiano [VerfasserIn]
Rico-Medina, Andrés [VerfasserIn]
Caño-Delgado, Ana I [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Brassinosteroids
Drought
Drought marker genes
Journal Article
QRT-PCR
Root
Sorghum

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Date Completed 29.07.2022

Date Revised 13.09.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/978-1-0716-2537-8_18

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344149862