耐旱性
生物
高粱
基因
非生物成分
非生物胁迫
遗传学
保守序列
数量性状位点
进化生物学
生态学
农学
基序列
作者
Jeremy Pardo,Ching Man Wai,Maxwell Harman,Annie Nguyen,Karl A. Kremling,M. Cinta Romay,Nicholas Lepak,Taryn L. Bauerle,Edward S. Buckler,Addie Thompson,Robert VanBuren
标识
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2216894120
摘要
Drought tolerance is a highly complex trait controlled by numerous interconnected pathways with substantial variation within and across plant species. This complexity makes it difficult to distill individual genetic loci underlying tolerance, and to identify core or conserved drought-responsive pathways. Here, we collected drought physiology and gene expression datasets across diverse genotypes of the C4 cereals sorghum and maize and searched for signatures defining water-deficit responses. Differential gene expression identified few overlapping drought-associated genes across sorghum genotypes, but using a predictive modeling approach, we found a shared core drought response across development, genotype, and stress severity. Our model had similar robustness when applied to datasets in maize, reflecting a conserved drought response between sorghum and maize. The top predictors are enriched in functions associated with various abiotic stress-responsive pathways as well as core cellular functions. These conserved drought response genes were less likely to contain deleterious mutations than other gene sets, suggesting that core drought-responsive genes are under evolutionary and functional constraints. Our findings support a broad evolutionary conservation of drought responses in C4 grasses regardless of innate stress tolerance, which could have important implications for developing climate resilient cereals.
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