Transcriptomic analysis of drought stress responses of sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoidessubsp. sinensis) by RNA-Seq

PLoS One. 2018 Aug 13;13(8):e0202213. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202213. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

Sea buckthorn is one of the most important eco-economic tree species in China due to its ability to grow and produce acceptable yields under limited water and fertilizer availability. In this study, the differentially expressed genes under drought stress (DS) of sea buckthorn were identified and compared with control (CK) by RNA-Seq. A total of 122,803 unigenes were identified in sea buckthorn, and 70,025 unigenes significantly matched a sequence in at least one of the seven databases. A total of 24,060 (19.59%) unigenes can be assigned to 19 KEGG pathways, and 1,644 unigenes were differentially expressed between DS and CK, of which 519 unigenes were up-regulated and 1,125 unigenes down-regulated. Of the 47 significantly enriched GO terms, 14, 7 and 26 items were related to BP, CC and MF, respectively. KEGG enrichment analysis showed 398 DEGs involved in 97 different pathways, of which 119 DEGs were up-regulated and 279 DEGs were down-regulated under drought stress. In addition, we found 4438 transcriptor factors (TFs) in sea buckthorn, of which 100 were differentially expressed between DS and CK. These results lay a first foundation for further investigations of the very specific functions of these unigenes in sea buckthorn in response to drought stress.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Abscisic Acid / genetics
  • Abscisic Acid / metabolism
  • China
  • Droughts*
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
  • Genes, Plant
  • Hippophae / genetics*
  • Hippophae / physiology*
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways / genetics
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation
  • Plant Growth Regulators / genetics
  • Plant Growth Regulators / metabolism
  • Plant Proteins / genetics
  • Plant Proteins / metabolism
  • RNA, Plant / genetics
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA
  • Signal Transduction / genetics
  • Stress, Physiological

Substances

  • Plant Growth Regulators
  • Plant Proteins
  • RNA, Plant
  • Abscisic Acid

Grants and funding

This study was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 31660071), the Qinghai Science Foundation (Qinghai Science and Technology Department, Grant No. 2017-ZJ-734) and Chunhui project (Ministry of Education of P.R. China, Grant No. Z2015073). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.