Transcriptome profiling of tobacco under water deficit conditions

Roel C Rabara; Prateek Tripathi; Mani Kant Choudhary; Michael P Timko; Qingxi J Shen; Paul J Rushton

doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2015.05.025

Transcriptome profiling of tobacco under water deficit conditions

Genom Data. 2015 Jun 2:5:61-3. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2015.05.025. eCollection 2015 Sep.

Authors

Roel C Rabara¹, Prateek Tripathi², Mani Kant Choudhary¹, Michael P Timko³, Qingxi J Shen⁴, Paul J Rushton¹

Affiliations

¹ Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Dallas, TX 75252, United States.
² Molecular and Computational Biology Section, Dana & David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
³ Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, United States.
⁴ School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, United States.

Abstract

Drought is one of the limiting environmental factors that affect crop production. Understanding the molecular basis of how plants respond to this water deficit stress is key to developing drought tolerant crops. In this study we generated time course-based transcriptome profiles of tobacco plants under water deficit conditions using microarray technology. In this paper, we describe in detail the experimental procedures and analyses performed in our study. The data set we generated (available in the NCBI/GEO database under GSE67434) has been analysed to identify genes that are involved in the regulation of tobacco's responses to drought.

Keywords: Dehydration; Drought; Microarray; Tobacco.