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Characterization of rhizome transcriptome and identification of a rhizomatous ER body in the clonal plant Cardamine leucantha
Description
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The rhizome is a plant organ that develops from a shoot apical meristem but penetrates into belowground environments. To characterize the gene expression profile of rhizomes, we compared the rhizome transcriptome with those of the leaves, shoots and roots of a rhizomatous Brassicaceae plant, <jats:italic>Cardamine leucantha.</jats:italic> Overall, rhizome transcriptomes were characterized by the absence of genes that show rhizome-specific expression and expression profiles intermediate between those of shoots and roots. Our results suggest that both endogenous developmental factors and external environmental factors are important for controlling the rhizome transcriptome. Genes that showed relatively high expression in the rhizome compared to shoots and roots included those related to belowground defense, control of reactive oxygen species and cell elongation under dark conditions. A comparison of transcriptomes further allowed us to identify the presence of an ER body, a defense-related belowground organelle, in epidermal cells of the <jats:italic>C. leucantha</jats:italic> rhizome, which is the first report of ER bodies in rhizome tissue.</jats:p>
Journal
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- Scientific Reports
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Scientific Reports 10 (1), 2020-08-06
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
