Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

The genomic landscape of molecular responses to natural drought stress in Panicum hallii

  • John T. Lovell,
  • Jerry Jenkins,
  • David B. Lowry,
  • Sujan Mamidi,
  • Avinash Sreedasyam,
  • Xiaoyu Weng,
  • Kerrie Barry,
  • Jason Bonnette,
  • Brandon Campitelli,
  • Chris Daum,
  • Sean P. Gordon,
  • Billie A. Gould,
  • Albina Khasanova,
  • Anna Lipzen,
  • Alice MacQueen,
  • Juan Diego Palacio-Mejía,
  • Christopher Plott,
  • Eugene V. Shakirov,
  • Shengqiang Shu,
  • Yuko Yoshinaga,
  • Matt Zane,
  • Dave Kudrna,
  • Jason D. Talag,
  • Daniel Rokhsar,
  • Jane Grimwood,
  • Jeremy Schmutz,
  • Thomas E. Juenger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07669-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Drought is a major factor limiting crop productivity. Here, via eQTL analysis and comparative genomics, the authors show compensatory evolution between trans-regulatory loci and transcription factor binding sites that shape the drought response networks in the model C4 grass Panicum hallii.