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Analysis of gene expression in response to water deficit of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) varieties differing in drought tolerance

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Title Analysis of gene expression in response to water deficit of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) varieties differing in drought tolerance
 
Creator Jain, Deepti
Chattopadhyay, Debasis
 
Subject chickpea
Cicer arietinum L.
gene expression
water deficit of chickpea
drought tolerance
 
Description Chickpea (C. arietinum L.) ranks third in food legume crop production in the world. However, drought poses a serious threat to chickpea production, and development of drought-resistant varieties is a necessity. Unfortunately, cultivated chickpea has a high morphological but narrow genetic diversity, and understanding the genetic processes of this plant is hindered by the fact that the chickpea genome has not yet been sequenced and its EST resources are limited. In this study, two chickpea varieties having contrasting levels of drought-tolerance were analyzed for differences in transcript profiling during drought stress treatment by withdrawal of irrigation at different time points. Transcript profiles of ESTs derived from subtractive cDNA libraries constructed with RNA from whole seedlings of both varieties were analyzed at different stages of stress treatment.
This work was supported by a research grant received from Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India. Authors thank
Dr AK Sinha, Dr. Sabhyata Bhatia, NIPGR, India and Dr Indrani Bose, WCU,
USA for editorial support. DJ acknowledges CSIR for research fellowship.
 
Date 2014-02-20T11:11:01Z
2014-02-20T11:11:01Z
2010
3 February 2010
 
Type Article
 
Identifier BMC Plant Biol., 10: 24
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/147
 
Language en
 
Publisher BioMed Central