Transcriptome sequencing under water deficit stress and recovery in sugarcane

Sugarcane is an economically important crop and India is one of the leading nations in sugar and cane production. Abiotic stresses reduce the potential yield of sugarcane by 70%, with drought being the most prominent factor. To study the drought transcriptome by high throughput sequencing strategies and subsequent identification of genes and pathways that are involved in the drought tolerant stress in sugarcane. the study will give significant conceptual understanding of drought effects and prediction of master regulators involved in imparting drought tolerance. it will also lead to the identification of potential candidate genes for developing functional markers for drought stress.

甘蔗是一种具有重要经济价值的作物，印度亦是全球蔗糖与甘蔗生产的领军国家之一。非生物胁迫可使甘蔗的潜在产量降低70%，其中干旱胁迫是最为突出的限制因子。本研究拟采用高通量测序（high throughput sequencing）技术解析甘蔗的干旱转录组（drought transcriptome），并筛选参与甘蔗耐旱胁迫过程的基因与信号通路。该研究将显著深化对干旱胁迫效应的理论认知，预测参与调控甘蔗耐旱性的核心调控因子；同时还将鉴定出潜在的候选基因，用于开发干旱胁迫相关的功能标记。