Sorghum bicolor Transcriptome or Gene expression. Sorghum bicolor

Sorghum is an important agricultural crop in many parts of the world, primarily due to its superior tolerance to arid and salinity edaphic conditions. Although extensive studies have been conducted on imprinting in maize, including identification of imprinted genes, expression patterns of the genes, and their epigenetic regulatory underpinnings, no information is available about imprinted genes in sorghum. Here, we conducted deep RNA-seq-based genome-wide screening of imprinted genes in sorghum endosperm for identifying sorghum-specific imprinted genes and exploring the expression patterns of imprinted genes in relation to parent-or-origin effect and allele-differential DNA methylation.