Transcriptome analysis of durum wheat flag leaves reveals that the adverse effect of heat stress on gene expression is partially compensated by elevated CO2. Transcriptome analysis of durum wheat under heat stress and elevated CO2

Global warming is becoming a significant problem for food security, particularly in the Mediterranean basin. The use of molecular techniques to study gene-level responses to environmental changes in non-model organisms is increasing and may help to improve the mechanisticunderstanding of durum wheat response to elevated CO2 and high temperature. With this purpose, we performed transcriptome RNA-seq analyses combined with physiological and biochemical studies inthe flag leaf of plants grown in field chambers at ear emergence.