Transcriptome Analysis of Wild Type and Histone H1.2(MeH1.2) Transgenic Plants by RNA-seq in Cassava.

Transcriptome Analysis of Wild Type and Histone H1.2(MeH1.2) Transgenic Plants by RNA-seq in Cassava.The goal of this study was to compare the phenotypic and transcriptome differences between transgenic and WT plants, and to analyze how overexpression of MeH1.2 gene changed the expression patterns.MeH1.2 overexpressed transgenic cassava plant (HOE) were was made. The 2-month-old seedlings of HOE were significantly smaller and weaker than of the wild type (WT) under Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium, while, the leave leaf became yellow senescence and the number of branch root increased significantly in HOE than in WT. We found a total of 1670 down-regulated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and 891 up-regulated DEGs in HOE leave of 2-months-old bottled seedling as indicated by RNA-seq. Many of DEGs were associated with growth metabolism and stress response, such as different amino acids metabolic genes, wound-responsive family genes and peroxidase superfamily genes. We hypothesized the overexpression of MeH1.2 may be similar to mild abiotic stress to retard the growth of HOE, the increased proline content and root-shoot ratio of HOE also support the hypothesis.