Data from: Effect of light exposure on circular RNA and alternative splicing in Camelina sativa

Gene expression is controlled at multiple levels to ensure that the gene
product is present at the right place, time, and quantity during
development or in response to environmental stress. Transcriptional
and post-transcriptional regulation of RNA abundance, processing,
and translation control protein abundance by gene-specific and
genome-wide mechanisms. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been identified as
a new group of multifunctional gene-specific regulators. CircRNAs
have been identified in over 20 plant species to date and although they
appear to be highly conserved across the plant kingdom, sequencing of
circRNA has not been performed for any oil seed crop. Among the
many high-value oilseed crops, Camelina sativa has gained much
attention for its potential use as a model species for studying oil
biosynthesis. This is partly due to its close ancestral relationship to
the well-established model species Arabidopsis thaliana, a system that has
been especially useful in studying the mechanisms and functions of various
circRNAs. As a recently diverged allohexaploid, Camelina sativa may be
subject to even more complexity in regulation due to retention of
multiple, highly-similar subgenomes with redundant gene copies. In this
study, we performed deep sequencing in Camelina seedlings germinated under
light or dark conditions to identify circRNA and examine correlated
expression patterns of linear RNA cognates under different light regimes
during seedling establishment.