A landscape of cis-natural antisense transcription under cadmium exposure in rice. Oryza

Plants respond and adapt to various environmental stress to survive under stress conditions. Huge numbers of transcripts including unsupported RAP (Rice Annotation Project) that respond to stress have been analyzed in rice, and TENOR (Transcriptome ENcyclopedia Of Rice, http://tenor.dna.affrc.go.jp), a database that encompasses large-scale mRNA sequencing (mRNA-Seq) data have developed previously. Since the elucidation of the novel transcripts and their expressions to respond to cadmium exposure is a necessary for understanding the transcriptional network of plant adaptation to the cadmium, it is of great interest to identify the cis-natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) as novel transcripts by ssRNA-seq. This study will be useful for further studies of the complete molecular mechanisms of plant adaptation to Cd exposure.