Acetylome analyses in the germinating rice seed

Seed germination is a complicated physiological process, during which structures of mitochondria and plastids are recovered, and metabolisms are re-activated (Han and Yang, 2015). It has been shown that metabolism reactivation is very important for rice germination (He et al., 2011b;Han et al., 2014a). It is still unknown if protein acetylation involved in and regulate these metabolisms during rice seed germination. To answer this question, we globally profiled the acetylome in rice embryos from the germinating seeds. A number of acetylated enzymes were identified. The results provide more information about the metabolism regulation in germinating seeds.