Comprehensive gene expression analysis of submergence stress response in nucleus-cytoplasm hybrid wheat

Nucleus-cytoplasm interactions have been shown to affect the sensitivity of wheat to submergence stress. The purpose of this study is to detect genes whose are differentially expression due to submergence stress in alloplasmic or nucleus-cytoplasm hybrids (hereafter abbreviated as NC hybrids) of bread wheat. We performed a comprehensive expression analysis of genes which show differential expression in response to submergence stress imposed during imbibition and germination of seeds in NC hybrids with low (T-type plasmon) and high (U-type plasmon) sensitivity and their nuclear donor wheat cv. CS.