High resolution diel transcriptomes of autotetraploid potato reveal expression and sequence conservation among rhythmic genes

Background
Photoperiodic changes in diel cycles of gene expression are pervasive in plants. The timing of circadian regulators, together with light signals, regulate multiple photoperiod-dependent responses such as growth, flowering or tuber formation. However, for most genes, the importance of cyclic mRNA levels is less clear. We analyzed the diel transcriptome of modern cultivated potato, a highly heterozygous autotetraploid. Clonal propagation and limited meiosis have led to the accumulation of deleterious alleles, making tetraploid potato an ideal model system to investigate the conservation of cyclic expression and cyclic genes during artificial selection and clonal propagation.
Results
Our results indicate that rhythmic alleles of cultivated potato were more highly expressed than non-rhythmic genes and were highly co-expressed not only under diel cycles but also across tissues, developmental stages, and stress conditions. Moreover, the smaller ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous..., , # High resolution diel transcriptomes of autotetraploid potato reveal expression and sequence conservation among rhythmic genes

#### Principle Investigator Contact Information

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Name: Eva M. Farre
Institution: Michigan State University
Email: [e-mail]
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## Dataset Overview

This repository contains the large datasets used in the manuscript titled 'High resolution diel transcriptomes of autotetraploid potato reveal expression and sequence conservation among rhythmic genes' by Feke et al., accepted in the BMC Genomics. The code used to generate the plots on the publication can be found here: [https://github.com/efarre/Autotetraploid_potato_diel_transcriptome/tree/main](https://github.com/efarre/Autotetraploid_potato_diel_transcriptome/tree/main).

This repository contains the allelic groups for *S. tuberosum* cv. Atlantic used in this study (Dataset S1). It contains the normalized expression of *S. tuberosum* cv. Atlantic leaf tissue under short and long days, and tuber tissue...,