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Othman, Tajul Ariffien
(2019)
Identification and characterization of drought-induced genes in Malaysia rice cultivars, MR220 and MR211 using RNA-sequencing platform.
Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Abstract
Drought is one of the abiotic stresses on plants, causing significant detrimental impacts,
especially to lowland rice (Oryza sativa L.) ecosystems. In order to obtain new insights
on osmotic stress in rice, a comparative study using a Next-Generation Sequencing
platform was conducted to elucidate osmotic-responsive genes from two local
Malaysian rice cultivars, namely the commercially available drought-tolerant MR220
and the drought-sensitive MR211. In the study, 21-day-old seedlings of MR220 and
MR211 were exposed to 6% PEG 6000 for 24 hours, which produced osmotic stress
that mimicked the drought condition. The samples were collected and total RNA were
extracted. Two transcriptomic libraries were constructed from both rice cultivars using
the Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform. A total of 77,964,138 and 92,699,454 raw sequence
reads were generated from these libraries. From the expressed genes from both
libraries, around 44, 902 genes have been found overlapping each other. Then, 8,095
and 2,081 gen have been found uniquely in MR220 and MR211, respectively. Based on
the gene annotation of O. sativa, a total of 106 genes were identified as differentially
and significantly expressed in drought-tolerant and drought-susceptible cultivars, and a
total of 29 genes were categorized as unknown genes. From the 106 differentially
expressed genes (DEGs), 14 genes were up-regulated, while another 92 were downregulated
in MR220. Gene Ontology (GO) and KEGG analysis were conducted to
obtain the functional and biological role of the differentially expressed genes. Six
drought related genes were selected for validating the RNA-Seq analysis using semiquantitative
PCR. The validation result showed four out of six DEGs followed the
RNA-Seq analysis. Then, two genes were selected form six semi-quantitative analysis,
HP and Thia genes were validated using real-time qRT-PCR. The result showed same
expression with semi-quantitative PCR. Overall, this study gives further insight on rice
defense mechanisms during osmotic stress at early stage.
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