Biological pathway expression complementation contributes to biomass heterosis in Arabidopsis.

ABSTRACT: The mechanisms underlying heterosis have long remained a matter of debate, despite its agricultural importance. How changes in transcriptional networks during plant development are relevant to the continuous manifestation of growth vigor in hybrids is intriguing and unexplored. Here, we present an integrated high-resolution analysis of the daily dynamic growth phenotypes and transcriptome atlases of young Arabidopsis seedlings (parental ecotypes [Col-0 and Per-1] and their F₁ hybrid). Weighted gene coexpression network analysis uncovered divergent expression patterns between parents of the network hub genes, in which genes related to the cell cycle were more highly expressed in one parent (Col-0), whereas those involved in photosynthesis were more highly expressed in the

SUBMITTER: Liu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8072403 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature