Integrated methylome and transcriptome analysis unravel the cold tolerance mechanism in winter rapeseed(Brassica napus L.)

• Published in: BMC plant biology Vol. 22; no. 1; p. 414
• Main Authors: Zheng, Guoqiang, Dong, Xiaoyun, Wei, Jiaping, Liu, Zigang, Aslam, Ali, Cui, JunMei, Li, Hui, Wang, Ying, Tian, Haiyan, Cao, Xiaodong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London BioMed Central Ltd 26.08.2022; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Abiotic stress; alpha-linolenic acid; Biosynthesis; Bisulfite; bisulfites; Brassica; Brassica napus; carbon dioxide fixation; Carbon fixation; China; Chloroplast DNA; Chloroplasts; Chromosomes; Cold; Cold tolerance; Cultivars; Cytosine; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA methylation; ecological value; Environmental aspects; Environmental stress; Epigenetics; Flavonoids; Freezing; Freezing stress; Freezing tolerance; Gene expression; gene expression regulation; Gene sequencing; Genes; Genetic aspects; Genomes; Hardiness; introns; Linoleic acid; Linolenic acid; Lipid peroxidation; Lipids; Mitochondrial DNA; nuclear genome; Nucleotide sequence; Peroxidation; Photosynthesis; Plant hormones; plant response; Plants; Rape (Plant); Rape plants; Rapeseed; Reactive oxygen species; Scavenging; sequence analysis; Signal transduction; stress response; Transcription factors; Transcriptome; Transcriptomes; transcriptomics; Winter; Winter rapeseed; China

Cytosine methylation, the main type of DNA methylation, regulates gene expression in plant response to environmental stress. The winter rapeseed has high economic and ecological value in China's Northwest, but the DNA methylation pattern of winter rapeseed during freezing stress remains unclear...