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Maize network analysis revealed gene modules involved in development, nutrients utilization, metabolism, and stress response

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Plant Biology, August 2017
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Title
Maize network analysis revealed gene modules involved in development, nutrients utilization, metabolism, and stress response
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BMC Plant Biology, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12870-017-1077-4
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Shisong Ma, Zehong Ding, Pinghua Li

Abstract

The advent of big data in biology offers opportunities while poses challenges to derive biological insights. For maize, a large amount of publicly available transcriptome datasets have been generated but a comprehensive analysis is lacking. We constructed a maize gene co-expression network based on the graphical Gaussian model, using massive RNA-seq data. The network, containing 20,269 genes, assembles into 964 gene modules that function in a variety of plant processes, such as cell organization, the development of inflorescences, ligules and kernels, the uptake and utilization of nutrients (e.g. nitrogen and phosphate), the metabolism of benzoxazionids, oxylipins, flavonoids, and wax, and the response to stresses. Among them, the inflorescences development module is enriched with domestication genes (like ra1, ba1, gt1, tb1, tga1) that control plant architecture and kernel structure, while multiple other modules relate to diverse agronomic traits. Contained within these modules are transcription factors acting as known or potential expression regulators for the genes within the same modules, suggesting them as candidate regulators for related biological processes. A comparison with an established Arabidopsis network revealed conserved gene association patterns for specific modules involved in cell organization, nutrients uptake & utilization, and metabolism. The analysis also identified significant divergences between the two species for modules that orchestrate developmental pathways. This network sheds light on how gene modules are organized between different species in the context of evolutionary divergence and highlights modules whose structure and gene content can provide important resources for maize gene functional studies with application potential.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 22%
Researcher 13 18%
Student > Master 12 16%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 13 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 41 55%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 16 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 1%
Mathematics 1 1%
Computer Science 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 13 18%
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