title: Barley transcript profiles under dehydration shock and drought stress treatments: a comparative analysis.
abstract: A microarray including 1654 cDNAs, mainly derived from dehydration-shocked barley leaf tissues, was utilized to monitor expression changes in leaves of barley plants subjected to slow drying conditions (7 d and 11 d: 7d-WS and 11d-WS) in soil and after rehydration. The results were compared with those obtained under shock-like conditions imposed with a 6 h dehydration treatment. A total number of 173 transcripts (approximately 10% of all transcripts profiled) were declared up- or down-regulated in at least one of the conditions tested. The majority of the transcripts were regulated by only one of the drought treatments, with 57% of the differentially expressed transcripts exclusively affected in the dehydration shock treatment, 6% at 7d-WS, 14% at 11d-WS, and 6% after rehydration. Irrespective of the low percentage of transcripts (10%) with similar expression changes between shock and slow stress treatments, a sizeable portion of these transcripts shared a common expression trend under the different drought treatment conditions, as evidenced by low but significant correlations between the fast occurring and the 7d-WS and 11d-WS treatments (r=0.32 and 0.41, P=0.001, respectively). These results are discussed with respect to the merit of different dehydration treatments in the investigation of the changes in transcript profiling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agroenvironmental Sciences and Technology, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Talamè
authors.forename: Neslihan Z
authors.initials: NZ
authors.lastname: Ozturk
authors.forename: Hans J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Bohnert
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tuberosa
mesh_terms: D003890:Desiccation; D004190:Disasters; D015536:Down-Regulation; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000187:drug effects; D001467:Hordeum / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000187:drug effects; D015854:Up-Regulation; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D014867:Water