Zea mays root raw reads from RNA-seq analysis
A maize (Zea mays L.) traditional Italian population (VA572) and a commercial hybrid (P1547) were used in this study to investigate their ability of growing using phytic acid (Po treatment) vs mineral phosphate (Pi treatment) as P sources in a 28-day experiment. The hypothesis was that the agronomical context after vs before the customary use of mineral fertilizers could have brought to different abilities in exploiting P sources for plant growth. Quantitative and qualitative growth parameters, root enzymatic phosphatase activities and root transcriptome by RNA-seq analysis were analyzed in this study.