Tissue specific splice forms and mechanisms regulate the response to heat stress in Solanum lycopersicum
Plants are exposed to changing environmental conditions and require well defined responses to abiotic stresses like heat stress. Response stimuli varies for each tissue and lead to cellular reprogramming including changes on transcriptome and prost-transcriptional modifications. In the crop model Solanum lycopersicum we investigated the influence of alternative splicing as regulatory mechanism due to heat stress, as heat stress response is not exclusively regulated at the transcript level. The differential splicing mechanisms were bioinformatically analyzed using long read RNA-seq samples to get qualitative information about splice form pattern, abundance of splicing events and overrepresented splice forms.