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ArticleScientific reports2020

Transcriptional trajectories of anther development provide candidates for engineering male fertility in sorghum.

Namrata Dhaka, Kushagra Krishnan, Manu Kandpal, Ira Vashisht, Madan Pal, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Rita Sharma

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Namrata Dhaka *Crop Genetics & Informatics Group, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Kushagra Krishnan *Crop Genetics & Informatics Group, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Manu KandpalCrop Genetics & Informatics Group, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Ira VashishtCrop Genetics & Informatics Group, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Madan PalDivision of Plant Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi, 110012, India.
Manoj Kumar SharmaCrop Genetics & Informatics Group, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Rita SharmaCrop Genetics & Informatics Group, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi, 110067, India. rita.genomics@gmail.com.
Jawaharlal Nehru University · INIndian Agricultural Research Institute · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sorghum is a self-pollinated crop with multiple economic uses as cereal, forage, and biofuel feedstock. Hybrid breeding is a cornerstone for sorghum improvement strategies that currently relies on cytoplasmic male sterile lines. To engineer genic male sterility, it is imperative to examine the genetic components regulating anther/pollen development in sorghum. To this end, we have performed transcriptomic analysis from three temporal stages of developing anthers that correspond to meiotic, microspore and mature pollen stages. A total of 5286 genes were differentially regulated among the three anther stages with 890 of them exhibiting anther-preferential expression. Differentially expressed genes could be clubbed into seven distinct developmental trajectories using K-means clustering. Pathway mapping revealed that genes involved in cell cycle, DNA repair, regulation of transcription, brassinosteroid and auxin biosynthesis/signalling exhibit peak expression in meiotic anthers, while those regulating abiotic stress, carbohydrate metabolism, and transport were enriched in microspore stage. Conversely, genes associated with protein degradation, post-translational modifications, cell wall biosynthesis/modifications, abscisic acid, ethylene, cytokinin and jasmonic acid biosynthesis/signalling were highly expressed in mature pollen stage. High concurrence in transcriptional dynamics and cis-regulatory elements of differentially expressed genes in rice and sorghum confirmed conserved developmental pathways regulating anther development across species. Comprehensive literature survey in conjunction with orthology analysis and anther-preferential accumulation enabled shortlisting of 21 prospective candidates for in-depth characterization and engineering male fertility in sorghum.

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Carbohydrate MetabolismCell WallFlowersGene Expression Regulation, PlantGenetic EngineeringGenomicsMeiosisOryzaPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant InfertilityPlant ProteinsPlants, Genetically ModifiedPollenReproducibility of ResultsSecondary MetabolismSequence Analysis, RNAPlant Growth RegulatorsPlant Proteins

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PMID31964983
PMCPMC6972786
OpenAlexW3002981320

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