1. JGI Plant Gene Atlas: an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom.
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Sreedasyam A, Plott C, Hossain MS, Lovell JT, Grimwood J, Jenkins JW, Daum C, Barry K, Carlson J, Shu S, Phillips J, Amirebrahimi M, Zane M, Wang M, Goodstein D, Haas FB, Hiss M, Perroud PF, Jawdy SS, Yang Y, Hu R, Johnson J, Kropat J, Gallaher SD, Lipzen A, Shakirov EV, Weng X, Torres-Jerez I, Weers B, Conde D, Pappas MR, Liu L, Muchlinski A, Jiang H, Shyu C, Huang P, Sebastian J, Laiben C, Medlin A, Carey S, Carrell AA, Chen JG, Perales M, Swaminathan K, Allona I, Grattapaglia D, Cooper EA, Tholl D, Vogel JP, Weston DJ, Yang X, Brutnell TP, Kellogg EA, Baxter I, Udvardi M, Tang Y, Mockler TC, Juenger TE, Mullet J, Rensing SA, Tuskan GA, Merchant SS, Stacey G, and Schmutz J
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- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant, Genome, Plant, Phylogeny, Software, Atlases as Topic, Genes, Plant, Transcriptome genetics
- Abstract
Gene functional descriptions offer a crucial line of evidence for candidate genes underlying trait variation. Conversely, plant responses to environmental cues represent important resources to decipher gene function and subsequently provide molecular targets for plant improvement through gene editing. However, biological roles of large proportions of genes across the plant phylogeny are poorly annotated. Here we describe the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Plant Gene Atlas, an updateable data resource consisting of transcript abundance assays spanning 18 diverse species. To integrate across these diverse genotypes, we analyzed expression profiles, built gene clusters that exhibited tissue/condition specific expression, and tested for transcriptional response to environmental queues. We discovered extensive phylogenetically constrained and condition-specific expression profiles for genes without any previously documented functional annotation. Such conserved expression patterns and tightly co-expressed gene clusters let us assign expression derived additional biological information to 64 495 genes with otherwise unknown functions. The ever-expanding Gene Atlas resource is available at JGI Plant Gene Atlas (https://plantgeneatlas.jgi.doe.gov) and Phytozome (https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/), providing bulk access to data and user-specified queries of gene sets. Combined, these web interfaces let users access differentially expressed genes, track orthologs across the Gene Atlas plants, graphically represent co-expressed genes, and visualize gene ontology and pathway enrichments., (© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.)
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- 2023
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