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Isolation of Histone from Sorghum Leaf Tissue for Top Down Mass Spectrometry Profiling of Potential Epigenetic Markers

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Published on: March 4, 2021

A tissue-resolved, network-based transcriptomic framework for abiotic stress responses in sorghum.

Dae Kwan Ko^1,2,3, Federica Brandizzi^1,2,3

¹MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48824, USA.

The Plant Journal : for Cell and Molecular Biology

|March 29, 2026

Summary

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Understanding how plants respond to stress is key to developing climate-resilient crops. This study maps sorghum

Keywords:

abiotic stress bioenergy crops co‐expression network gene regulatory network spatiotemporal dynamics tissue specificity transcriptomics

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Area of Science:

Plant Biology
Genomics
Climate Change Adaptation

Background:

Developing climate-resilient crops is crucial for global food security.
Sorghum exhibits remarkable tolerance to abiotic stresses, making it a model for studying stress responses.
Limited understanding exists on how different stress types, tissues, and time influence crop gene expression.

Purpose of the Study:

To create a comprehensive transcriptomic atlas of sorghum's response to drought, heat, and salinity stress.
To investigate the roles of tissue specificity and temporal dynamics in stress-induced gene expression.
To identify key regulatory networks and transcription factors involved in sorghum's stress tolerance.

Main Methods:

Comparative, time-resolved transcriptomic analysis of sorghum under drought, heat, and salinity stress.
Analysis of gene expression in both shoot and root tissues.
Co-expression network analysis, gene regulatory network (GRN) mapping, and cistrome analysis.

Main Results:

Tissue specificity was the primary driver of gene expression changes across all tested abiotic stresses.
Heat stress induced the most coherent and significant transcriptional and regulatory responses.
Identified tissue-specific gene modules, particularly those related to phytohormones, and key transcription factors controlling them.

Conclusions:

Sorghum's stress response is largely dictated by tissue-specific gene regulation.
This study provides a foundational resource for understanding sorghum's abiotic stress response mechanisms.
Identified candidate genes and regulatory elements for engineering climate-resilient sorghum varieties.