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Gene network analysis predicts the primary regulators of ABA-dependent transcriptional activation and repression in
David Cohen1, Maira De Freitas Pereira1, Iva Pavlović2
1AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR Silva, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
Abstract:
Abscisic acid (ABA) acts as a key signalling molecule that mediates plant responses to environmental cues as well as plant growth and development. Stress-induced and developmental changes in ABA content trigger a myriad of post-transcriptional and transcriptional events. Yet, ABA-dependent transcriptional responses are context dependent, and their temporal dynamics in roots under non-stress conditions remain poorly resolved. In this study, we characterised the hallmarks of ABA signalling and responses in the poplar root transcriptome (Populus nigra L.). We disturbed ABA homeostasis by exogenous ABA treatments, and we combined time-resolved transcriptomics with unsupervised gene network analysis to identify ABA-activated and ABA-inactivated gene co-expression modules. Considering the temporal dynamics of transcriptional events, we predicted the primary targets of the ABA signal, characterised early responding ABA-dependent processes, identified hub genes and revealed their putative functional links. We demonstrated that the properties of a master ABA-activated module induced by exogenous treatments were preserved in the transcriptome response to osmotic stress, revealing a core gene set of ABA-dependent stress responses. Our work sheds light on ABA repression of gene expression, the reprogramming of metabolism and the leaf-senescence pathway. Based on current functional knowledge and phylogenetic information, including poplar-specific features, we proposed a working model of ABA action on root transcriptome in poplar that integrates master genes, key responsive processes, and their putative regulatory architecture.
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