Insights into salt tolerance from the genome of Thellungiella salsuginea
    作者: Hua-Jun Wu,Zhonghui Zhang,Jun-Yi Wang,Dong-Ha Oh,Maheshi Dassanayake,Binghang Liu,Quanfei Huang,Hai-Xi Sun,Ran Xia,Yaorong Wu,Yi-Nan Wang,Zhao Yang,Yang Liu,Wanke Zhang,Huawei Zhang,Jinfang Chu,Cunyu Yan,Shuang Fang,Jinsong Zhang,Yiqin Wang,Fengxia Zhang,Guodong Wang,Sang Yeol Lee,John M. Cheeseman,Bicheng Yang,Bo Li,Jiumeng Min,Linfeng Yang,Jun Wang,Chengcai Chu,Shou-Yi Chen,Hans J. Bohnert,Jian-Kang Zhu,Xiu-Jie Wang, and Qi Xie
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    Thellungiella salsuginea, a close relative of Arabidopsis, represents an extremophile model for abiotic stress tolerance studies. We present the draft sequence of the T. salsuginea genome, assembled based on ~134-fold coverage to seven chromosomes with a coding capacity of at least 28,457 genes. This genome provides resources and evidence about the nature of defense mechanisms constituting the genetic basis underlying plant abiotic stress tolerance. Comparative genomics and experimental analyses identified genes related to cation transport, abscisic acid signaling, and wax production prominent in T. salsuginea as possible contributors to its success in stressful environments.