Journal
PLANT CELL
Volume 25, Issue 9, Pages 3266-3279Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.115352
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- National Science Foundation [DEB-0618347, DEB-0618302, DEB-1022196]
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture-Agriculture and Food Research Initiative postdoctoral fellowship [2011-67012-30696]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1022196] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The regulation of gene expression is crucial for an organism's development and response to stress, and an understanding of the evolution of gene expression is of fundamental importance to basic and applied biology. To improve this understanding, we conducted expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) mapping in the Tsu-1 (Tsushima, Japan) x Kas-1 (Kashmir, India) recombinant inbred line population of Arabidopsis thaliana across soil drying treatments. We then used genome resequencing data to evaluate whether genomic features (promoter polymorphism, recombination rate, gene length, and gene density) are associated with genes responding to the environment (E) or with genes with genetic variation (G) in gene expression in the form of eQTLs. We identified thousands of genes that responded to soil drying and hundreds of main-effect eQTLs. However, we identified very few statistically significant eQTLs that interacted with the soil drying treatment (GxE eQTL). Analysis of genome resequencing data revealed associations of several genomic features with G and E genes. In general, E genes had lower promoter diversity and local recombination rates. By contrast, genes with eQTLs (G) had significantly greater promoter diversity and were located in genomic regions with higher recombination. These results suggest that genomic architecture may play an important a role in the evolution of gene expression.
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