文摘
The increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, caused by fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, plays an important role in plant growth and development. Wheat, as a major staple crop, adapts to climate change by tuning its inherent molecular mechanism, which is not well understood. The present study employed the RNA-Seq method to generate transcriptome profiles of the wheat Norin 10 in response to elevated CO<sub>2sub> in comparison with ambient CO<sub>2sub>. The 10 895 787 high-quality clean reads of Norin 10 were assembled de novo using Trinity (without a reference genome) resulting in a total of 18 206 candidate transcripts with significant BLAST matches. GO enrichment analysis of Norin 10 at different CO<sub>2sub> concentrations showed that some functional genes related to plastids, precursor metabolites, and energy, thylakoid and photosynthesis were apparently enriched at elevated CO<sub>2sub> (550 µmol mol<sup>−1sup>) in contrast to that at ambient CO<sub>2sub> (400 µmol mol<sup>−1sup>); these findings were further confirmed by RT-PCR analysis. The findings demonstrated the specific effects of elevated CO<sub>2sub> during long-term period in free air CO<sub>2sub> enrichment (FACE) on transcriptome response of the high yielding wheat variety, Norin 10, which has a large spike.