Global Transcripome Profiling of Salicornia europa

Global Transcripome Profiling of Salicornia europaea L.Shoots under NaCl TreatmentGlobalTranscriptomeProfilingofSalicorniaeuropaeaL.ShootsunderNaClTreatmentJinbiaoMa1,MeiruZhang1,2,XinlongXiao1,2,JinjinYou1,JunruWang1,2,TaoWang3,YinanYao1*,ChangyanTian1*1KeyLaboratoryofBiogeographyandBioresourceinAridLand,XinjiangInstituteofEcologyandGeography,ChineseAcademyofScience,Urumqi,China,2UniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences,Beijing,China,3CollegeofResourceandEnvironmentScience,XinjiangUniversity,Urumqi,ChinaAbstractBackground:Soilsalinityisamajorabioticstressthatlimitsagricultureproductivityworldwide.Salicorniaeuropaeaiswelladaptedtoextremesalineenvironmentswithmorethan1,000mMNaClinthesoil,soitcouldserveasanimportantmodelspeciesforstudyinghalophilicmechanismsineuhalophytes.Toobtaininsightsintothemolecularbasisofsalttolerance,wepresentherethefirstextensivetranscriptomeanalysisofthisspeciesusingtheIlluminaHiSeqTM2000.PrincipalFindings:Atotalof41and39millioncleanreadsfromthesalt-treated(Se200S)a