Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is important to food security and is also an excellent model plant for numerous cereal crops. A functional genomics study in rice includes characterization of the expression dynamics of genes by quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) analysis; this is a significant key for developing rice varieties that perform well in the face of adverse climate change. The qPCR analysis requires the use of appropriate reference genes in order to make any quantitative interpretations meaningful. Here, the new potential reference genes were selected from a huge public database of rice microarray experiments. The expression stability of 14 candidates and 4 conventional reference genes was validated by geNorm PLUS and NormFinder software. Seven candidates are superior to the conventionally used reference genes in qPCR and three genes can be used reliably for quantitating the expression of genes involved in abiotic stress responses. These high-quality references EP (LOC_Os05g08980), HNR (LOC_Os01g71770), and TBC (LOC_Os09g34040) worked very well in three indica genotypes and one japonica genotype. One of indica genotypes including the Jasmine rice, KDML105 developed in Thailand for which no reference genes have been reported until now.

To understand the molecular responses of Thai jasmine rice (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica cv. KDML105) under drought, proteomes of KDML105 cultivars and two check cultivars, namely NSG19 (tolerant) and IR20 (sensitive) were investigated. The effect of PEG6000 and mannitol for creating osmotic stress ( 0.1 MPa to 2.1 MPa) was tested in KDML105 before applied to the three cultivars. The leaf proteomes were analyzed by GeLC-MS/MS shotgun proteomics. Among 623 proteins identified, 53 proteins showed significant difference in protein expressions, which could be hierarchically classified into three clusters of proteins up-regulated in IR20, NSG19, or in KDML105. Coronatine-insensitive 1 protein that thought to be involved in stomatal closing was prominently observed in NSG19, regarding to its physiology of rapid stomatal closing and highest stability of photosystem II. WD-40 repeat protein which involves in cell death was induced in IR20. On the other hand, H-protein promoter binding factor-2a remarkably increased in KDML105.

Red rice MD exhibits higher nutrient values compared to white rice KDML and the appropriate germination of brown rice could represent a method for improving health-related benefits. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry.

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