PlantSPEAD: a web resource towards comparatively analysing stress-responsive expression of splicing-related proteins in plant.

Abstract

Alternative splicing (AS) enhances transcriptome plasticity and proteome diversity in response to diverse growth and stress cues, which places AS at the crossroads of adaptation and environmental stress response (Chen et al., 2019a; Kuang et al., 2017). In recent years, the high-throughput sequencing-based analysis of plant transcriptomes has shown that this alternatively spliced mRNA processing is pervasive across plant species, with more than 80% and 70% of intron-containing genes producing different isoforms in Arabidopsis and rice, respectively (Chen et al., 2019b; Zhu et al., 2017).