Wheat is the most widely cultivated crop in the world, with over 215 million hectares grown annually. The 10+ Wheat Genomes Project recently sequenced and assembled to chromosome-level the genomes of nine wheat cultivars, uncovering genetic diversity and selection within the pan-genome of wheat. Here, we provide a wheat pan-transcriptome with de novo annotation and differential expression analysis for these wheat cultivars across multiple tissues. Using the de novo annotations we identify cultivar-specific genes and define the core and dispensable genomes. Expression analysis across cultivars and tissues reveals conservation in expression between a large core set of homeologous genes, in addition to widespread changes in subgenome homeolog expression bias between cultivars and cultivar-specific expression profiles. We utilise both the newly constructed gene-based wheat pan-genome and pan-transcriptome, demonstrating variation in the prolamin superfamily and immune-reactive proteins across cultivars.
FörderungenBMBF BBSRC National Capability in Genomics and Single Cell Analysis Earlham Institute Strategic Programme Grant Decoding Biodiversity Norwich Research Park Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership grant Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide MEXT JSPS KAKENHI Swiss National Science Foundation Japan Science and Technology Agency UZH Global Strategy and Partnerships Funding Scheme of the University of Zurich RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)