Transcriptomes of eight Arabidopsis thaliana accessions reveal core conserved, genotype- and organ-specific responses to flooding stress

Arabidopsis, at the 10 leaf stage, was given kept under control growth conditions, complete darkness, or complete darkness together with complete submergence for 4 hours. These treatments were given to eight accession varying in tolerance to complete submergence, namely Cvi-0, Bay-0, Ita-0, Col(gl), Kas-1, Lp2-6, Ws-2, C24. Additionally, both roots or entire shoots were harvested. Overall this allowed the identification of conserved responses to darkness and submergence in addition to variation in the transcriptomic response potentially related to tolerance to complete submergence. An additional layer of post transcriptional regulation (alternative splicing) was also uncovered by this data.