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Annotated Bibliography On Chickpea

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Annotated Bibliography Name: Student ID: Lab Section: Thesis Statement Investigating the genetic changes that lead to physiological responses in plants to water stress can help researchers develop crop varieties that have greater water usage efficiency and can grow successfully under drought conditions. Molina, C., Rotter, B., Horres, R., Udupa, S. M., Besser, B., Bellarmino, L., Baum, M., Matsumura, H., Terauchi, R., Kahl, G. and Winter, P. (2008). SuperSAGE: the drought stress-responsive transcriptome of chickpea roots. BMC Genomics 9:553. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-553 The main research question addressed by the authors is whether the Super SAGE technique can be used to determine the transcriptome of the chickpea that enables it to

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