Comparative transcriptomic analysis of contrasting hybrid cultivars reveal key drought-responsive genes and metabolic pathways regulating drought stress tolerance in maize at various stages

• Songtao Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

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• Tinashe Zenda,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

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• Jiao Li,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

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• Yafei Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

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• Xinyue Liu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

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• Huijun Duan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hjduan@hebau.edu.cn

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0900-3884

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