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Detecting Drought Regulators using Stochastic Inference in Bayesian Networks
April 2021 • Aditya Lahiri, Lin Zhou, Ping He, Aniruddha Datta
Abstract Drought is a natural hazard that affects crops by inducing water stress. Water stress, induced by drought, accounts for more loss in crop yield than all the other causes combined. With the increasing frequency and intensity of droughts worldwide, it is essential to develop drought-resistant crops to ensure food security. In this paper, we model multiple drought signaling pathways in Arabidopsis using Bayesian networks to identify potential regulators of drought-responsive reporter genes. Genetically inter…