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Background  Drought-tolerance ensures a crop to maintain life activities and protect cell from damages under dehydration. It refers to diverse mechanisms temporally activated when the crop adapts to drought. However, knowledge about the temporal dynamics of rice transcriptome under drought is limited.    Results  Here, we investigated temporal transcriptomic dynamics in 12 rice genotypes, which varied in drought tolerance (DT), under a naturally occurred drought in fields. The tolerant genotypes possess less differentially expressed genes (DEGs) while they have higher proportions of upregulated DEGs. Tolerant and susceptible genotypes have great differences in temporally activated biological processes (BPs) during the drought period and at the recovery stage based on their DEGs. The DT-featured BPs, which are activated specially (e.g. raffinose, fucose, and trehalose metabolic processes, etc.) or earlier in the tolerant genotypes (e.g. protein and histone deacetylation, protein peptidyl-prolyl isomerization, transcriptional attenuation, ferric iron transport, etc.) shall contribute to DT. Meanwhile, the tolerant genotypes and the susceptible genotypes also present great differences in photosynthesis and cross-talks among phytohormones under drought. A certain transcriptomic tradeoff between DT and productivity is observed. Tolerant genotypes have a better balance between DT and productivity under drought by activating drought-responsive genes appropriately. Twenty hub genes in the gene coexpression network, which are correlated with DT but without potential penalties in productivity, are recommended as good candidates for DT.    Conclusions  Findings of this study provide us informative cues about rice temporal transcriptomic dynamics under drought and strengthen our system-level understandings in rice DT.

Temporal transcriptomic differences between tolerant and susceptible genotypes contribute to rice drought tolerance