Project description:Hybrid matings between A. thaliana and A. arenosa result in post zygotic seed lethality resulting in hybridization barrier between the two species. This barrier can be overcome to a large degree by increasing the genome dosage of the maternal genome (i.e. A. thaliana) in a cross between the two species. In this experiment we assayed the transcriptome of an incompatible cross (2x At x 2x Aa) with high seed lethality and a compatible cross (4x At x 2x Aa) using silique tissue at 5 days after pollination. We used microarrays to identify dosage responsive gene in interspecies hybridization Keywords: differential expression
Project description:Ecotype-specific differences in genome methylation were assayed in Arabidopsis Col and Ler variations using genomic tiling microarrays. Comparative genome hybridization was also performed so that the contribution of ecotype-specific amplifications and deletions could be estimated and integrated into the analysis of differential DNA methylation. Keywords: methylation analysis and comparative genome hybridization