Project description:TranscriptoTranscriptome profiling using DNA microarrays of the aerial parts of the wild-type and other plants was conducted to examine if either MYB overexpression or flavonoid overaccumulation is responsible for the expression of stress-related genes involved in both the biotic and abiotic stress response. Comparative transcriptome analysis using DNA microarray in flavonoid overaccumulating and lacking Arabidopsis.
Project description:Maintenance of the root-meristem is determined by polar auxin transport (PAT) and asymmetric cell division (ACD). We find that flavonoids scutellarin and scutellarein, which both have 6-hydroxyl group that differs in its structure from all known-flavonoid PAT inhibitors, promote PAT and ACD in Arabidopsis thaliana root tip, and increase root length. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression under scutellarin and mock (DMSO) treatment and identified distinct classes of genes regulated by scutellarin.