Project description:Flowers have a species-specific fertile period during which pollination and fertilization have to occur to initiate seed and fruit development. Within the flower, the functional life span of the ovule containing the female gametophyte is decisive for fertilization and the initiation of seed development. Here we performed an RNA-sequencing based transcriptome analysis of senescing unfertilized ovules during in a time series. We isolated ovules from Arabidopsis thaliana flowers emasculated at stage 12c at three different time points: 2 days after emasculation (DAE), 3 DAE, and 4 DAE. These time points correspond to intact mature ovules (2DAE), early ovule senescence (3 DAE), and late ovule senescence (4 DAE). We extracted total RNA from the ovules in 3 independent biological replicates, thus generating 9 RNA samples in total, for RNA-sequencing by Illumina HiSeq.
Project description:Leaf development has been monitored chiefly by following anatomical markers. Analysis of transcriptome dynamics during leaf maturation revealed multiple expression patterns that rise or fall with age or that display age specific peaks. These were used to formulate a digital differentiation index (DDI), based on a set of selected markers with informative expression during leaf ontogeny. The leaf-based DDI reliably predicted the developmental state of leaf samples from diverse sources and was independent of mitotic cell division transcripts or propensity of the specific cell type. To calibrate and test the DDI a series of Arabidopsis shoot development was used (Efroni et al, 2008)
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis wild-type (Col0) control flower buds or seedlings with corresponding mutant flower buds or seedlings is performed using Aligent's Whole Arabidopsis Gene Expression Microarray (G2519F, V4, 4x44K).
