Project description:Transcriptome of Zea mays genotypes under control and stress conditions. Stress conditions include heat, cold, salt, and UV. We extracted and sequenced RNA from 14 day old seedlings of inbred lines B73, Mo17 and Oh43 grown using standard conditions as well as seedlings that had been subjected to cold (5°C for 16 hours), heat (50°C for 4 hours), high salt (watered with 300 mM NaCl 20 hours prior to collection) or UV stress (2 hours). For each stress the plants were sampled immediately following the stress treatment and there were no apparent morphological changes in these plants relative to control plants.
Project description:Large scale transcriptomics study to establish gene expression in leaf tissue of W22 inbred line in Zea Mays. RNA was extracted from leaf tissue when the plants were at V6. Sequencing library was produced following the protocol mentioned in the following publication PMID:22039485
Project description:RNA-directed DNA methylation (RdDM) in plants is a well-characterized example of RNA interference-related transcriptional gene silencing. To determine the relationships between RdDM and heterochromatin in the repeat-rich maize (Zea mays) genome, we performed whole-genome analyses of several heterochromatic features: dimethylation of lysine 9 and lysine 27 (H3K9me2 and H3K27me2), chromatin accessibility, DNA methylation, and small RNAs; we also analyzed two mutants that affect these processes, mediator of paramutation1 and zea methyltransferase2.