Differential expression profiling between two maize internodes identifies genes involved in cell wall biogenesis

ABSTRACT: Despite the economic importance of grasses as food, feed and energy crops, little is known about the genes that control their cell wall synthesis, assembly and remodelling. Here we provide a detailed transcriptome analysis that allowed the identification of genes involved in grass cell wall biogenesis. Differential gene-expression profiling, using maize oligonucleotide arrays, was used to identify genes differentially expressed between an elongating internode, containing cells exhibiting primary cell wall synthesis, and an internode that had just ceased elongation and in which many cells were depositing secondary cell wall material. This is one of only few studies specifically aimed at the identification of cell wall-related genes in grasses. Analysis identified new candidate genes for

ORGANISM(S): Zea mays

SUBMITTER: Maurice Bosch 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-24014 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress