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The Arabidopsis spaceflight transcriptome: a comparison of whole plants to discrete root, hypocotyl and shoot responses to the orbital environment

ABSTRACT: Arabidopsis thaliana was evaluated for its response to the spaceflight environment in three replicated experiments on the International Space Station. Two approaches were used; GFP reporter genes were used to collect gene expression data in real time within unique GFP imaging hardware, and plants were harvested on orbit to RNAlater for subsequent analyses of gene expression with using Affymetrix and SAGE transcriptome analyses. Three tissue types were examined (leaves, hypocotyls and roots) and compared to analyses conducted with whole plants. Transcriptome analyses with whole plants suggested that the spaceflight environment had little impact on the transcriptome of arabidopsis, however, closer examination of selected tissues revealed that there are a number of tissue-specific responses that arabidopsis employs to respond to this novel environment

ORGANISM(S): Arabidopsis thaliana

SUBMITTER: Robert Ferl

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-1264 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Organ-specific remodeling of the Arabidopsis transcriptome in response to spaceflight.

Paul Anna-Lisa AL Zupanska Agata K AK Schultz Eric R ER Ferl Robert J RJ

BMC plant biology 20130807

<h4>Background</h4>Spaceflight presents a novel environment that is outside the evolutionary experience of terrestrial organisms. Full activation of the International Space Station as a science platform complete with sophisticated plant growth chambers, laboratory benches, and procedures for effective sample return, has enabled a new level of research capability and hypothesis testing in this unique environment. The opportunity to examine the strategies of environmental sensing in spaceflight, w ...[more]

PMID: 23919896

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The Arabidopsis spaceflight transcriptome: a comparison of whole plants to discrete root, hypocotyl and shoot responses to the orbital environment

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Organ-specific remodeling of the Arabidopsis transcriptome in response to spaceflight.

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