Brachypodium distachyon, Bd21 RNA-Seq - Conserved Poaceae Specific Genes Project

ABSTRACT: The Poaceae family, also known as the grasses, includes agronomically important cereal crops such as rice, maize, sorghum, and wheat. Previous comparative studies have shown that much of the gene content is shared among the grasses; however, functional conservation of orthologous genes has yet to be explored. To gain an understanding of the genome-wide patterns of evolution of gene expression across reproductive tissues, we employed a sequence-based approach to compare analogous transcriptomes in species representing three Poaceae subgroups including the Pooideae (Brachypodium distachyon), the Panicoideae (sorghum), and the Ehrhartoideae (rice). Our transcriptome analyses reveal that only a fraction of orthologous genes exhibit conserved expression patterns. A high proportion of conserved

INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx

ORGANISM(S): Brachypodium distachyon

SUBMITTER: Robin Buell 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-4401 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress