Transcriptional analysis of highly syntenic regions between Medicago truncatula and Glycine max using tiling microarrays.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Legumes are the third largest family of flowering plants and are unique among crop species in their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. As a result of recent genome sequencing efforts, legumes are now one of a few plant families with extensive genomic and transcriptomic data available in multiple species. The unprecedented complexity and impending completeness of these data create opportunities for new approaches to discovery.

Results

We report here a transcriptional analysis in six different organ types of syntenic regions totaling approximately 1 Mb between the legume plants barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) and soybean (Glycine max) using oligonucleotide tiling microarrays. This analysis detected transcription of over 80% of the predicted genes in both specie

SUBMITTER: Li L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2397509 | biostudies-literature | 2008

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature