Comparative transcriptomic analysis of developing cotton cotyledons and embryo axis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As a by product of higher value cotton fibre, cotton seed has been increasingly recognised to have excellent potential as a source of additional food, feed, biofuel stock and even a renewable platform for the production of many diverse biological molecules for agriculture and industrial enterprises. The large size difference between cotyledon and embryo axis that make up a cotton seed results in the under-representation of embryo axis gene transcript levels in whole seed embryo samples. Therefore, the determination of gene transcript levels in the cotyledons and embryo axes separately should lead to a better understanding of metabolism in these two developmentally diverse tissues.

Results

A comparative study of transcriptome changes between cotton developing cotyl

SUBMITTER: Jiao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3748104 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature