Project description:Three 2cm segments were excised from different parts (TOP, MID, BOT) along the vertical axis of a 4 week old (25cm) stem of flax (L. usitatissimum) were compared using a cDNA amplicon array. Each segment represented a different developmental stage, especially in relation to bast fibre differentiation (i.e. TOP= elongation, MID=transition, BOT= thickening). Only the cDNAs that showed the highest differential expression were sequenced.
Project description:Performances of flax gene expression analyses were compared in two categories of Nimblegen microarrays (short 25-mers oligonucleotides and long 60-mers oligonucleotides) Results obtained in this study are described in Intra-platform comparison of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) high-density Nimblegen DNA microarrays submitted to Journal of Computational Biology We compared two categories of flax target probes: short (25-mers) oligonucleotides and long (60-mers) oligonucleotides in identical conditions of target production, design, labelling, hybridization, image analyses, and data filtering. This comparison was realized with two different flax samples and each RNA sample was used for the two categories of arrays. Experiments were realized in order to discriminate specific gene expression profiles of two different flax tissues (outer and inner stem tissues).
Project description:We developped a new oligo microarray platform to analyse flax transcriptome. Here, we validated this microarray on several tissues of flax, at different developmental stages.
Project description:We developped a new oligo microarray platform to analyse flax transcriptome. Here, we validated this microarray on several tissues of flax, at different developmental stages. 30 chips study using total RNA from 9 different tissue samples of Flax (Leaf sample at green capsule stage, stem inner tissue at vegetavie stage, stem outter tissue at vegetative stage, stem inner tissue at green capsule stage, stem outter tissue at green capsule stage, roots, embryos of 10, 20 and 40 days after flowering) for an overall survey of microarry accuracy and total RNA from 6 stem tissue at green capsule stage (3 of the cultivar 'Belinka' and 3 of the cultivar 'Drakkar') for an analysis of biological replicates reproducibility.
Project description:We used RNAseq to compare transcript expression patterns in two segments of the vegetative stem of 14d flax plants, from which all visible leaves had been removed. The segments were: (i) the apical region (AR) of the shoot apex, which contained the apical-most 0.5 mm of the stem, including the SAM and its immediate derivatives; and (ii) the basal region (BR), which contained the entire stem except for the apical-most 1 cm, and therefore represented all stem and vascular tissues at later stages of differentiation as compared to the AR. These data will help identify genes that contribute to specification of phloem fiber identity.
