Project description:We developed a transcriptome resource for Douglas-fir covering key developmental stages of megagametophytes over time: prefertilization, fertilization, embryogenesis, and early, unfertilized abortion. Extracted RNA was sequenced using large-scale sequencing and reads were assembled to generate a de novo reference transcriptome of 105,505 predicted high-confidence transcripts. Expression levels were estimated based on alignment of the original reads to the reference. 200â400 megagametophytes were dissected and pooled per sample on four dates from either pollinated or unpollinated cones: June 10, June 22, June 30, and July 6 2011. These dates coincided with key events in seed development: corrosion cavity formation, fertilization, embryogenesis, or the early stages of abortion in the unpollinated treatment. Sporophytic tissue (i.e. cone bracts and cone scales) were added for comparison. PolyA RNA was used for Illumina sequencing.
Project description:The analysis of gene expression during wheat development:; Gene expression measurements were carried out on a developmental tissue; series for wild-type wheat (cv. Chinese Spring) using the Affymetrix; Wheat GeneChip. Thirteen tissues at defined developmental stages were; chosen to match the barley (cv. Morex) tissue series of Druka et al. 2006 that used the Affymetrix Barley1 GeneChip. Three replicates of:; root tissue at two different developmental stages, leaf, crown,; caryopsis, anther, pistil, inflorescence, bracts, mesocotyl, endosperm,; embryo and coleoptiles were hybridised. Comparisons between this wheat; data and the barley dataset were performed and are available at; http://contigcomp.acpfg.com.au ; [PLEXdb(http://www.plexdb.org) has submitted this series at GEO on behalf of the original contributor, Tim Sutton. The equivalent experiment is TA3 at PLEXdb.] Experiment Overall Design: tissue type: germinating seed, coleoptile(3-replications); tissue type: germinating seed, root(3-replications); tissue type: germinating seed, embryo(3-replications); tissue type: seedling, root(3-replications); tissue type: seedling, crown(3-replications); tissue type: seedling, leaf(3-replications); tissue type: immature inflorescence(3-replications); tissue type: floral bracts, before anthesis(3-replications); tissue type: pistil, before anthesis(3-replications); tissue type: anthers, before anthesis(3-replications); tissue type: 3-5 DAP caryopsis(3-replications); tissue type: 22 DAP embryo(3-replications); tissue type: 22 DAP endosperm(3-replications)
Project description:To generate novel genetic markers, we performed RNA sequencing of 10 accessions of Ae. tauschii. Transcripts were deduced from de novo assembly of short reads for each accession.