Project description:Two fruit development stages of the wild chiltepin pepper (Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum) were studied. RNA-Seq data was obtained from fruits at 20 and 68 days after anthesis with two biological replicates for a total of 4 samples. 260 million raw reads were sequenced and over 80% of them mapped back to the Capsicum annuum genome.
Project description:The colonization of Capsicum annuum roots by Fusarium oxysporum Fo47 induces resistance responses on the plant. Fo47 is a non-pathogenic strain of Fusarium oxysporum. Fo47 colonizes only the most outer layers of the root surface but it does not colonize inner tissues. Pre-treatment of roots with Fo47 reduces the symptom development produced by later pathogen inoculation. The expression of genes in distal tissues was determined by microarray analysis of stems of Fo47-treated plants. Capsicum annuum samples were analyzed using Affymetrix chips of the close-related species Solanum lycopersicum.