Project description:Global gene expression pattern of different poplar tissue types were determined using a Nimblegen microarray based on JGI v1.1 gene models. All tissue except reproductive tissue were obtained from the same clone used for the poplar genome sequencing project (Populus trichocarpa Nisqually-1). Reproductive tissue were from wild Populus trichocarpa trees.
Project description:Global gene expression pattern of phloem and xylem tissue were determined using a Nimblegen microarray based on JGI v1.1 gene models. Xylem tissue from both Populus trichocarpa Nisqually-1 and Populus tremula X Populus alba hybrid were used in the study.
Project description:Abiotic stress is a major factor affecting the growth, development, yield and quality in plants including the important biomass yield such as in a bioenergy feedstock crops. In a first of its kind, RNA-seq based high resolution survey of abiotic stress-induced transcriptome of bioenergy feedstock model plant western poplar (Populus trichocarpa accesion Nisqually-1) was carried out by way of 81 libraries made from total RNA isolated from three tissues, mature vascular leaf, stem xylem and root sampled from plants subjected to untreated control and treated with four individual stress treatments cold, heat, drought and high salinity. For every tissue and treatment type including controls, three individual plants were used per treatment as biological replicates. This research project is supported by the DOE Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), USA, grant no. DE-SC0008570