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Genetic subtraction profiling identifies genes essential for Arabidopsis reproduction and reveals interaction between the female gametophyte and the maternal sporophyte

Amal J Johnston* 1,3 email, Patrick Meier* 1 email, Jacqueline Gheyselinck1 email, Samuel EJ Wuest1 email, Michael Federer1 email, Edith Schlagenhauf1 email, Jörg D Becker2 email and Ueli Grossniklaus1 email

1Institute of Plant Biology and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zollikerstrasse, University of Zürich, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland

2Centro de Biologia do Desenvolvimento, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Rua da Quinta Grande, PT-2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal

3Current address: Institute of Plant Sciences and Zürich-Basel Plant Science Center, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

Genome Biology 2007, 8:R204doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-10-r204

Published: 3 October 2007

Subject areas: Plant biology, Development, Genome studies


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Additional data file 1:

Presented is a table listing the gene validation for embryo sac expression.

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Additional data file 2:

Presented is a list of the identity of embryo sac expressed genes, as revealed by genetic subtraction of coa from the wild type.

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Presented is a list of embryo sac expressed genes, identified by a reanalysis of the previously published dataset using the spl mutant [34].

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Additional data file 4:

Presented is a list of genes from this work that were previously identified as being essential for reproductive development.

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Presented is a list of those genes that were found to be over-expressed in the carpel and ovule tissues of coa and spl in the absence of an embryo sac.

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Illustrated is the scale of gene discovery by three independent methods across two types of datasets from two mutants.

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Presented is a table summarizing gene identities and the statistical treatments, confirming the necessity of different statistical treatments to identify embryo sac expressed genes.

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Additional data file 8:

Listed are the identifiers of maize and wheat ESTs from the embryo sac cell types, which were used in BLAST analysis of Arabidopsis proteins.

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Provided are details of previously reported transcriptome datasets used in data comparison.

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Described is the methodology employed for transcriptional profiling by oligonucleotide array.

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Additional data file 11:

Listed are the primers used for mutant genotyping, probes for mRNA in situ hybridization and RT-PCR.

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