Journal
DEVELOPMENT
Volume 143, Issue 7, Pages 1217-1227Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/dev.123661
Keywords
Embryogenesis; Rice; Transcriptome; Gene expression; Microarray; Microdissection
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- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (Genomics for Agricultural Innovation) [RTR0002, RTR0006]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [24380005]
- Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (Development of Genome Information Database System for Innovation of Crop and Livestock Production)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26440135, 26113503] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Embryogenesis in rice is different from that of most dicotolydonous plants in that it shows a non-stereotypic cell division pattern, formation of dorsal-ventral polarity, and endogenous initiation of the radicle. To reveal the transcriptional features associated with developmental events during rice early embryogenesis, we used microarray analysis coupled with laser microdissection to obtain both spatial and temporal transcription profiles. Our results allowed us to determine spatial expression foci for each expressed gene in the globular embryo, which revealed the importance of phytohormone-related genes and a suite of transcription factors to early embryogenesis. Our analysis showed the polarized expression of a small number of genes along the apical-basal and dorsal-ventral axes in the globular embryo, which tended to fluctuate in later developmental stages. We also analyzed gene expression patterns in the early globular embryo and how this relates to expression in embryonic organs at later stages. We confirmed the accuracy of the expression patterns found by microarray analysis of embryo subdomains using in situ hybridization. Our study identified homologous genes from Arabidopsis thaliana with known functions in embryogenesis in addition to unique and uncharacterized genes that show polarized expression patterns during embryogenesis. The results of this study are presented in a database to provide a framework for spatiotemporal gene expression during rice embryogenesis, to serve as a resource for future functional analysis of genes, and as a basis for comparative studies of plant embryogenesis.
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