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TREE GENETICS & GENOMES
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 329-339Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-006-0073-x
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microarray variability; bud development; malus x domestica borkh
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High-throughput genomic technologies are becoming more accessible to nonmodel plant species, and therefore, tissue collected outside controlled environments is being increasingly used for microarray analyses. In this study, we present a 15,720-feature apple microarray analysis of the variability of gene expression in buds from field-grown apple trees. Tree-to-tree and day-to-day variances were assessed during two different seasons: summer, when the meristems in the buds were undergoing the first stages of floral development, and autumn, when the buds were undergoing transition to winter dormancy. We found that apple trees with the same scion and rootstock cultivars, grown in a standard orchard environment, had small tree-to-tree variation. Gene expression differences caused by season was the dominant cause of variance while using false discovery rate control with a threshold of alpha*=0.01 to select significantly different expression between genes. At this threshold, the environmental and location effects accounted for less than 10% of the genes selected. Consequently, we have shown that field microarray experiments are a viable approach for measuring seasonal changes in gene expression during apple bud development.
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