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<center> | == <center> '''PROJECT 1. Regulation of early endosperm development in maize''' </center> == | ||
<div> Endosperm is biologically and economically important. Endosperm provides nutrients and signals to the embryo during seed development. Endosperm is an important source of food and industrial raw materials. Additionally, cereal endosperm is used as a raw material for numerous industrial products including ethanol. We are currently collaborating with Prof. Brian Larkins and Prof. Ramin Yadegari on a NSF funded project to study the regulation of maize early endosperm development. In this project we are using Illumina high-throughput sequencing to profile the mRNA transcriptome (RNA-Seq) to identify the core transcription factors, and build the regulatory network that controls the maize endosperm development in early stages. </div> | <div> Endosperm is biologically and economically important. Endosperm provides nutrients and signals to the embryo during seed development. Endosperm is an important source of food and industrial raw materials. Additionally, cereal endosperm is used as a raw material for numerous industrial products including ethanol. We are currently collaborating with Prof. Brian Larkins and Prof. Ramin Yadegari on a NSF funded project to study the regulation of maize early endosperm development. In this project we are using Illumina high-throughput sequencing to profile the mRNA transcriptome (RNA-Seq) to identify the core transcription factors, and build the regulatory network that controls the maize endosperm development in early stages. </div> | ||
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Endosperm is biologically and economically important. Endosperm provides nutrients and signals to the embryo during seed development. Endosperm is an important source of food and industrial raw materials. Additionally, cereal endosperm is used as a raw material for numerous industrial products including ethanol. We are currently collaborating with Prof. Brian Larkins and Prof. Ramin Yadegari on a NSF funded project to study the regulation of maize early endosperm development. In this project we are using Illumina high-throughput sequencing to profile the mRNA transcriptome (RNA-Seq) to identify the core transcription factors, and build the regulatory network that controls the maize endosperm development in early stages.
See the UA news for the description of this project at [1]
A genome browser for maize endosperm transcriptome.
We have constructed a local UCSC genome browser at UA to display the maize endosperm transcriptome.
