Gene-expression profile of developing pollen tube of Pyrus bretschneideri.

Hongsheng Zhou, Hao Yin, Jianqing Chen, Xing Liu, Yongbin Gao, Juyou Wu, Shaoling Zhang

Gene expression patterns : GEP 2016 Jan

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Pollen is an ideal model system for investigation of cell growth. In order to better understand the molecular biology mechanisms of the process of pear pollen tube development, RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) technology was used to characterize the expression of genes during four development stages of pear pollen, including mature pollen grains (MP), hydrated pollen grains (HP), growing pollen tubes (PT) and stopped-growth pollen tubes (SPT). The four libraries generated a total of 47,072,151 clean reads that were mapped and assembled into 21,394 genes. Transcripts from the four stages were classified into 38 functional subcategories. Between MP and HP, 305 genes were differentially expressed, and 502 genes were differentially expressed between HP and PT. More importantly, we have observed that 2208 genes were differentially expressed between PT and SPT, and this is the first report of the gene expression comparison between the two development stages. Eight of the differentially expressed genes were randomly selected to confirm the RNA-Seq results by quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR). Taken together, this research provides a platform for future research on pear pollen tube growth and growth cessation. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Hongsheng Zhou, Hao Yin, Jianqing Chen, Xing Liu, Yongbin Gao, Juyou Wu, Shaoling Zhang. Gene-expression profile of developing pollen tube of Pyrus bretschneideri. Gene expression patterns : GEP. 2016 Jan;20(1):11-21