Journal article
PlaNet: Combined sequence and expression comparisons across plant networks derived from seven species
M Mutwil, S Klie, T Tohge, FM Giorgi, O Wilkins, MM Campbell, AR Fernie, B Usadel, Z Nikoloski, S Persson
Plant Cell | Published : 2011
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Abstract
The model organism Arabidopsis thaliana is readily used in basic research due to resource availability and relative speed of data acquisition. A major goal is to transfer acquired knowledge from Arabidopsis to crop species. However, the identification of functional equivalents of well-characterized Arabidopsis genes in other plants is a nontrivial task. It is well documented that transcriptionally coordinated genes tend to be functionally related and that such relationships may be conserved across different species and even kingdoms. To exploit such relationships, we constructed whole-genome coexpression networks for Arabidopsis and six important plant crop species. The interactive networks,..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Nicholas Provart for aid in analyzing the poplar microarray data sets and Marc Lohse for providing MapMan bins. O.W. was generously supported by a Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Canadian Graduate Scholarship. Z.N. was supported by the GoFORSYS project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Grant 0313924). The poplar microarray work was generously supported by funding from NSERC, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the University of Toronto to M. M. C. We thank the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft for financial support. Results have been achieved within the framework of the Transnational (Germany, France, and Spain) Cooperation within the PLANT-KBBE Initiative, with funding from Agence Nationale pour la Recherche, Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion.