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Expression of cell-wall related genes is highly variable and correlates with sepal morphologyuse asterix (*) to get italics
Diego A. Hartasánchez, Annamaria Kiss, Virginie Battu, Charline Soraru, Abigail Delgado-Vaquera, Florian Massinon, Marina Brasó-Vives, Corentin Mollier, Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette, Arezki Boudaoud, Françoise MonégerPlease use the format "First name initials family name" as in "Marie S. Curie, Niels H. D. Bohr, Albert Einstein, John R. R. Tolkien, Donna T. Strickland"
2023
<p style="text-align: justify;">Control of organ morphology is a fundamental feature of living organisms. There is, however, observable variation in organ size and shape within a given genotype. Taking the sepal of Arabidopsis as a model, we investigated whether we can use variability of gene expression alongside variability of organ morphology to identify gene regulatory networks potentially involved in organ size and shape determination. We produced a dataset composed of morphological parameters and genome-wide transcriptome obtained from 27 individual sepals from wild-type plants with nearly identical genetic backgrounds, environment, and developmental stage. Sepals exhibited appreciable variability in both morphology and transcriptome, with response to stimulus genes and cell-wall related genes displaying high variability in expression. We additionally identified five modules of co-expressed genes which correlated significantly with morphology, revealing biologically relevant gene regulatory networks. Interestingly, cell-wall related genes were overrepresented in two of the top three modules. Overall, our work highlights the benefit of using coupled variation in gene expression and phenotype in wild-type plants to shed light on the mechanisms underlying organ size and shape determination. Although causality between gene expression and sepal morphology has not been established, our approach opens the way to informed analysis for mutant characterization and functional studies.</p>
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB52917, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6559804You should fill this box only if you chose 'All or part of the results presented in this preprint are based on data'. URL must start with http:// or https://
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Organ morphology, Arabidopsis, Cell wall genes, Gene regulatory networks
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Bioinformatics, Epigenomics, Plants
Sandra Cortijo <Sandra.CORTIJO@cnrs.fr>, Angela Hay <hay@mpipz.mpg.de>, Yuling Jiao <yljiao@genetics.ac.cn>, Jennifer Lachowiec <jennifer.lachowiec@montana.edu>, Ross Sozzani <ross_sozzani@ncsu.edu> No need for them to be recommenders of PCI Genomics. Please do not suggest reviewers for whom there might be a conflict of interest. Reviewers are not allowed to review preprints written by close colleagues (with whom they have published in the last four years, with whom they have received joint funding in the last four years, or with whom they are currently writing a manuscript, or submitting a grant proposal), or by family members, friends, or anyone for whom bias might affect the nature of the review - see the code of conduct
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2023-03-14 19:10:15
Francois Sabot