Investigating the links between organic acid and carbohydrate regulation of gene expression.. Arabidopsis thaliana

Arabidopsis acetate non-utilizing mutants were isolated based on fluoroacetate resistant germination. Interestingly, a number of these mutants exhibited altered developmental characteristics in response to exogenous sucrose supply, such as bleaching of the cotyledons. A preliminary microarray experiment has already been conducted on one of the mutants, acn1-2. The gene expression analysis was done using 3 day-old seedlings of acn1-2 and the parent, Col-7, which were germinated on agar plates with and without exogenous sucrose. A cross-comparison of acn1-2 and Col-7 revealed that the expression of a number of carbohydrate responsive genes was altered in the mutant. The request for further microarray analysis is to confirm this result. Keywords: gene_knock_out Overall design: Number of plants pooled:3 x 1000 seedlings