Differential gene expression in roots of tcp9 and tcp20 mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana upon Heterodera schachtii infection as measured by RNAseq

We compared the gene expression of wild-type Col-0, tcp9, tcp20, and the double mutant tcp9tcp20. We either infected or mock-infected the plants with the beet cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii and measured the root transcriptome after 24, 48, and 72 hours post infection using RNA-seq. The aim of the experiment was to determine whether the tcp mutatants affected gene expression patterns induced by nematode infection.