Changes in gene expression in the bark of MIR15

Illumina HiSeq technology was used to generate mRNA profiles of bark from MIR15 compared to wildtype plants. Wild type (WT) and transgenic poplars (Populus tremula x P. alba, clone INRA 717-1B4) were grown aseptically on Woody Plant Medium. Total RNA was extracted using Tri-Reagent according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Reads of 2X100bp were generated and aligned to Populus trichocarpa v3.0 reference transcripts (http://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov/pz/portal.html#!info?alias=Org_Ptrichocarpa; Ptrichocarpa_210_transcript_primaryTranscriptOnly) using CLC Genomics Workbench 7. mRNA profiles of bark from MIR15 compared to wildtype plants were generated by paired-end (2x100bp) Illumina HiSeq2000 sequencing. Two biological replicates were sequenced for MIR15 and WT samples.