Transcriptomes of imbibed and dry soybean embryonic axes stored for 3, 19, and 22 years

We looked for differences in the transcriptomes of imbibing soybean axes that were either recently harvested and expected to germinate, or aged in dry storage and expected to not germinate. It is unclear what of the many changes that occur in seeds in the dry state might be responsible for the loss of germination capacity. Since we previously found the dry transcriptomes in fresh and aged seeds were not significantly different, we decided to see whether different metabolic pathways get activated in aged seeds upon imbibiition.