Expression analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type Col-0 and selected RNA silencing mutant plants

Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in several Arabidopsis thaliana mutants (nrpd1, nrpe1, ros1 dml2 dml3) compared to wild-type Col-0. The mutants analyzed in this study are further described in Le et al. 'DNA demethylases target promoter transposable elements to positively regulate stress responsive genes in Arabidopsis' . Genome Biology (in press). A twelve chip study using total RNA recovered from three week-old plants grown on Murashige Skoog sucrose agar. The number of biological replicates for each plant genotype were as follows: Col-0 (3 biological replicates), rdd (2), nrpd1 (2) and nrpe1 (2) respectively. Each array contains 60-mer probes targeting 39,042 genes (TAIR 9.0) with 4 probes per gene.