Expression data from panicle in heat tolerant and heat susceptible rice under high temperature stress

To better understand the mechanisms that regulate the heat stress response in rice, we conducted a comparative analysis of transcriptome profile in panicles from two rice lines, heat-tolerant line 252 (HTL252) and heat-susceptible line 082 (HSL082) using rice Affymetrix GeneChip. In HTL252 panicles, 1538 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) genes with at least four-fold expression changes compared with the control under heat treatment were considered heat-responsive (HR). Of these DEGs, 522 genes were up-regulated while 1016 genes were repressed. Among DEGs in HSL082, 496 genes were induced and 1707 genes were repressed. Out of the 370 common DEGs found between HTL252 and HSL082, 129 genes were induced and 241 genes were repressed. After continuous high temperature treatment for 5d from both lines and each treatment type, panicles were collected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays,For each sample ,three biological replicates.