Transcript profiling of different Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes in response to Tobacco etch potyvirus infection. Arabidopsis thaliana

We have used a strain of Tobacco etch potyvirus (TEV) experimentally adapted to Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Ler-0 to infect a set of seven A. thaliana plant ecotypes(Col-0, Ei-2, Wt-1, ler-0, Oy-0, St-0). Each ecotype was inoculated with the same amount of the virus. Using commercial microarrays containing probes Arabidopsis thaliana ssp. Col-0 plant transcripts, we explored the effect of viral infection in the plant transcriptome Overall design: This microarray can be useful to study gene activity of Arabidopsis thaliana associated with response to virus infection. For ecotypes ST-0, Wt-1, Ler-0, Di-2 there are five biological replicates and for ecotype Oy-0 there are three. As control we used four technical replicates of each ecotype, but five for Ler-0. Rows and columns are numbered as scanned by a GenePix Scanner (barcode on the bottom, DNA on the front surface).