Transcriptomic studies in the development and ripening of strawberry fruits

Strawberry is an ideal model for studying the molecular biology of the development and ripening of non-climacteric fruits. By using a custom-made and high quality oligo microarray platform done with over 32000 probes including all of the genes actually described in the strawberry genome, we have analyzed the expression of genes during the development and ripening in the receptacles of these fruits. A custom-made oligo microarray (60-mer length) platform (FraGenomics 35k) containing a total of 35234 singletons corresponding to those sequences published in the strawberry genome project (http://www.strawberry.org). For each sequence, 4 different oligos were printed per block and four blocks were printed per data set. We have analyzed three control samples green fruits, a three samples red fruits.