Oryza sativa Japonica Group Transcriptome or Gene expression. Oryza sativa Japonica Group

Japonica rice cultivar Nipponbare was inoculated with wheat leaf rust (Puccinia triticina f. sp. tritici, non-host pathogen to rice) to compare gene expression profiles with mock-inoculated controls. Although eventually failed in invasion, leaf rust induced a set of rice genes that were distinctally up-regulated, some of those were confirmed by quantitative real-time PCR assays. Overall design: Rice leaves were heavily inoculated with a non-host pathogen, wheat leaf rust fungus, and compared with mock inoculation with 3 biological replications.