Genome wide analysis of glucose brassinosteroid interaction in Arabidopsis

Arabidopsis thaliana seeds after imbibition were inoculated in ½ MS medium supplemented with 0.8% agar and 1% sucrose. Once the plant material was uniformly germinated, the experimental conditions were applied. 5d old light-grown uniformly germinated seedlings were washed seven times with sterile water with last wash given by ½ MS liquid medium without sucrose to remove residual exogenous sugar and the plant material was kept in ½ MS liquid without sucrose in the dark for all subsequent steps. Cultures were shaken at 140 rpm at 22oC for 24 h and then 3 h treatment was given with liquid ½ MS without glucose and liquid ½ MS supplemented with BR (0.1 ?M EBR), glucose (3%), glucose (3%) + BR (0.1 ?M EBR). Seedlings were harvested after 3h and preceded for RNA isolation and Microarray analysis.

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