Maize Gametophyte Project: maize W22 silks pollinated by maize B73 pollen

In order to study the gene expression of pollen tubes as they grow in silk after pollination, we pollinated maize W22 silks with maize B73 pollen. The recent (2016) advent of the W22 genome assembly and annotation allows us to single out RNA-seq reads originating from the pollen tubes. B73 pollen, W22 silk and B73 seedling controls were sequenced as well.

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