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By providing comprehensive coverage of the wheat genome, the GeneChip® Wheat Genome Array is an important tool for plant genetics. With applications in crop improvement and gene expression studies, the Wheat Genome Array can be used to study nutritional value, crop yield, and effects of environmental stresses on wheat.
- This array contains 61,127 probe sets representing 55,052 transcripts for all 42 chromosomes in the wheat genome.
- Use the Power of the Probe Set and get multiple independent measurements for each transcript that deliver the greatest accuracy and reproducibility of any microarray platform
- GeneChip® System: richer data, sharper insights, better decisions
Array Profile
The GeneChip® Wheat Genome Array offers researchers the most comprehensive and informative content for wheat gene expression research. The design of the array was based on public content from GenBank® and dbEST. Experts in wheat research provided high-quality sequence data, and the arrays were designed and manufactured with standard Affymetrix protocols.
Sequence information for the GeneChip Wheat Genome Array includes public content from Triticum aestivum UniGene Build #38 (build date April 24, 2004). Also included are ESTs from the wheat species T. monococcum, T. turgidum, and Aegilops tauschii, and GenBank full-length mRNAs from all species through May 18, 2004.
T. aestivum, the hexaploid bread wheat, contains three genomes; A, B, and D. Triticum turgidum, the tetraploid macaroni wheat species, contains the ancestral A and B genomes, whereas the diploids T. monococcum and A. tauschii contain near relatives of the A and D genomes, respectively. Thus, available content for the modern bread wheat species' three ancestral genomes is included.
Instrument and Software Requirements
- GeneChip® Scanner 3000, enabled for High-Resolution Scanning*
- GeneChip® Operating Software (GCOS) v1.1.1 or higher, which includes the GeneChip Scanner 3000 High-Resolution Scanning Patch
*GeneChip Scanner 3000 High-Resolution Update is standard on all instruments shipped starting in September 2003 with serial number series 502. Previous versions, serial number series 501, will require the 00-0110 GeneChip Scanner 3000 High-Resolution Update to be installed.
The Wheat Genome Array was created within the Affymetrix GeneChip® Consortia Program. |
