Comparing gibberellic acid dynamics in maize and barley
In this work, we treated young leaf and floral tissues from wild type maize inbred B73, the maize gibberellic acid (GA) biosynthesis mutant, d1, and wild type barley cultivar golden promise with GA3 to test their transcriptional response to hormone treatment. Through comparative transcriptomics, we found that barley most closely resembles the maize d1 mutant, possibly reflecting the domestication and improvement history of current day dwarf varieties of barley.