Flaveria leaf
454 sequencing of leaf transcriptomes of five different Flaveria species
C4 plants evolved several times independently from C3 ancestors. To gain insight into the extent to which gene expression is altered during the C3 to C4 transition we have analyzed the leaf transcriptomes of closely related Flaveria species exhibiting a C4, C3 or C3-C4 intermediate type of photosynthesis.
To gain insight into the differences in gene expression of C3 and C4 leaves we performed RNA-seq on the leaf transcriptomes of five different Flaveria species exhibiting different modes of photosynthesis: F. bidentis C4, F. trinervia C4, F. ramosissima C3-C4 intermediate, F. robusta C3 and F. pringlei C3