Greater sequence length would be advan tageous for mapping of the ASGR carrier chromosome transcripts to the ASGR locus. The use of the gene ontology software Blast2Go allowed comparison of both the PS26 and BC8 libraries and the PS26 EST OTHERS and BC8 EST OTHERS libraries created by using the most significant EST OTHERS BlastN result as a surrogate for our sequences. The PS26 and BC8 transcriptomes were almost identical on a level 3 biological process comparison. While many biological GO terms showed expression level differences when comparing the PS26 and BC8 libraries, all but seven became non significant when the PS26 EST OTHERS and BC8 EST OTHERS libraries were com pared. Six of the transcriptional differences noted belong to genes involved in either ribosomal or transla tional functions.

This difference may be caused by ploidy level difference of PS26 and BC8. MIRA assembly will separate alleles of genes into different contigs. More PS26 allelic transcripts for genes involved in either ribosomal or translational func tions Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries may be expressed in PS26 than in BC8 thus lead ing to a higher transcript difference between the libraries. Expression analysis of the ASGR carrier chromosome linked genes in BC8 tissue was used to identify tran scripts specific to reproductive tissue. All but two ASGR carrier chromosome transcripts showed constitu tive expression in both vegetative and reproductive tis sues. The one reproduction specific transcript did not map to the ASGR. The tran script which could be mapped to the ASGR shows simi larity to hypothetical proteins in both sorghum and rice containing a Transposase 24 domain.

Previous sequencing of BAC clones linked to the ASGR have shown a large number of both Type I and Type II trans posons at the locus, therefore, it is not surprising that we identified an ASGR linked transposon transcript in our Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries study. Conclusions Our data Drug_discovery show that the combination of selecting specific reproductive tissues and sequencing with 454 high throughput sequencing technology is a promising approach for identification of genes involved in different developmental events and that a need for longer tran Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries script contigs will be a requirement to allow for easier mapping of these transcripts.

Given the rapid advance ments in next generation sequencing technologies Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries that enable very deep sequence coverage and paired end reads, it is likely that the fine tissue dissection requiring RNA amplification of starting materials now could be eliminated to favor longer transcript assemblies. Methods Plant materials Pennisetum squamulatum and backcross line 8 line 58were used for ovule collection. Compared with the BC7 line which was used in previous studies, the BC8 line 58 contains only one alien chromosome from PS26, the ASGR carrier chromosome. P. glaucum, P.