Transcription profiling of Arabidopsis circadian and light signaling mutants lux-2, lhy and phyB-9 in a time series over either intermediate or short days

Arabidopsis thaliana circadian and light signaling mutants have long hypocotyls under light/dark cycles. In order to determine if aberrant hypocotyl growth is due to time of day specific miss-expression of growth associated transcripts we conducted time course microarray experiments in the lux-2, lhy and phyB-9 mutants. The mutants and their parental genotypes were grown on plates under either intermediate days (12 hours light and 12 hours dark) for lux-2, or short day (8 hrs of light and 16 hrs of dark) for lhy and phyB-9, for seven days and tissue was collected every four hours over one day.

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