ERP014586 PRJEB13048 E-MTAB-4559 Genetic response of maize silk to pollen tubes growth in comparison to fungal invasion. In this study, RNA-seq based comparative transcriptome analysis was used to study the genetic response of maize silk to pollen tube penetration and in comparison to the fungal invasion of Fusarium graminearum and Ustilago maydis. RNA-seq libraries of 8 tissues were generated from leaf, root, seed, pollen tube, silk, pollinated silk, infected silk with Fusarium and infected silk with Ustilago. In this study, RNA-seq based comparative transcriptome analysis was used to study the genetic response of maize silk to pollen tube penetration and in comparison to the fungal invasion of Fusarium graminearum and Ustilago maydis. RNA-seq libraries of 8 tissues were generated from leaf, root, seed, pollen tube, silk, pollinated silk, infected silk with Fusarium and infected silk with Ustilago. E-MTAB-4559 in ArrayExpress http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress/experiments/E-MTAB-4559 ENA-FIRST-PUBLIC 2019-03-17 ENA-LAST-UPDATE 2016-03-15 ArrayExpress E-MTAB-4559