<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<EXPERIMENT_SET xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881755" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 10_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881755</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 10_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420656">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420656</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813696</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 10_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>apple rubbery wood virus 1</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881756" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 6_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881756</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 6_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420657">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420657</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813697</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 6_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>apple rubbery wood virus 1</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881757" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 7_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881757</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 7_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420658">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420658</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813698</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 7_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>apple rubbery wood virus 1</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881758" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 8_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881758</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 8_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420659">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420659</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813699</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 8_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>apple rubbery wood virus 1</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881759" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 1_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881759</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 1_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420660">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420660</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813700</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 1_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>none</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881760" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 2_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881760</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 2_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420661">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420661</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813701</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 2_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>none</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881761" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 3_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881761</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 3_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420662">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420662</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813702</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 3_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>none</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881762" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 4_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881762</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 4_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420663">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420663</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813703</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 4_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>none</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881763" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 5_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881763</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 5_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420664">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420664</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813704</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 5_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>none</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
  <EXPERIMENT accession="ERX7881764" alias="E-MTAB-11409:Sample 9_s" broker_name="ArrayExpress" center_name="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">
    <IDENTIFIERS>
      <PRIMARY_ID>ERX7881764</PRIMARY_ID>
      <SUBMITTER_ID namespace="UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER">E-MTAB-11409:Sample 9_s</SUBMITTER_ID>
    </IDENTIFIERS>
    <TITLE>NextSeq 550 sequencing; Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</TITLE>
    <STUDY_REF accession="ERP135203">
      <IDENTIFIERS>
        <PRIMARY_ID>ERP135203</PRIMARY_ID>
        <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioProject">PRJEB50607</EXTERNAL_ID>
      </IDENTIFIERS>
    </STUDY_REF>
    <DESIGN>
      <DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>Flexible wood caused by altered lignin, following viral-induced suppression of phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) activity. sRNA-seq</DESIGN_DESCRIPTION>
      <SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR accession="ERS10420665">
        <IDENTIFIERS>
          <PRIMARY_ID>ERS10420665</PRIMARY_ID>
          <EXTERNAL_ID namespace="BioSample">SAMEA12813705</EXTERNAL_ID>
        </IDENTIFIERS>
      </SAMPLE_DESCRIPTOR>
      <LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
        <LIBRARY_NAME>Sample 9_s</LIBRARY_NAME>
        <LIBRARY_STRATEGY>miRNA-Seq</LIBRARY_STRATEGY>
        <LIBRARY_SOURCE>TRANSCRIPTOMIC</LIBRARY_SOURCE>
        <LIBRARY_SELECTION>RT-PCR</LIBRARY_SELECTION>
        <LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
          <SINGLE/>
        </LIBRARY_LAYOUT>
        <LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>RNA was extracted from 10 mg of stem material. 6 uninfected and 6 infected graft segments were used. After removing the bark, whole xylem segments were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. Newly differentiating xylem was scraped from frozen xylem segments and then ground into a fine powder using a mortar and pestle with liquid nitrogen. Apple stem material was propagated from 2 uninfected and 2 ARW-infected Lord Lambourne apple trees, which was provided by the East Malling Research Station, Kent, UK in 1996. Budwood was grafted onto M27 rootstocks using the 'whip and tongue' grafting method (Bradley &amp; Garner, 2013) in April 2017. Grafts were kept in a glass house at 22°C and one-year old stem material was harvested the following year for analysis. Qiagen RNAeasy Plant Power kit to extract RNA from ground xylem samples. DNA was removed with the Qiagen DNAse Max kit. NEBNext Small RNA Library Prep</LIBRARY_CONSTRUCTION_PROTOCOL>
      </LIBRARY_DESCRIPTOR>
    </DESIGN>
    <PLATFORM>
      <ILLUMINA>
        <INSTRUMENT_MODEL>NextSeq 550</INSTRUMENT_MODEL>
      </ILLUMINA>
    </PLATFORM>
    <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
      <EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
        <TAG>Experimental Factor: infect</TAG>
        <VALUE>none</VALUE>
      </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTE>
    </EXPERIMENT_ATTRIBUTES>
  </EXPERIMENT>
</EXPERIMENT_SET>
