Project description:Exploring miRNA-related antisense transcription in Arabidopsis through RNA transcript profiling of smRNA pathway-defective mutants on a custom high-resolution oligonucleotide array.
Project description:rs04-09_hahb4 - water stress - We want to know which genes are over-expressed or down regulated in Arabidopsis plants transformed with the sunflower hahb-4 homeodomain transcription factor with respect to non transformed ones in control and water stress conditions. This gene, hahb4, confers drought tolerance to transgenic Arabidopsis plants. - Overexpression of the hahb4 gene vs vector transformed control Keywords: gene knock in (transgenic),treated vs untreated comparison
Project description:Freshwater is a limited and dwindling global resource; therefore, efficient water use is required for food crops that have high water demands, such as rice, or for the production of sustainable energy biomass. We show here that expression of the Arabidopsis HARDY (HRD) gene in rice improves water use efficiency, the ratio of biomass produced to the water used, by enhancing photosynthetic assimilation and reducing transpiration. These drought tolerant low-water-consuming rice plants exhibit increased shoot biomass under well irrigated conditions and an adaptive increase in root biomass under drought stress. The HRD gene, an AP2/ERF-like transcription factor, identified by a gain-of-function Arabidopsis mutant hrd-D having roots with enhanced strength, branching, and cortical cells, exhibits drought resistance and salt tolerance, accompanied by an enhancement in the expression of abiotic stress associated genes. Although HRD overexpression in Arabidopsis produces thicker leaves with more chloroplast-bearing mesophyll cells, in rice there is an increase in leaf biomass and bundle sheath cells that probably contribute to the enhanced photosynthesis assimilation and efficiency. HRD overexpression was also studied for clues of molecular mechanisms involved using microarrays. The results exemplify application of a gene identified from the model plant Arabidopsis for the improvement of water use efficiency coincident with drought resistance in the crop plant rice. Keywords: Genetic modification transcription factor overexpression mutant
Project description:These ChIP-seq data files are part of a study where a comparison was made between the change in transcription and H3K4 mono-, di-, and tri-methylation levels in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome when plants are subjected to water deficit stress. Keywords: stress response, histone modification
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of 6-day-old seedlings of Arabidopsis wild type control and mutants is performed using Affymetrix IVT Arabidopsis ATH1 Genome Array.
Project description:To investigate the response of poplar hybrids to drought, leaves were collected from plants to which water was suspended for 8 and 13 days. After measuring the respective relative water content, RNAs were isolated from leaves of moderately and severely droughted plants and from control plants, and Illumina RNA sequencing was performed to analyze RNA synthesis in these tissues. Transcriptional profiling of leaves of poplar plants subjected to 8 or 13 days of water deprivation. Sequence data were generated by deep sequencing, on four replicates (2 per 2 hybrids), using Illumina HiSeq2000.