Project description:Maintaining genome integrity presents a particular challenge for plants due to their sedentary lifestyle, which disables direct avoidance of unfavorable external conditions. Additionally, plants’ metabolic processes generate reactive molecules as by-products of e.g. photosynthesis, creating internal DNA-damaging conditions. Due to this, plants have developed a unique and strictly regulated web of DNA damage responses (DDR). We initiated analysis of the DDR system in cultivated barley (Hordeum vulgare), a temperate cereal model with a large and repeat rich genome. A series of DNA damaging assays was established to describe barley plants’ phenotypic response to chemically induced DNA double-strand breaks. The efficacy of assays as a tool to be used for assessing potential new DDR barley mutants was demonstrated. DNA damage response network activation in barley was assessed by transcriptome analysis using RNA sequencing for wild type and mutant in the DDR signaling kinase ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA MUTATED AND RAD3-RELATED (ATR). Considering the barley genome had only recently been sequenced, and it lacks the in-depth gene analysis, a list of potential DNA damage response genes in barley was compiled based on their homology with Arabidopsis genes. The comparison of transcripts in wild-type plants and atr mutants following genotoxic stress
Project description:Drought is a destructive abiotic stress, with plants possessing diverse strategies to survive periods of limited water resources. Previous results have described connections between strigolactone (SL) and drought, however, here we used the barley (Hordeum vulgare) SL-insensitive mutant hvd14 (dwarf14) to investigate the SL-dependent mechanisms related to water deficit response. By combining transcriptome, proteome with phytohormone analyses and physiological data, we describe the drought-mediated differences between wild-type and hvd14 plants. Our findings indicate that the drought sensitivity of hvd14 is related to weaker induction of abscisic acid-responsive genes/proteins, lower jasmonic acid content, higher reactive oxygen species content, and lower wax biosynthic and deposition mechanisms then wild-type plants. In addition, we identify a series of transcription factors (TFs) that are exclusively drought-induced in wild-type barley. Critically, we resolve a comprehensive series interestions between the drought-induced barley transcriptome and proteome responses that allow us to understand the impacts of SL in mitigating water limiting conditions. These data provide a number of new angles for the development of drought-resistant barley.
Project description:A large-scale time course expression profiling of wild type (Mla12/Rar1/Rom1) and mutants (mla12-M66, M82 (rar1-1), M100 (rar1-2) and rom1) of barley cultivar Sultan 5 was conducted to understand the molecular mechanisms of delayed powdery mildew resistance. Barley plants were inoculated with powdery mildew pathogen isolate 5874. First leaves of inoculated and non-inoculated plants were harvested at six time points after pathogen inoculation. The experiment was laid out in split-split-plot design with 180 experimental units (3 replications x 2 treatments (inoculated and non-inoculated) x 5 genotypes x 6 time points).
Project description:A parallel expression profiling of wild-type and loss-of-function mutants of Mla6 and Mla1 powdery mildew resistance alleles was conducted using Barley1 GeneChip. Barley plants were inoculated with powdery mildew isolate 5874 and first leaves were harvested at 6 time points after pathogen inoculation. This experiment was conducted in split-split-plot experimental design with 3 replications.
Project description:Natural variation in the barley homolog of CENTRORADIALIS (HvCEN), was found to contribute to the expansion of barley cultivation into diverse habitats. It has been shown that induced hvcen mutants, originally designated as praematurum-c/maturity-c (mat-c) mutants, flowered a few days earlier under natural long-day conditions. All hvcen mutants flowered early and showed a reduction in spikelet number per spike, tiller number and yield in the outdoor experiments. Further evaluating development of main shoot apex of hvcen mutants and wild type under controlled long day and short day conditions showed that mutations in hvcen accelerated spikelet initiation and reduced axillary bud number in a photoperiod independent manner, but promoted floret development only under long days. In this project we investigate the pleiotropic effects of HvCEN on developmental timing and shoot and spike morphologies of barley and dependence on these effects on photoperiod. This RNAseq dataset was generated to identify the putative transcriptional targets of HvCEN. To this end, we used global transcriptome profiling in developing shoot apices and inflorescences of two allelic hvcen mutants (mat-c.907 and mat-c.943) and wild-type (Bonus) plants grown under long- and short-day photoperiods.
Project description:Protein abundance and phosphoproteome profiling of wild-type (WT) as well as quadruple mutant plants deficient in G alpha, G beta, and two out of the three G gamma subunits, in Arabidopsis. WT plants are Col-0 and the quadruple mutant consists ofgpa1-4, agb1-2, agg1-1, and agg2-1 mutants.
Project description:Comparison of wild type barley plants versus plants over-expressing ODDSOC2; a vernalization responsive MADS box gene ****[PLEXdb(http://www.plexdb.org) has submitted this series at GEO on behalf of the original contributor, Aaron Greenup. The equivalent experiment is BB93 at PLEXdb.]
Project description:we investigated the transcriptome of barley albina and xantha mutants and the corresponding wild type to assess the effect of the chloroplast on expression of cold-regulated genes Keywords: stress response
Project description:To investigate the effect of the interaction between the AtChz1A/B, H2A.Z and ARP6, we analysed differentially expressed genes compared to the mutant and wild-type by RNA-seq. We then performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of 6 different plants including mutants and wild-type.