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Transcriptome analysis of mvp mutant reveals important changes in global gene expression and a role of methyl-jasmonate in vernalization and flowering in wheat

ABSTRACT: The maintained vegetative phase (mvp) mutant has a non-flowering phenotype caused by deletions including, but not limited to, the genes CYS, PHYC and VRN1. However the impact of these deletions on flowering genes and global gene expression is still unknown. In this study, we showed that these deletions caused the up-regulation of several pathogenesis related (PR) and jasmonate responsive genes using microarray analysis. Our results raise the hypothesis that jasmonates may be involved in flowering. To confirm this hypothesis, the methyl-jasmonate (MeJA) and jasmonic acid (JA) content in mvp and wild type plants was measured. The content of JA was comparable in all plants while the content of MeJA was higher in mvp plants. Our transcriptomic and chemical analyses of the mvp mutants plants reveal that the deletion of the major vernalization gene TaVRN1 induces the up-regulation of the major biotic stress related genes and the accumulation of MeJA. In addition, our results demonstrate an important role of MeJA during vernalization and flowering in wheat. A total of 3 biological replicates (R1, R2 and R3) for each condition (wild type (control) and mvp mutant (mutant) ) were used for microarray analyses. Each biological replicate sample was obtained by pooling three wild type plants (control) or five mvp plants (mutant) from different plants harvested randomly. The different biological samples of einkorn spring wheat whole aerial part were ground in dry ice to fine powder and total RNA was extracted with trizol (Invitrogen, Burlington, ON, CA). Total RNA was cleaned using RNeasy plant mini kit (Qiagen) and integrity was determined on agarose gel and on a bioanalyser (Agilent 2100). Synthesized cDNAs were transcribed to cRNAs with the 3M-bM-^@M-^YIVT labelling kit (Santa Clara, CA, USA) and hybridized to the Affymetrix wheat genome array (Santa Clara, Ca, USA) at the McGill University and GM-CM-)nome QuM-CM-)bec Innovation Centre (Montreal, Qc, CA). The experimental design consisted of three biological replicates for each of the two conditions, 1: The einkorn wheat (Triticum monococcum L. 2n = 2x = 14, AmAm) wild type plants (control) and 2: the mvp plants (mutant). Thus, a total of 3 biological samples from each of the two conditions described above were used for hybridizations.

ORGANISM(S): Triticum monococcum

SUBMITTER: Fathey Sarhan

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-50882 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Transcriptome analysis of an mvp mutant reveals important changes in global gene expression and a role for methyl jasmonate in vernalization and flowering in wheat.

Diallo Amadou Oury AO Agharbaoui Zahra Z Badawi Mohamed A MA Ali-Benali Mohamed Ali MA Moheb Amira A Houde Mario M Sarhan Fathey F

Journal of experimental botany 20140328 9

The einkorn wheat mutant mvp-1 (maintained vegetative phase 1) has a non-flowering phenotype caused by deletions including, but not limited to, the genes CYS, PHYC, and VRN1. However, the impact of these deletions on global gene expression is still unknown. Transcriptome analysis showed that these deletions caused the upregulation of several pathogenesis-related (PR) and jasmonate-responsive genes. These results suggest that jasmonates may be involved in flowering and vernalization in wheat. To ...[more]

PMID: 24683181

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Transcriptome analysis of mvp mutant reveals important changes in global gene expression and a role of methyl-jasmonate in vernalization and flowering in wheat

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