Transcription profiling of canola hypercotyls and the outer inegument of the seed coat
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ABSTRACT: The transcriptome of outer integument of canola seed coat was compared to seven day old canola hypocotyls using the Brassica 90kCombimatrix microarray
Project description:The present study reports the genetic and biochemical characterization of a dominant glossy mutant allele (BnaA. GL) in B. napus that results in a glossy phenotype. Results from transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy revealed the GL mutant exhibits reduced deposition of the cuticle layer, which was confirmed by a cuticular wax analysis. The wax compositional analysis revealed an increase in aldehydes but a severe decrease in alkanes, ketones and secondary alcohols. Genetic mapping narrowed the BnaA. GL gene to the end of A9 chromosome, where a gene homologous to ECERIFERUM1 (CER1) in Arabidopsis locates.<br><br>Then, we conducted a microarray analysis to find the differentially expressed genes between normal phenotype and glossy plants. Two comparisons were performed: wild type parent VS. the GL parent, and the bulked normal phenotype DH lines VS. the bulked glossy DH lines. The DH lines are generated from F1 plants of two parents, and RNA samples from three DH lines were combined to make a bulked sample for each phenotype. <br><br>Although no discernible mutation was apparent in the B. napus gene, this cDNA microarray chip assay revealed coordinated down regulation of genes encoding enzymes of the cuticular wax biosynthetic in the glossy mutant with BnCER1 being one of the most severely suppressed genes.
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Project description:Male Wistar rats (6 weeks, 250g), (Charles River, Sulzfeld, Germany) were equipped with micro osmotic pumps model 2001 from Alzet (Cupertino, CA) containing 400mM PETN dissolved in DMSO or the solvent and infusion was maintained for four days at 1?l/h (10.5?g/kg/min). For direct comparison, rats were also infused with 450mM NTG (6.6?g/kg/min in ethanol or the solvent as a control). <br>After 4d rats were sacrificed by exsanguinations under Isofluran anesthesia (5% inhalant in room air), the heart was rapidly excised, placed in ice-cold Krebs-HEPES-solution (composition in g/l: 5.78 NaCl, 0.35 KCl, 0.37 CaCl2, 0.30 MgSO4, 2.1 NaHCO3, 0.14 K2HPO4, 5.21 HEPES and 2.0 D-glucose) and dissected.<br>Total RNA was isolated from the hearts. Direct labeled cDNA was synthezised and hybridized to Rat OpArray Microarray (total genom expression profiling).
Project description:White clover mosaic virus (WCMV) is a major pathogen of white clover (Trifolium repens L.), with significant effects on yield and persistence. Due to the absence of natural sources of WCMV resistance a transgenic strategy has been employed to produce plants constitutively expressing WCMV replicase gene derivatives, designed to inhibit the propagation of WCMV through an RNA silencing mechanism. A 12,000 feature oligonucleotide microarray has been used to identify global changes in host plant, in addition to virus genome-encoded gene expression associated with WCMV infection in non-transgenic and transgenic WCMV-resistant white clover. Pairwise comparison between the transcriptome of mock-inoculated non-transgenic and WCMV-inoculated transgenic plants provides clear evidence for substantial equivalence between these two genotype/treatments, and demonstrate the efficacy of the transgenic strategy. WCMV- inoculated non-transgenic plants exhibit elevated abundance of many virus-encoded, and host immune response-specific transcripts compared to the transgenic resistant plants or mock-inoculated non-transgenic plants. By contrast, relative to inoculated sensitive plants, the majority of significantly up-regulated genes in mock-inoculated non-transgenic plants or WCMV-inoculated transgenic plants are markers of healthy cellular function. These results, and the occurrence of levels of WCMV-encoded transcripts in inoculated transgenic plants equivalent to those in virus-free plants, confirm the validity of the transgenic RNA silencing approach.<br>