Project description:To identify miRNAs involved in carpels fusion development in maize, four independent small RNA libraries and two degradome libraries from WT and IFC ovaries were constructed at the carpels fusion deficiency just being observed. A total of 162 known miRNAs distributed in 33 faimilies were identified, of which 20 known miRNAs were differentially expressed. In addition, 19 novel miRNAs were shown difference in expression levels between IFC and WT ovaries. By degradome analysis, totals of 113 and 78 target genes were predicted for known and novel miRNAs, respectively. 24 (60%) target genes of the differentially expressed known miRNAs coded for transcription factors, among which target genes encoding auxin response factors (ARF), TB1-CYC-PCFs (TCP), APETALA2 (AP2), growth regulating factor (GRF), MYB, NAC and NF-YA were classified as Class I. These target genes showed opposite expression patterns with their corresponding miRNAs according to quantitative real-time PCR results. The results suggested that the incomplete carpels fusion may partly due to the differential expression of these miRNAs and their target genes
Project description:To identity the targets of miRNAs, we bundled 12 samples from different developing satages into four mixture samples. These samples were used to cosntruct degradome libraries and preform degradome sequencing on Illumina Hi-seq 2000 analyzer. More than 44.98 millions clean reads were obtained and 33.52 million reads were mapped to the soybean cDNA. The mapped reads were used to identity miRNA targets by CleaveLand4 pipeline. 4 degradome mixed samples, no replicates, but every degradome data consists of two parts data. Please note that every degradome sample has two processed and two raw data files. To have enough data, additional sequencing was performed from each sample library. And each sample raw data was processed separately (tissue_name*degradome.txt) and also combined (all_degradome*.txt).
Project description:To identity the targets of miRNAs, we bundled 12 samples from different developing satages into four mixture samples. These samples were used to cosntruct degradome libraries and preform degradome sequencing on Illumina Hi-seq 2000 analyzer. More than 44.98 millions clean reads were obtained and 33.52 million reads were mapped to the soybean cDNA. The mapped reads were used to identity miRNA targets by CleaveLand4 pipeline.
Project description:We aimed to identify targets of miRNAs during wheat grain development by using degradome sequencing approach. Two degradome libraries were constructed from wheat grains. Verification of miRNA targets from two degradome libraries in developing wheat grains.
Project description:Background: MiRNAs and phasiRNAs are negative regulators of gene expression. These small RNAs have been extensively studied in plant model species but only 10 mature microRNAs are present in miRBase version 21 and no phasiRNAs have been identified for the legume model Phaseolus vulgaris. Thanks to the recent availability of the first version of the common bean genome, degradome data and small RNA libraries, we are able to present here a catalog of the microRNAs and phasiRNAs of this organism and, particularly, new protagonists of the symbiotic nodulation events. Results: We identified a set of 185 mature miRNAs, including 121 previously unpublished sequences, encoded by 307 precursors and distributed in 98 families. Degradome data allowed us to identify a total of 181 targets for these miRNAs. We reveal two regulatory networks involving conserved miRNAs, known to play crucial roles in the well-establishment of nodules, and novel miRNAs specific of the common bean suggesting a specific action of these sequences. In parallel, we identified 125 loci that potentially produce phased small RNAs and 47 of them present all the characteristics to be triggered by a total of 31 miRNAs, including 14 new miRNAs identified in this study. Conclusions: We provide here a set of new small RNAs, which contribute to the broader scene of the sRNAome of Phaseolus vulgaris. Thanks to the identification of the miRNA targets from degradome analysis and the construction of regulatory networks between the mature microRNAs, we draw up here the probable functional regulation associated with the sRNAome and particularly in N2-fixing symbiotic nodules. Degradome sequencing from Phaseolus vulgaris seedling
Project description:Small peptides (sPeptides), a class of biological molecules of less than 100 amio acids encoded by small open reading frames (sORFs), play important roles in multiple biological process. Here, we conducted a comprehensive study using mRNA-seq, Ribo-seq, and Mass Spectrometry (MS) on six tissues (each with at least two replicates) of maize, set up a bioinformatic pipeline, and performed a genome-wide scan of sORFs and sPeptides in maize. Our study sets up a guildline for the genome-wide scan of sORFs and sPeptides in plants by integrating Ribo-seq, and MS data, provides a more comprehensive resource of functional sPeptides in maize, and sheds light on the complex biological system of plants in a new perspective.
Project description:Maize LOB30 (Zm00001d036435) is a transcription factor and is specifically expressed in anthers. Our previous RNA-seq data showed that expression of some genes were upregualted in maize lob30 mutant maize anthers. To confirm these genes are the downstrem target genes, we generated proLOB30: GFP-LOB30 transgenic maize lines, collected stage 9 to stage10 anther materials and performed ChIP-seq using the GFP antibody.