Project description:Six months old seed grown under well-watered greenhouse conditions were used in the current study. The seedlings of the two wild emmer wheat genotypes were vernalized on a moist germination paper (Hofman Manufacturing, Inc, Jefferson, OR, USA) for three weeks in the dark at 4oC, followed by three days acclimation at 24oC. Seedlings were then transplanted into 5L pots containing a mixture of pure quartz sand and peat (4:1 v/v), supplemented with a slow release fertilizer (2 g/L, Osmocote® Standard 14-14-14, Scotts-Sierra Horticulture, Marysville, OH, USA) and by a weekly application of 100 ml/pot of 0.5X Murashigi and Skoog growth solution (Sigma Chemical Co., St Louis, MO, USA). Pots were placed in a screen-house under natural winter conditions (December to February; 5-18°C) in Haifa, Israel (Mt. Carmel; 35o01′ E, 32o45′ N; 480 m above sea level) for 10 weeks and irrigated daily by a drip irrigation system. Three weeks prior to application of terminal drought stress, the pots were transferred to a controlled environment greenhouse (22/18 oC; 12 h day/12 h night) in order to prevent rainfall during the drought experiment. Five pots per genotype served as biological replicates, plants of three pots of each genotype/treatment were used for transcriptome study whereas two additional pots were used for quantitative PCR analysis (altogether five biological replicated of were used for quantitative real time PCR). Three individual plants were grown in each pot, one plant was used for measurements of leaf relative water content (RWC) (Barrs and Weatherley 1968), whereas the other two plants were used for sampling of flag leaf tissue for RNA extraction. Terminal drought stress (D) was applied at inflorescence emergence stage (Zadoks 50-60), (Zadoks et al. 1974), after emergence of 1-2 spikes in all biological replicates of both genotypes. The time from transplanting to inflorescence emergence stage was not significantly different between genotypes (70 days in the S genotype and 72 days in the R genotype). Drought stress application initiated after irrigation with excess amount of water in order to assure that all pots start the experiment at the same soil water capacity. Drought stress was imposed by withholding water for eight days until stress symptoms (i.e. leaf rolling and wilting symptoms) were visible in plants of both genotypes. Stress symptoms were more visible in the S genotype, however, leaf relative water content (RWC), measured after eight days of drought stress was low but was not significantly different between the two genotypes (49.68%±1.48 in the R genotype and 53.34%±1.83 in the S genotype). The well-watered control (C) plants were irrigated daily by ample amount of water. Flag leaf tissues of drought-stressed plants and well-watered control plants were harvested, immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at -80ºC for RNA extraction. ****[PLEXdb(http://www.plexdb.org) has submitted this series at GEO on behalf of the original contributor, Krugman Tamar. The equivalent experiment is TA33 at PLEXdb.]

Project description:Understanding the patterns and processes driving natural genetic variation in gene expression is of fundamental importance to biology. In this study, we examined genetic variation in gene transcription through expression QTL (eQTL) analysis in the Tsu-1 x Kas-1 recombinant inbred line (RIL) mapping population of Arabidopsis thaliana. To understand how natural variation in transcription responds to abiotic stress, we conducted eQTL in both well watered and soil drying conditions. Further, we evaluated whether elements of genome structure were associated with eQTL occurance and genes responding to treatment conditions. Overall, we identified thousands of genes that responded to soil moisture availability and hundreds of eQTLs. However, we identified very few interactions between eQTLs and environmental conditions, and both treatment conditions were enriched for similar gene ontology (GO) categories. We did find strong evidence for associations between genome structure and natural variation in transcription. In general, genes with eQTLs were positively associated with local recombination rates and levels of polymorphism while genes responding to the treatment were negatively correlated with these factors. Our study provides further insight into the origin and maintenance of natural variation in transcription and how that variation responds to environmental conditions. Expression analysis by hybridization to atSNPTILE array (Affymetrix). Seed of the 104 RILs from reciprocal crosses between A. thaliana (L.) Heynh. accessions Kas-1 (CS903) and Tsu-1 (CS1640) were sown on fritted clay (Profile Products LLC, Buffalo Grove, IL) in 2.5-inch pots. Plants were arranged in a randomized complete block design consisting of 4 blocks, and then the pots were refrigerated at 4Â°C in darkness for 6 d to cold-stratify the seeds prior to commencement of a 12 h photoperiod in Conviron ATC60 growth chambers (Controlled Environments, Winnipeg, MB), at 23Â°C and 40% humidity during the day and 20Â°C and 50% humidity during the dark period. Light intensity was approximately 330 Âµmol m-2 s-1. After four weeks of growth, half of the plants were given a drought treatment, while the others remained fully watered. The drought treatment was randomly assigned to 2 of the 4 blocks and consisted of a slow decrease in soil moisture content over the course of one week. Each day, all pots assigned to the drought treatment were weighed, and water was added to individual pots to bring them to the target gravimetric water content. The target water content decreased each day, in the following series: 100%, 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, 45%, and 40% of field capacity. At the end of the treatment, leaf tissue was collected from both treatments for RNA extraction.

Project description:Six months old seed grown under well-watered greenhouse conditions were used in the current study. The seedlings of the two wild emmer wheat genotypes were vernalized on a moist germination paper (Hofman Manufacturing, Inc, Jefferson, OR, USA) for three weeks in the dark at 4oC, followed by three days acclimation at 24oC. Seedlings were then transplanted into 5L pots containing a mixture of pure quartz sand and peat (4:1 v/v), supplemented with a slow release fertilizer (2 g/L, Osmocote® Standard 14-14-14, Scotts-Sierra Horticulture, Marysville, OH, USA) and by a weekly application of 100 ml/pot of 0.5X Murashigi and Skoog growth solution (Sigma Chemical Co., St Louis, MO, USA). Pots were placed in a screen-house under natural winter conditions (December to February; 5-18°C) in Haifa, Israel (Mt. Carmel; 35o01′ E, 32o45′ N; 480 m above sea level) for 10 weeks and irrigated daily by a drip irrigation system. Three weeks prior to application of terminal drought stress, the pots were transferred to a controlled environment greenhouse (22/18 oC; 12 h day/12 h night) in order to prevent rainfall during the drought experiment. Five pots per genotype served as biological replicates, plants of three pots of each genotype/treatment were used for transcriptome study whereas two additional pots were used for quantitative PCR analysis (altogether five biological replicated of were used for quantitative real time PCR). Three individual plants were grown in each pot, one plant was used for measurements of leaf relative water content (RWC) (Barrs and Weatherley 1968), whereas the other two plants were used for sampling of flag leaf tissue for RNA extraction. Terminal drought stress (D) was applied at inflorescence emergence stage (Zadoks 50-60), (Zadoks et al. 1974), after emergence of 1-2 spikes in all biological replicates of both genotypes. The time from transplanting to inflorescence emergence stage was not significantly different between genotypes (70 days in the S genotype and 72 days in the R genotype). Drought stress application initiated after irrigation with excess amount of water in order to assure that all pots start the experiment at the same soil water capacity. Drought stress was imposed by withholding water for eight days until stress symptoms (i.e. leaf rolling and wilting symptoms) were visible in plants of both genotypes. Stress symptoms were more visible in the S genotype, however, leaf relative water content (RWC), measured after eight days of drought stress was low but was not significantly different between the two genotypes (49.68%±1.48 in the R genotype and 53.34%±1.83 in the S genotype). The well-watered control (C) plants were irrigated daily by ample amount of water. Flag leaf tissues of drought-stressed plants and well-watered control plants were harvested, immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen, and stored at -80ºC for RNA extraction. ****[PLEXdb(http://www.plexdb.org) has submitted this series at GEO on behalf of the original contributor, Krugman Tamar. The equivalent experiment is TA33 at PLEXdb.] genotype: Drought resistant (R) Y12-3 - treated or untreated: Well-watered(3-replications); genotype: Drought resistant (R) Y12-3 - treated or untreated: terminal drought(3-replications); genotype: Drought susceptible (S) A24-39 - treated or untreated: Well-watered(3-replications); genotype: Drought susceptible (S) A24-39 - treated or untreated: terminal drought(3-replications)

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