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Profiling gene expression during root induction in juvenile and mature cuttings of Eucalyptus grandis revealed developmental and auxin dependent regulation of the microtubule system

ABSTRACT: Rooting capability is one of the economically traits lost during the juvenile to mature phase change in woody plants. A comprehensive microarray analysis was performed to compare the profiles of gene expression in juvenile and mature cuttings from E. grandis, either auxin treated or untreated on days, 0, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 post excision. At the end of the experiment, root primordia were observed only in auxin treated juvenile cuttings. Clustering the expression profiles revealed that the time after excision contributed to expression differences more than the age or auxin. Maximum differences contributed by the age and auxin occurred on day 6 which correlated with the kinetics of root primordia formation. These included genes related to the microtubules (MTs) system. Therefore, expression of 42 transcripts annotated as tubulin or MTs associated proteins (MAPs) was validated in the same RNA samples. The results suggest developmental and auxin regulation of MTs. To determine the relevance to adventitious root (AR) formation, subtle perturbations to MTs were performed with trifluralin during induction. While juvenile cuttings were not affected, improved rooting was obtained in mature cuttings. Taken together it suggests that specific MTs remodeling is required for AR formation in E. grandis.

ORGANISM(S): Eucalyptus grandis

PROVIDER: GSE57375 | GEO | 2015/05/01

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA246363

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Rooting capability is one of the economically traits lost during the juvenile to mature phase change in woody plants. A comprehensive microarray analysis was performed to compare the profiles of gene expression in juvenile and mature cuttings from E. grandis, either auxin treated or untreated on days, 0, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 post excision. At the end of the experiment, root primordia were observed only in auxin treated juvenile cuttings. Clustering the expression profiles revealed that the time after excision contributed to expression differences more than the age or auxin. Maximum differences contributed by the age and auxin occurred on day 6 which correlated with the kinetics of root primordia formation. These included genes related to the microtubules (MTs) system. Therefore, expression of 42 transcripts annotated as tubulin or MTs associated proteins (MAPs) was validated in the same RNA samples. The results suggest developmental and auxin regulation of MTs. To determine the relevance to adventitious root (AR) formation, subtle perturbations to MTs were performed with trifluralin during induction. While juvenile cuttings were not affected, improved rooting was obtained in mature cuttings. Taken together it suggests that specific MTs remodeling is required for AR formation in E. grandis. mRNA samlpes from mature and juvenile Eucalyptus sections immediately after cutting served as contorls. The rest of the samples were mature and juvenile sections, treated of not treated with Auxin, 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 days after the prunning. At each time point, a loop design was performed consisting of a juvenile untreated vs. mature untreated array, a matrue untreated vs. mature auxin treated array, a matrue auxin treated vs. juvenile auxin treated array, and a juvenile auxin treated vs. juvenile untreated array. additional arrays connected between these loops, and between them and the time 0 controls. Most conditions had 3 replicates, but mature-untreated-day1 had 4 replicates, and three conditions had 2 replicates each: Juvenile-auxin-treated-day1, juvenile-untreated-day6, and mature-auxin-treated-day9.

Project description:The loss of rooting capability following the transition from the juvenile to the mature phase is a known phenomenon in woody plant development. Eucalyptus grandis was used here as a model system to study the differences in gene expression between juvenile and mature cuttings. RNA was prepared from the base of the two types of cuttings before root induction and hybridized to a DNA microarray of E. grandis. In juvenile cuttings, 363 transcripts were specifically upregulated, enriched in enzymes of oxidation/reduction processes. In contrast, in mature cuttings, 245 transcripts were specifically upregulated, enriched in transcription factors involved in the regulation of secondary metabolites. A gene encoding for nitrate reductase (NIA), an enzyme that is known to be involved in nitric oxide (NO) production, was among the genes that were upregulated in juvenile cuttings. Concomitantly, a transient burst of NO upon excision was higher in juvenile cuttings than in mature ones. Treatment with a NO donor improved rooting of both juvenile and mature cuttings. A single NIA gene was found in the newly released E. grandis genome sequence, the cDNA of which was isolated, overexpressed in Arabidopsis plants and shown to increase NO production. Therefore, higher levels of NIA in E. grandis juvenile cuttings might lead to their better ability to produce NO and form adventitious roots. The Arabidopsis transgenic plants did not exhibit significantly increased lateral or adventitious roots, suggesting that spatial and temporal rather than a constitutive increase in NO is favorable for root formation. E. grandis seedlings were grown from seeds to the age of 6-7 months. The seedlings were pruned either at 10-15 cm or at 150-200 cm above the ground. The newly developed shoots were used as cuttings. To induce rooting, auxin (6000 ppm of K-IBA), was applied by quick dipping (20 sec). Stem cuttings taken from low-pruned seedlings were found to be easy-to root, exhibiting 45% rooting after 14 days and 60% after 35 days. These cuttings were defined as juvenile (RNA from two biological replicates was extracted). In contrast, stem cuttings taken from high pruned seedlings, barely rooted (5%) after 35 days, and were defined as mature (RNA from two biological replicates was extracted). The two biological replicates was used to dye swap experimental design.

Project description:Adventitious root formation at the base of plant cuttings is an innate de novo organogenesis process that allows massive vegetative propagation of many economically and ecologically important species. The early molecular events following shoot excision are not well understood. Using whole-genome microarrays, we detected significant transcriptome remodeling during 48 hours following shoot removal in Populus softwood cuttings in the absence of exogenous auxin, with 27% and 36% of the gene models showing differential abundance between 0 and 6 hours, and 6 and 24 hours, respectively. During these two time intervals, gene networks involved in protein turnover, protein phosphorylation, molecular transport and translation were among the most significantly regulated. Transgenic lines expressing a constitutively active form of the Populus type-B response regulator PtRR13 (ÎDDKPtRR13) have a delayed rooting phenotype and cause misregulation of COV1, a negative regulator of vascularization; PDR9, an auxin efflux transporter; two AP2/ERF genes with sequence similarity to TINY1. Cytokinin action appeared to disrupt root development 24 hours after shoot excision, when root founder cells are hypothesized to be sensitive to the negative effects of cytokinin. Our results suggest that PtRR13 acts downstream of cytokinin to repress adventitious root formation in intact plants, and that reduced cytokinin signaling after shoot excision enables coordinated expression of ethylene, auxin and vascularization pathways leading to adventitious root development. Populus tremula x Populus alba INRA-clone No. 717-1-B4 plants expressing a constitutively active form of the Populus type-B response regulator PtRR13 (ÎDDKPtRR13) were generated via an Agrobacterium-mediated protocol developed by Han et al. (2000). Non-transgenic and ÎDDKPtRR13 line were grown to a height of 60 cm. A 14 cm tall apical cuttings were collected from the mother plants. Cuttings were placed in 25 cm2 pots Fafard mix #4 and placed on a mist bench with intermittent mist to prevent shoot desiccation. Samples were collected at the indicated time points and consisted of a 5 mm section measured up from the base of the cutting (one sample per cutting). Total RNA was extracted with the RNeasy mini kit (Qiagen USA) and DNase treated in-column with the RNase-Free DNase set (Qiagen USA). Double-stranded cDNA was synthesized using SuperScript Double Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit (Invitrogen USA, Carlsbad, CA) with oligo-dT primers following the manufacturerâs protocol except that the synthesis step was extended to 16 hours. Cy-3 labeling and hybridization steps were performed by NimbleGen using their standard procedures. A custom-designed microarray platform was used comprising single 60-mer probes designed against 55,793 annotated gene models from the sequenced genome of P. trichocarpa. Each 60-mer probe was chosen form a group of 6-7 non-overlapping probes designed against different parts of the gene model. The probe whose value was the most similar to the average of 6-7 experimental probes was assumed to be the most reliable for transcript level estimation. A total of 39 microarray chips were used in these experiments: 39 chips = 2 genotypes (NT and ÎDDK) x 4 time points (0, 6, 24 and 48 hours) x 5 biological replications, except for the 0 hour ÎDDK where 4 biological replications were used. Signal intensities were log2 transformed and quantile normalized (Sugiharto et al., 1992). Normalized signals were analyzed in SAS 9.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC) using a mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA) with genotype and genotype by time interactions as fixed effects, and biological replication as a random effect.

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Profiling gene expression during root induction in juvenile and mature cuttings of Eucalyptus grandis revealed developmental and auxin dependent regulation of the microtubule system

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