Project description:Diurnal time-course transcriptional profiling of rice leaf in the field comparing a circadian clock related mutant, osgi, with the wild-type (WT).
Project description:The rice lesion mimic, spotted leaf 5 (spl5), created by γ-ray radiation, has spontaneous HR-like lesions on its leaves and shows enhanced resistance to rice blast and bacterial blight pathogens. Some genes were differentially expressed in this mutant compared with its WT control ZF802, and these genes were also associated with some important signaling pathways, such as defense response, oxidation-reduction process and stress response. We analyzed the transcriptional profiling of spl5 mutant and WT using the microarray, in order to reveal the signal pathway of SPL5 gene in regulation of disease resistance.
Project description:Diurnal time-course transcriptional profiling of rice leaf in the field comparing a circadian clock related mutant, osgi, with the wild-type (WT). Two sample experiments (WT vs. osgi) : 13 time-points (2h interval), 8 replicates (2leaves from individual plants x 4stages(each staggered by tranplanting dates with one week interval)): sampled on Aug. 12th 7:00-Aug.13th 7:00 (2008) at a paddy field in Tsukuba (Japan)
Project description:The rice lesion mimic, spotted leaf 5 (spl5), created by M-NM-3-ray radiation, has spontaneous HR-like lesions on its leaves and shows enhanced resistance to rice blast and bacterial blight pathogens. Some genes were differentially expressed in this mutant compared with its WT control ZF802, and these genes were also associated with some important signaling pathways, such as defense response, oxidation-reduction process and stress response. We analyzed the transcriptional profiling of spl5 mutant and WT using the microarray, in order to reveal the signal pathway of SPL5 gene in regulation of disease resistance. Rice leaves were selected at lesion stages of spl5 mutant for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. The lesions in rice leaves were belong to HR phenotype, which was one of the important reasons for rice disease resistance. In order to realize which genes were associated with the degree of lesions and mediated the disease resistance, we put the leaves of spl5 mutant into two categories, based on the degree of lesion formation: few lesions (FL), leaf area with 10-20% lesions and many lesions (ML), leaf area with 70-80% lesions.
Project description:We identified a key regulator of the rice leaf angle and plant architecture, OsWRKY36, from a rice oswrky mutant library. OsWRKY36 is highly expressed in the leaf lamina joint and promotes cell growth and expansion in adaxial parenchyma cells, leading to a greater leaf angle.
Project description:Canopy architecture in cereals plays an important role in determining yield. The width of leaves represents one key aspect of this canopy architecture. However, our understanding of leaf width control in cereals remains incomplete. Classical mutagenesis studies in barely identified multiple morphological mutants, including those with differing leaf widths. Of these, we characterized the broad leaf13 (blf13) mutant in detail. Mutant plants form wider leaves due to increased post-initiation growth and cell proliferation. The mutant phenotype perfectly co-segregated with a semi-dominant, missense mutation in the HvHNT1 gene which affected a highly conserved region of the encoded protein, orthologous to the rice NARROW LEAF1 (NAL1) protein. Causality of this mutation for the blf13 phenotype is further supported by correlative transcriptomic analyses and protein-protein interaction studies showing that the mutant HvNHT1 protein interacts more strongly with a known interactor than wild-type HvHNT1. The mutant HvHNT1 protein also showed stronger homodimerization compared to wild type HvHNT1homodimerization, with a dimer between mutant and wildtype HvHNT1intermediate. Thus, the blf13 mutation parallels known gain-of-function NAL1 alleles in rice that increase leaf width and grain yield, suggesting the blf13 mutation may have a similar agronomic potential in barley.
Project description:Rice leaves consist of three distinct regions along a proximal-distal axis, namely, the leaf blade, sheath, and blade-sheath boundary region. Each region has a unique morphology and function, however,but the genetic programs underlying the development of each region are poorly understood. To capture the entire picture of rice leaf development and to discover genes with unique functions in rice and grasses, it is crucial to explore genome-wide transcriptional profiles during the development of the three regions. In this study, we performed microarray analysis to profile the spatial and temporal patterns of gene expression in the rice leaf using dissected parts of leaves sampled in broad developmental stages.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of young leaves of rice (Oryza sativa) comparing control wild-type plants with transgenic plants transformed with a pBI-nptII-OsDDM1 gene. The latter makes the methylation level of the genomic DNA decreased. Goal was to determine the effects of decreased level of genomic DNA on global rice gene expression.
