Project description:ced1 mutant has reduced expression of NCED3 in response to osmotic stress (polyethylene glycol) treatments compared to the wild type. Other ABA biosynthesis genes are also greatly reduced in ced1 under osmotic stress. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression under osmotic stress treatment and identified distinct classes of up/down-regulated genes in the stress pathway.
Project description:ced2 mutant has reduced expression of NCED3 in response to osmotic stress (PEG, polyethylene glycol) treatments compared to the wild type. Other ABA biosynthesis genes are also greatly reduced in ced2 under osmotic stress. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression under osmotic stress treatment and identified distinct classes of up/down-regulated genes in the stress pathway.
Project description:Multiple transcription factors (TFs) play essential roles in plants under abiotic stress, one of the most challenging conditions of plant survival. However, how these multiple TFs cooperate in abiotic stress responses still remains largely unknown. In this study, we provide evidence that a novel NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC2) transcription factor (ANAC096) cooperates with bZIP-type TFs [ABRE-binding factor/ABRE-binding protein (ABF/AREB)] in ensuring survival under dehydration and osmotic stress conditions. Intriguingly, ANAC096 directly interacted with ABF2 and ABF4, but not with ABF3, both in vitro and in vivo. ANAC096 and ABF2 synergistically activated RD29A transcription. The genome-wide gene expression analysis revealed that a major proportion of ABA-responsive genes are under the transcriptional regulation of ANAC096.An Arabidopsis mutant, anac096, was hyposensitive to exogenous abscisic acid (ABA), and showed impaired ABA-induced stomatal closure and increased water loss under dehydration stress conditions. Furthermore, the anac096 abf2 abf4 triple mutant was much more sensitive to dehydration and osmotic stresses than the anac096 single mutant or the abf2 abf4 double-mutant. Based on these results, we propose that ANAC096 is involved in a synergistic relationship with a subset of ABFs for the transcriptional activation of ABA-inducible genes in response to dehydration and osmotic stresses.
Project description:Multiple transcription factors (TFs) play essential roles in plants under abiotic stress, one of the most challenging conditions of plant survival. However, how these multiple TFs cooperate in abiotic stress responses still remains largely unknown. In this study, we provide evidence that a novel NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC2) transcription factor (ANAC096) cooperates with bZIP-type TFs [ABRE-binding factor/ABRE-binding protein (ABF/AREB)] in ensuring survival under dehydration and osmotic stress conditions. Intriguingly, ANAC096 directly interacted with ABF2 and ABF4, but not with ABF3, both in vitro and in vivo. ANAC096 and ABF2 synergistically activated RD29A transcription. The genome-wide gene expression analysis revealed that a major proportion of ABA-responsive genes are under the transcriptional regulation of ANAC096.An Arabidopsis mutant, anac096, was hyposensitive to exogenous abscisic acid (ABA), and showed impaired ABA-induced stomatal closure and increased water loss under dehydration stress conditions. Furthermore, the anac096 abf2 abf4 triple mutant was much more sensitive to dehydration and osmotic stresses than the anac096 single mutant or the abf2 abf4 double-mutant. Based on these results, we propose that ANAC096 is involved in a synergistic relationship with a subset of ABFs for the transcriptional activation of ABA-inducible genes in response to dehydration and osmotic stresses. pTA plants (12-day-old) cultured in liquid medium were treated with 30 uM Dex alone for 1 h (Control) or 30 uM Dex alone for 30 min followed by an additional treatment of 30 min with both 30 uM Dex and 2 uM ABA (ABA). For pTA-ANAC096 plants, 12-day-old seedlings were treated with 30 uM Dex for 1 h (ANAC096) or with 30 uM Dex only for 0.5 h followed by additional 0.5 h incubation with both 2 uM ABA and 30 uM Dex (ANAC096+ABA). Total RNAs were isolated from two biological replicates at each condition and used to measure gene expression level.
Project description:To explore the possible cause for the enhanced tolerance to osmotic stress exhibited by wrky54wrky70 double mutant, we have used Agilent Arabidopsis (V4) Gene Expression Microarray to characterize the effect of these mutations under the osmotic stress treatment. In addition to wild type and wrky54wrky70 double mutant, sid2-1 single and wrky54wrky70sid2-1 triple mutant were also included in the microarray experiment. When comparing to untreated control samples, 58 genes were identified as representatives to show the different expression level among different mutants under the 15% PEG6000 treatment for one day. Expression of six genes (RAB18, LTI78, KIN1,NCED3,P5CS1 and PRODH) from this gene list were quantified by qRT-PCR, confirming the suppressed induction in wrky54wrky70 double mutant under the osmotic stress. Osmotic stress induced gene expression in Col-WT, sid2-1 single, wrky54wrky70 double and wrky54wrky70sid2-1 triple mutants was measured after exposure to 15% PEG6000 treatment for one day. For each array, three labeled aRNA sample were hybridized and three biological replicates for each sample with dye swaps were made.