Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings treated with auxin (indole-3-acetic acid), highlighting to the physiological function of auxin by observing early response of gene expressions in Arabidopsis seedlings.
Project description:5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is the common precursor of all biological synthezised tetrapyrroles. Inhibition of ALA synthesis results in decreased amounts of chlorophylls, heme, siroheme and phytochrome. It was previously shown that 4 out of 5 Arabidopsis mutants uncoupling nuclear gene expression from the physiological state of the chloroplast are affected in plant tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. It is common to all four mutants to show a reduced ALA formation. We investigate the impact of reduced plastidic ALA synthesis on nuclear gene expression by inhibition of ALA formation using gabaculin and compare these effects with the gun4-1 mutant. Formation of 5-aminolevulinic acid was inhibited in Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 seedlings by application of 10 µM gabaculin. Additionally the Arabidopsis gun4-1 mutant was investigated. Seedlings were etiolated for 3 days on MS medium in absence or presence of gabaculin and subsequently deetiolated for 6 hours. Total RNA was extracted and used for microarray hybridisation.
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana is a well-established model system for the analysis of the basic physiological and metabolic pathways of plants. The presented model is a new semi-quantitative mathematical model of the metabolism of Arabidopsis thaliana. The Petri net formalism was used to express the complex reaction system in a mathematically unique manner. To verify the model for correctness and consistency concepts of network decomposition and network reduction such as transition invariants, common transition pairs, and invariant transition pairs were applied. Based on recent knowledge from literature, including the Calvin cycle, glycolysis and citric acid cycle, glyoxylate cycle, urea cycle, sucrose synthesis, and the starch metabolism, the core metabolism of Arabidopsis thaliana was formulated. Each reaction (transition) is experimentally proven. The complete Petri net model consists of 134 metabolites, represented by places, and 243 reactions, represented by transitions. Places and transitions are connected via 572 edges.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings treated with cis-cinnamic acid derivatives constructed by Nishikawa et al. (2013) Phytochemistry (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2013.08.013), evaluating the candidate of herbicide chemicals by observing early response of gene expressions in Arabidopsis seedlings.
Project description:This study evaluates the transcriptome of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings (Col-0 ecotype) treated with methyl jasmonate (MeJA) or with the salicylic acid analog benzothiadiazole (BTH).
