Project description:Little progress has been made in studying the toxicity of realistic 'non-pristine' forms of nanoparticles that presents in real soil environment. It is presently unkown whether the transformed nanoparticles in realistic environment exerts an adverse effect to rhizobium-legume symbiosis on molecular level. We used microarray to investigate the toxicogenomic responses of the model legume Medicago truncatula following 30 days exposure to three different types of biosolids (control biosolids (control BS), a mixture of Ag, ZnO and TiO2 manufactured nanomaterials added biosolids (Nano BS) and a corresponding bulk metals added biosolids (Bulk BS) ) amended soil that were aged for 6 months prior to exposure in pot experiment. Our Genechip® Medicago Genome Array is designed specially to monitor gene expression in Medicago truncatula, Medicago sativa, and the symbiotic organism Sinorhizobium meliloti. For our study, RNA were extracted from shoots and roots of Medicago truncatula that exposure to control, Bulk and Nano BS treatments for 30 days, and used for all hybridization on Affymetrix microarray. The objective of our study is to investigate the molecular mechanisms of toxicity of Nano BS in comparison with their counterpart Bulk BS treatment, using a commercial Medicago truncatula microarrays.
Project description:Little progress has been made in studying the toxicity of realistic 'non-pristine' forms of nanoparticles that presents in real soil environment. It is presently unkown whether the transformed nanoparticles in realistic environment exerts an adverse effect to rhizobium-legume symbiosis on molecular level. We used microarray to investigate the toxicogenomic responses of the model legume Medicago truncatula following 30 days exposure to three different types of biosolids (control biosolids (control BS), a mixture of Ag, ZnO and TiO2 manufactured nanomaterials added biosolids (Nano BS) and a corresponding bulk metals added biosolids (Bulk BS) ) amended soil that were aged for 6 months prior to exposure in pot experiment.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at variable light and temperature conditions under greenhouse environment (period March-June). Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at variable light and temperature conditions under greenhouse environment (period March-June). Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at controlled temperature of 21-19°C, 16h light. Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation.
Project description:Cytosine methylation is a base modification that is often used by genomes to store information that is stably inherited through mitotic cell divisions. Most cytosine DNA methylation is stable throughout different cell types or by exposure to different environmental conditions in plant genomes. Here, we profile the epigenomes of ~100 Medicago truncatula lines to explore the extent of natural epigenomic variation. We also use these data to determine the extent to which DNA methylation variants are linked to genetic variations.
Project description:12plex_medicago_2013-08 - r108 permissive medium versus non permissive medium. - Two experiments to compare the transcriptomic response of medicago plants: Agar medium versus Phytagel medium (exp1) and rhizobium WT versus BacA (exp2). - Medicago truncatula R108 seedlings were inoculated with S. medicae WSM419 and were cultivated during three days on buffered nidulation medium solidified with Phytagel or Agar.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at controlled temperature of 14/11°C, 16h light/dark. Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at controlled temperature of 26/24°C 16 h light/dark. Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation.
Project description:Medicago truncatula endogenous small RNAs The dataset contains Medicago truncatula Gaertn. cv. Jemalong endogenous small RNA sequences in the range 18-28 nucleotides. High-throughput Solexa/Illumina sequencing was carried out at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK. Please see www.illumina.com for details of the technology. Small RNA sequences were mapped to Medicago truncatula genome release 2.0 (http://www.medicago.org/genome/), the number of matches to the unfinished genome, if any, is recorded in the Series supplementary file GSE13761_sequence_annotations.txt.gz.