Project description:The goal of this project is to compare the primary metabolite profile in different tissue types of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Specifically, plants were grown hydroponically under the long-day (16hr light/day) condition at 21C. Tissue samples, including leaves, inflorescences, and roots were harvest 4 1/2 weeks post sowing. Untargeted primary metabolites profiling was carried out using GCTOF.
Project description:Brevicompanines are natural products isolated from the culture filtrate of the fungus Penicillium brevicompactum. They showed plant growth regulating properties in several species including lettuce, rice or Arabidopsis thaliana. We used microarrays to gather information about the reprogramming of gene transcription when Arabidopsis leaves were treated with Brevicompanine C (BrvC) that showed significant activity in plant growth assays.
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata are two closely related Brassicaceae species, which are used as models for plant comparative biology. They differ by lifestyle, predominant mating strategy, ecological niches and genome organization. To identify heat stress induced genes, we performed RNA-sequencing of rosette leaves from mock-treated, heat-stressed and heat-stressed-recoved plants of both species.
Project description:We sequenced the total RNA from a tissues mixed sample (inflorescences, rosette leaves, cauline leaves and stems) of Arabidopsis thaliana. After total RNA extraction, the same amount of tissue RNA were mixed. Ribosomal RNAs were deleted from the mixed tissue total RNAs using RiboMinus™ Plant Kit repeated three times. We also sequenced 9 poly(A)- RNAs from seedlings treated with different stress conditions at different times. The poly(A)- RNAs were collected by removing poly(A)+ RNAs four times . Then rRNAs were removed from poly(A)- RNAs three times.
