Project description:Identification of differentially expressed genes in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants in response to combined abiotic stress treatment through Microarray experiment.
Project description:Genetically engineering Arabidopsis thaliana to express Isoprene Synthase (ISPS) leads to changes in expression of genes assoiated with many growth regulator signaling pathways and signaling networks involved in abiotic and biotic stress responses.
Project description:We intend to provide a high resolution compendium of changes in gene expression of Arabidopsis root upon exposure to Fe starvation, an important abiotic stress.
Project description:N6-methyldeoxyadenosine (6mA) is a newly-discovered DNA modification that plays a role in regulating plant adaptation to abiotic stresses. However, the changes and molecular regulatory mechanisms of N6-methyldeoxyadenosine under cold stress in plants remain uncertain. Here, we found the global level of 6mA in both Arabidopsis and rice are raised after cold treatment. Genome-wide profiling of 6mA revealed that 6mA peaks are primarily distributed within gene body regions under both normal and low-temperature conditions. Additionally, genes that were up-methylated were enriched in various biological processes, while down-methylated genes did not exhibit any significant enrichment. Association analysis showed that 6mA was positively correlated with gene expression level and 6mA-containing genes displayed a significantly higher expression level than non-6mA-containing genes. Joint analysis of the 6mA methylome and transcriptome of Arabidopsis and rice revealed that the fluctuations in 6mA levels caused by exposure to cold did not correlate with the changes of transcript levels in response to low temperatures. Moreover, we found that 6mA modified orthologous genes exhibit high expression levels. However, upon cold treatment, only a small amount of differentially 6mA-methylated orthologous genes were shared between Arabidopsis and rice. In sum, this study profiled the changes of 6mA in response to cold temperature and has unlocked the potential of this DNA modification in regulating the expression of stress-related genes.
Project description:Environmental conditions contributing to abiotic stresses such as drought and salinity result in large annual economic losses around the world. As sessile organisms, plants cannot escape the environmental stresses they encounter, but instead must adapt to survive. Previous studies investigating osmotic and/or salt responses have largely focused on understanding short-term responses (0-1h) at the transcriptomic, proteomic and phosphoproteomic level; however, our understanding of intermediate to longer-term adaptation (24h - days) is relatively limited. In addition to protein abundance and phosphorylation changes, recent evidence suggests reversible protein acetylation may be important for abiotic stress responses. Therefore, to characterize the effects of osmotic and salt stress, we undertook a label-free proteomic and PTMomic analysis of Arabidopsis roots exposed to 300mM Mannitol and 150mM NaCl for 24 h. We quantitatively assessed protein abundance, phosphorylation and acetylation.
Project description:Plant responses to abiotic stresses are accompanied by massive changes in transcriptome composition. To provide a comprehensive view of stress-induced changes in the Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome, we have used whole-genome tiling arrays to analyze the effects of salt, osmotic, cold and heat stress as well as application of the hormone abscisic acid (ABA), an important mediator of stress responses.
