Project description:Two types of small (18-24 nt) non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) have been found to exist widely in higher plants. OsDCL3b has just been reported to process the 24-nt phased small RNAs in rice, which are preferentially expressed in panicle. In this study, we find that down-regulated expression of OsDCL3b leads to lower pollen sterility and seed setting rate, which results in decreased grain yield per plant in rice. Next, small RNA and mRNA sequencing were performed to study the decrease of pollen fertility and seed setting rate. 942 differentially expressed genes were identified, and some of them have already been known to be involved in rice panicle development. Our results indicate that there is a close correlation between small RNA and rice yield.
Project description:To gain mechanistic insights on RFL functions in rice architecture, we have employed global expression profilling to identify the genes regulated by RFL. Transgenic rice panicle RNAs down-regulated for RFL were compared with the wild type panicle RNA of similar developmental stage. Genes downregulated in transgenic lines will be those which expression requires functional RFL whereas upregulated genes will need RFL for their repression. Keywords: Whole genome analysis for genes whose expression is regulated by RFL
Project description:To investigate how OsGATA6 regulates heading date, grain number per panicle, and grain phenotypes, we collected panicle primordia of ZH11 and OsGATA6-AM lines at the In2 and In3 stages. We analyzed gene expression using a rice expression profiling chip. Compared with ZH11, OsGATA6-AM lines had 818 up-regulated genes and 284 down-regulated genes
Project description:To gain mechanistic insights on OsMADS2 functions in rice spikelet development, we have employed global expression profilling to identify the genes regulated by OsMADS2. Transgenic rice panicle RNAs were compared with the wild type panicle RNA of similar developmental stage. Genes downregulated in transgenic lines will be those which expression requires functional OsMADS2 whereas upregulated genes will need OsMADS2 for their repression. Keywords: Comparative expression profile analysis
Project description:Phosphate starvation/sufficient rice seedling, root or shoot Pi-starvation or Pi-sufficient stresses responsible rice genes, including previously unannotated genes were identified by Illumina mRNA-seq technology. 53 million reads from Pi-starvation or Pi-sufficient root or shoot tissues were uniquely mapped to the rice genome, and these included 40574 RAP3 transcripts in root and 39748 RAP3 transcripts in shoot. We compared our mRNA-seq expression data with that from Rice 44K oligomicroarray, and about 95.5% (root) and 95.4% (shoot) transcripts supported by the array were confirmed expression both by the array and by mRNA-seq, Moreover, 11888 (root) and 11098 (shoot) RAP genes which were not supported by array, were evidenced expression with mRNA-seq. Furthermore, we discovered 8590 (root) and 8193 (shoot) previously unannotated transcripts upon Pi-starvation and/or Pi-sufficient.
Project description:To gain mechanistic insights on RFL functions in rice architecture, we have employed global expression profilling to identify the genes regulated by RFL. Transgenic rice panicle RNAs down-regulated for RFL were compared with the wild type panicle RNA of similar developmental stage. Genes downregulated in transgenic lines will be those which expression requires functional RFL whereas upregulated genes will need RFL for their repression. Experiment Overall Design: Two independent biological RNA pools of dsRNAiRFL and RFL antisense transgenic panicles were compared with two independent wild type RNA pool in two different hybridizations. Two hybridizations were performed with reciprocally dye-labeled wild type RNA and respective mutant RNA.
Project description:At the transition from vegetative to reproductive growth in rice, a developmental program change occurs, resulting in panicle (rice inflorescence) formation. The initial event of the transition is the change of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) to an inflorescence meristem (IM), accompanied by a rapid increase in the meristem size. Suppression of leaf growth also occurs, resulting in the formation of bracts. The IM generates branch meristems (BMs), indeterminate meristems that reiteratively generate next-order meristems. All meristems eventually acquire a determinate spikelet meristem identity and terminate after producing a floret. ABERRANT PANICLE ORGANIZATION2 (APO2) is the rice ortholog of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) LEAFY (LFY), a plant-specific transcription factor. APO2 is a positive regulator of panicle branch formation. Here, we show that APO2 is also required to increase the meristem size of the IM and suppress bract outgrowth. We identified genes directly and indirectly regulated by APO2 and identified APO2-binding sites by ChIP-seq analysis. These analyses showed that APO2 directly controls known regulators of panicle development, including SQUAMOSA PROMOTER BINDING PROTEIN LIKE14 and NECK LEAF1. Furthermore, we revealed that a set of genes act as downstream regulators of APO2 in controlling meristem cell proliferation at the reproductive transition, bract suppression, and panicle branch formation. Our findings indicate that APO2 acts as a master regulator of rice panicle development by regulating multiple steps in the reproductive transition through directly controlling a set of genes.