Project description:Transcriptional profiling of rice shootunder drought condition. Goal was to determine the effects of drought on changes in gene expression.
Project description:Comparative transcriptional profiling of two contrasting rice genotypes,IRAT109 (drought-resistant japonica cultivar) and ZS97 (drought-sensitive indica cultivar), under drought stress during the reproductive stage
Project description:The young panicles 2 cm length were used for expression analysis in well watered control and drought stressed treatment. The panicle samples from biological replicates of six rice varieties were obtained in three independent experiments. The expression profiles were generated using Affymetrix rice genome arrays.
Project description:Rice plants were exogenously sprayed with synthetic phenyl-urea cytokinin under drought stress. Leaf proteome was analyzed for the differential expression of proteins.
Project description:Transcription factors play a crucial regulatory role in plant drought stress responses. In this study, a novel drought stress related bZIP transcription factor, OsbZIP62, was identified in rice. This gene was selected from transcriptome analysis of several typical rice varieties with different drought tolerance. The expression of OsbZIP62 was obviously induced by drought, hydrogen peroxide, and abscisic acid (ABA) treatment. Overexpression of OsbZIP62-VP64 (OsbZIP62V) enhanced the drought tolerance and oxidative stress tolerance of transgenic rice, while the osbzip62 mutants showed the opposite phenotype. RNA-seq analysis showed that many stress-related genes (e.g. OsGL1, OsNAC10, and DSM2) were up-regulated in OsbZIP62V plants. OsbZIP62 could bind to the abscisic acid–responsive element (ABRE) and promoters of several putative target genes. Taken together, OsbZIP62 positively regulated rice drought tolerance through regulated the expression of genes associated with stress.
Project description:In this research, an array of 27,448 rice genes was used to elucidate gene expression in air-dried rice seedlings (lead and root) at various periods of treatment times. The analyses show that rice responds to drought stress mainly by down-regulating many biological processes including gene expression and regulation, protein phosphorylation, and cellular metabolism. Among strategies to actively adapt to drought, most significant are inducing protective molecules, which may be differentially regulated based on plant organs.
Project description:OsNAC6 is a stress responsive NAC transcription factor in rice known as a regulator for the transcriptional networks of the drought tolerance mechanisms. However, little is known about the associated molecular mechanisms for drought tolerance. Here, we identified OsNAC6-mediated root structural adaptation such as increased root number and root diameter that was sufficient to confer drought tolerance. Multiyear (5 years) drought field tests clearly demonstrated that OsNAC6 overexpression in roots produced higher grain yield under drought conditions. Genome-wide analyses revealed that OsNAC6 directly up-regulated 13 genes. Taken together, OsNAC6 is a valuable candidate for genetic engineering of drought-tolerant high-yielding crops.
Project description:We investigated the physiological and gene expression response of drought-tolerant (IR57311 and LC-93-4; subgroup indica) and drought-sensitive (Nipponbare and Taipai 309; subgroup japonica) rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars to 18 days of drought stress in climate chamber experiments. Rice plants were grown under water sufficient and water limiting conditions in three independent experiments in a controlled climate chamber with 12 h day length at 600 µE m-2 s-1; temperature was 26°C in the light and 22°C at night, with a relative humidity of 75% in the light and 70% at night. Leaf material for expression profiling analysis was harvested five hours after the beginning of the light period after 18 days of stress or control treatment. Normalization and statistical testing was performed using the R package limma (R 2.3.1, limma version 2.7.3; (Smyth, 2005)). The methods Robustspline for within array normalization and Quantile for between array normalization were applied. A linear model with the effects genotype, drought treatment, genotype x drought, dye was fitted to normalized data in limma that models the systemic variation in the data. Afterwards, for the comparisons of interest, moderated t-statistics that use an empirical Bayes method were calculated. Differentially expressed genes were identified using the decideTests function (method global, Benjamini & Hochberg fdr corrected p-value <0.05 in limma) Keywords: stress reponse
Project description:Rice is highly sensitive to drought, and the effect of drought may vary with the different genotypes and development stages. Genome-wide gene expression profiling was used as the initial point to dissect molecular genetic mechanism of this complex trait and provide valuable information for the improvement of drought tolerance in rice. Affymetrix rice genome array containing 48,564 japonica and 1,260 indica sequences was used to analyze the gene expression pattern of rice exposed to drought stress. The transcriptome from leaf, root, and young panicle at three developmental stages was comparatively analyzed combined with bioinformatics exploring drought stress related cis-elements.
Project description:Jasmonates (JA) and abscisic acid (ABA) are phytohormones known to play important roles in plant response and adaptation to various abiotic stresses including salinity, drought, wounding, and cold. JAZ (JASMONATE ZIM-domain) proteins have been reported to play negative roles in JA signaling. However, direct evidence is still lacking that JAZ proteins regulate drought resistance. In this study, OsJAZ1 was investigated for its role in drought resistance in rice. Expression of OsJAZ1 was strongly responsive to JA treatment, and it was slightly responsive to ABA, salicylic acid, and abiotic stresses including drought, salinity, and cold. The OsJAZ1-overexpression rice plants were more sensitive to drought stress treatment than the wild-type rice Zhonghua 11 (ZH11) at both the seedling and reproductive stages, while the jaz1 T-DNA insertion mutant plants showed increased drought tolerance compared to the wild-type plants. The OsJAZ1-overexpression plants were hyposensitive to MeJA and ABA, whereas the jaz1 mutant plants were hypersensitive to MeJA and ABA. In addition, there were significant differences in shoot and root length between the OsJAZ1 transgenic and wild-type plants under the MeJA and ABA treatments. A subcellular localization assay indicated that OsJAZ1 was localized in both the nucleus and cytoplasm. Transcriptome profiling analysis by RNA-seq revealed that the expression levels of many genes in the ABA and JA signaling pathways exhibited significant differences between the OsJAZ1-overexpression plants and wild-type ZH11 under drought stress treatment. Quantitative real-time PCR confirmed the expression profiles of some of the differentially expressed genes, including OsNCED4, OsLEA3, RAB21, OsbHLH006, OsbHLH148, OsDREB1A, OsDREB1B, SNAC1, and OsCCD1. These results together suggest that OsJAZ1 plays a role in regulating the drought resistance of rice partially via the ABA and JA pathways.