Project description:Iron (Fe) and copper (Cu) are essential metal micronutrients that are necessary for many redox reactions. The uptake of these metals is tightly regulated in plants. Some redox processes can alternatively use Fe-containing proteins or Cu-containing proteins, depending on nutritional status. Copper deficiency can rescue a Cucumis melo Fe uptake deficient mutant, and Fe deficiency can result in increased accumulation of Cu. However, the system responsible for Fe-deficiency-regulated Cu-uptake is unknown. To understand the genes and gene networks associated with Fe-deficiency regulated Cu uptake and Fe-Cu cross-talk, we conducted transcriptomic profiling of roots and rosettes of spl7 (a Cu uptake deficient mutant in arabidopsis) and Col-0 (WT) grown under Fe, Cu and simultaneous Fe and Cu deficiency conditions.
Project description:Iron (Fe) is an essential plant micronutrient, and its deficiency limits plant growth and development on alkaline soils. Under Fe deficiency, plant responses include upregulation of genes involved in Fe uptake from the soil. However, little is known about shoot responses to Fe deficiency. Using microarrays to probe gene expression in Kas-1 and Tsu-1 ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana revealed conserved rosette gene expression responses to Fe deficiency. Fe regulated genes included known metal homeostasis-related genes, and a number of genes of unknown function.
Project description:au13-06_fit - Fe-FIT-Diff - FIT (FER-LIKE IRON DEFICIENCY-INDUCED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR) is a regulator of Fe deficiency responses in the root. FIT is a basic helix-loop-helix protein. Here, we investigated the transcriptome changes in response to Fe deficiency (- Fe) versus the control condition (+ Fe) in wild type, the fit-3 loss of function mutant and in FIT overexpression plants.
Project description:Several phytohormones and other small molecules have been demonstrated to be involved in iron (Fe) homeostasis. However, how salicylic acid (SA), an essential hormone in plant immunity and defense responses, participates in Fe-deficiency responses in plants is largely unknown. Here, we took advantage of a SA biosynthesis defect mutant phytoalexin deficient 4 (pad4: T-DNA Salk_089936) to explore the possible effects of endogenous SA on the morphological and physiological responses to Fe deprivation. Under a Fe-deficiency treatment, Col-0 showed more severe leaf chlorosis and root growth inhibition compared with the pad4 mutant. The soluble Fe concentrations were significant higher in pad4 than Col-0 under the Fe-deficiency treatment, suggesting that a mutation in the PAD4 gene may alleviate the Fe-deficiency-induced symptoms by regulating the soluble Fe concentrations. Furthermore, a SA signaling maker line (PR1promoter: GUS) was used to investigate how Fe deficiency affects endogenous SA biosynthesis and metabolism. The data showed that Fe deficiency significantly induced SA accumulation in Col-0, and the loss function of PAD4 blocked this process. The requirement of endogenous SA accumulation for Fe-deficiency responses was confirmed using a series of SA biosynthetic mutants and transgenic lines.
Project description:Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient whose uptake is tightly regulated to balance both deficiency and Fe excess induced oxidative stress. The non-essential heavy metal cadmium (Cd) both induces oxidative stress and an Fe deficiency like response. It is unclear how Cd induces this response, nor how it relates to Fe status sensing. Using next generation sequencing, H2O2 quantification in both wild type and the Fe over-accumulating mutant opt3-2, we explored how Cd interferes with Fe sensing. We found a large overlap of genes consistently responsive to Fe deficiency and Cd in both leaves and roots. Two subnetworks emerged dependent on the high Fe and H2O2 concentration in opt3-2, while opt3-2 chloroplasts showed reduced photosynthetic efficiency during Cd exposure, indicating that they are one source of H2O2. We describe the hierarchical regulation of Fe deficiency responses in the context of the opt3-2 mutant, and demonstrate that the opt3 dependent induction of Fe deficiency responses can be negated, or even reversed, by H2O2 dependent signaling, while the high Fe content of opt3-2 indicates Cd induced iron deficiency is not a function of reduced Fe uptake, but rather the putative leaf Fe sensor is Cd liable.
Project description:Fe deficiency stimulates a coordinated response involving reduction, transport and redistribution of Fe in the roots. The expression of genes regulated by Fe deficiency in the two contrasting Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes, Tsu-1 and Kas-1, shows that different ecotypes can respond in diverse ways, with different Fe regulated overrepresented categories. We use microarrays to analyze the Fe deficiency responses of contrasting Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes (Tsu-1 and Kas-1).
Project description:au10-14_fer - response of ein3eil1 mutants to fe deficiency - Response of ein3eil1 mutants to Fe deficiency - Wild type seedlings and ethylene insensitive ein3eil1 seedlings were germinated and grown in the presence of 50 µM Fe or absence of Fe (0 µM) on Hoagland medium agar plates until the age of 6 days. Under these growth conditions symptoms of Fe deficiency develop in the 0 Fe plants. Ethylene is known to promote Fe acquisition responses. Whole seedlings were harvested for transcriptome analysis, in a total of three biological replicates.
Project description:We performed small RNA-seq (sRNA-seq) study of Arabidopsis shoots under iron-sufficient (+Fe), iron deficient (-Fe) and iron resupply (Fe resupply) conditions to investigate and identify sRNAs whose expression is regulated by iron deficiency.
Project description:Tomato, a Strategy I model plant for Fe deficiency, is an important economical crop. The transcriptional responses induced by Fe deficiency in tomato roots were previously described (Zamboni et al., 2012). The changes in trascriptome caused by the supply of Fe to plants starved fro 1 week were described in relation to the different nature of chelating agents (Fe-WEHS, Fe-CITRATE and Fe-PS).
Project description:Iron (Fe) is an essential plant micronutrient, and its deficiency limits plant growth and development on alkaline soils. Under Fe deficiency, plant responses include upregulation of genes involved in Fe uptake from the soil. However, little is known about shoot responses to Fe deficiency. Using microarrays to probe gene expression in Kas-1 and Tsu-1 ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana revealed conserved rosette gene expression responses to Fe deficiency. Fe regulated genes included known metal homeostasis-related genes, and a number of genes of unknown function. Kas and Tsu Arabidopsis seedlings were grown on complete media for 24 d, and then put on complete or -Fe media and collected after 24 and 48 h.