Project description:The drought stress is one of key adverse environmental factors limiting plant growth and development, even threating global crop productivity in many arid and semi-arid regions. Drought stress usually causes huge economic losses for tobacco industries. Understanding how plants respond and adapt to the drought stress helps generate engineered plants with enhanced drought resistance. In this study, integrative analyses of multiple time point-related transcriptome and metabolome generated from K326 and its derived mutant 28 (M28) with contrasting drought tolerance. We found that dramatic changes of gene expression profiles between M28 and K326 before and after drought treatment.
Project description:Transciptomic changes in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv. Samsun) following exposure to microbial volatile organic compounds (MVOCs) emitted by Cladosporium sphaerospermum isolate TC09 (NRRL 67603) were investigated. Germinated seedling plants were cultured in Magenta GA7 vessels containing Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 30 g/L sucrose with and without fungal cultures that were included in the vessel but placed in a separated container. Ten days after the onset of MVOC exposure, tissue samples including the apical meristem and terminal leaves were collected and subject to RNA sequencing and transcriptome analysis using available tomato genome as reference. Our study revealed massive number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) associated with diverse biological processes including cell expansion and cell cycle, photosynthesis, phytohormone homeostasis and defense responses as a consequence of short-term exposure to potent MVOCs.
Project description:Purpose: we conducted a six time-point transcriptomic analysis using two tobacco cultivars with contrasting cold responses, Taiyan8 tobacco (TT, cold susceptibility) and Yanyan97 tobacco (YT, cold resistance). Methods: mRNA profiles of Tobacco seedlings from CK and cold-treated plants were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, usingIllumina Hiseq4500. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed at the transcript isoform level with methods: hisat2 (v2.0.5), SAMtools (v1.9). StringTie (v1.3.4d) and FeatureCounts (v1.6.4) Results: We found that both cultivars had common mechanisms to cope with cold stress, including common differentially expressed genes (DEGs), similar time-point-related differential expression profile of genes, and similar NtCBF gene co-expression modules, suggesting conservation of adaptation strategies for cold responses. Importantly, we found that YT experienced DEGs even under normal growth condition and had less DEGs in early stage of cold stress (0.5-2 h) when compared to TT, reflecting occurrence of genotype-dependent gene transcription. Moreover, a gene co-expression module (brown) with stress-related genes up-regulated in YT instead of TT at late stage (4-8 h), which might contribute to contrasting phenotypic changes during cold stress between TT and YT. Conclusions: our study provides valuable resources for transcriptomic studies of cold responses in plants. It also helps to identify key cold responsive genes for genetic manipulation for breeding of tobacco cultivars in the future.
Project description:Thermospermine-induced transcriptomic changes were explored in Populus tremula x P. tremuloides. Transgenic hybrid aspen plants expressing 35S::POPACAULIS5 were compared to wild-type hybrid aspen under the influence of PGRs and depleted from PGRs.