Project description:We report transcripts from tomato:tomato and pepper:pepper self-grafts, and tomato:pepper and pepper:tomato hetergrafts over 4 time points: 24 hours after grafting, 3 days after grafting, 5 day after grafting, and 2 weeks after grafting Examination of 4 graft combinations over 4 time points
Project description:To investigate graft conferred resistance against viral diseases a novel hetero-grafting system was developed using Nicotiana benthamiana scions grafted onto different tomato rootstocks. RNAseq analysis was used to identify mobile tomato mRNAs within N. benthamiana scions
Project description:The widespread use of plant grafting has enabled different plants to join and combine their best properties to improve stress tolerance, growth and yields. Grafting is commonly performed between closely related eudicots or gymnosperms where mechanisms permit tissue fusion yet limit success as plants become unrelated. To investigate these aspects, we developed a micrografting method using young conifer tree seedlings that enabled divergent conifer members to successfully graft. Conifer grafts showed rapid connection of phloem and xylem at the junction, while a genome-wide transcriptome analysis of the Picea abies (Norway spruce) healing junction revealed differential expression of thousands of genes including those related to auxin response and cell wall biogenesis. We compared these genes to those induced during Arabidopsis thaliana graft healing and found a common activation of cambium, cell division, phloem and xylem-related genes. A gene regulatory network analysis revealed that PHYTOCHROME A SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION 1 (PAT1) acted as a central hub during Picea grafting and was also induced during Arabidopsis grafting. Arabidopsis mutants lacking PATs failed to attach tissues or successfully graft, while complementing Arabidopsis PAT mutants with the Picea abies PAT1 homolog could rescue tissue attachment and enhance callus formation. Together, our data demonstrate a competency for young tissues to graft to distantly related species and identifies the PAT gene family as conserved regulators of graft healing and tissue regeneration in eudicots and gymnosperms.
Project description:The widespread use of plant grafting has enabled different plants to join and combine their best properties to improve stress tolerance, growth and yields. Grafting is commonly performed between closely related eudicots or gymnosperms where mechanisms permit tissue fusion yet limit success as plants become unrelated. To investigate these aspects, we developed a micrografting method using young conifer tree seedlings that enabled divergent conifer members to successfully graft. Conifer grafts showed rapid connection of phloem and xylem at the junction, while a genome-wide transcriptome analysis of the Picea abies (Norway spruce) healing junction revealed differential expression of thousands of genes including those related to auxin response and cell wall biogenesis. We compared these genes to those induced during Arabidopsis thaliana graft healing and found a common activation of cambium, cell division, phloem and xylem-related genes. A gene regulatory network analysis revealed that PHYTOCHROME A SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION 1 (PAT1) acted as a central hub during Picea grafting and was also induced during Arabidopsis grafting. Arabidopsis mutants lacking PATs failed to attach tissues or successfully graft, while complementing Arabidopsis PAT mutants with the Picea abies PAT1 homolog could rescue tissue attachment and enhance callus formation. Together, our data demonstrate a competency for young tissues to graft to distantly related species and identifies the PAT gene family as conserved regulators of graft healing and tissue regeneration in eudicots and gymnosperms.
Project description:The tomato SlWRKY3 transcription factor was overexpressed in cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)and transgenic plants transcriptome was compared to that of wild-type plants.
Project description:Tomato is one of the most important crops for human consumption. Unfortunately, its production is affected by diseases caused by pathogens such as the actynomicete Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganens (Cmm). This pathogen is the causal agent of the bacterial canker of tomato, considered one of the most devastating tomato diseases. To date, there are not resistant varieties of commercial tomato against Cmm. However, there are wild tomato species resistant to Cmm. Using massive sequencing, we obtained the transcriptomes of the wild tomato species Solanum arcanum LA2157 and the commercial tomato Solanum lycopersicum cv. Ailsa Craig at 8 and 24 hours after Cmm challenge. We identified potential tomato tolerance-related genes by three approaches: mapping the reads to S. lycopersicum reference genome SL3.0, performing a semi de novo transcriptome assembly and a de novo transcriptome assembly. Some functional groups such as oxylipin biosynthetic process response to wounding, response to cytokinin among others, were enriched in both tomato species, suggesting a similar response, however, genes that encode proteins such as the Polyphenol oxidase E, Ankyrin and Leucine Rich Repeat receptors were overexpressed mainly in the wild tomato species, suggesting a possible role in the defense response. Here, we uncovered new candidate genes potentially related to bacterial canker tomato defense.
Project description:We have used cDNA-AFLP and microarray analyses to profile the response of the tomato meiotic anther transcriptome to moderate heat stress condition in Moneymaker or Falcorosso and HeatSet1 tomato genotype.
