Project description:Brassica nigra plants, a Brassicaceae close to Arabidopsis thaliana, was used for combined stresses experiments. In this study, we performed a whole-genome microarray analysis on five-week-old plants and compared untreated plants and plants treated different single or dual stresses: the larvae Pieris brassicae, egg extract of Pieris brassicae, the bacterial Xanthomonas campestris pv. raphani, the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae or by combined stresses eggs of P. brassicae / P. brassicae, X. campestris / P. brassicae, B. brassicae / P. brassicae.
Project description:Brassica nigra plants, a Brassicaceae close to Arabidopsis thaliana, was used for combined stresses experiments. In this study, we performed a whole-genome microarray analysis on five-week-old plants and compared untreated plants and plants treated with ozone at 70 ppb, larvae of Pieris brassicae or both ozone followed by P. brassicae insect.
Project description:Expression profiling of the affect of eggs of the Pieris brassicae butterfly on Arabidopsis thaliana local leaf vs. the distal leaf using leaf disks the size of the egg batch.
Project description:Plant defence against insects is well known to be affected by previous exposure to cues warning of herbivory. Using Arabidopsis thaliana and the herbivore Pieris brassicae, we addressed the question whether the maintenance of the effects of the warning cue depends on its reliability. We determined the transcriptomes of Arabidopsis leaves that were treated by P. brassicae egg deposition (i) five days after oviposition, (ii) one day after removal of the eggs following the egg treatment, (iii) three days after removal of the eggs, (iv) after two days of herbivory that started one day after removal of the eggs; or that were treated by chilling (v) five days after transfer to 4°C, (vi) one day after transfering the plants to 20°C following the chilling treatment, (vii) three days after transfering the plants to 20°C, (viii) after two days of herbivory that started one day after transfering the plants to 20°C. Arabidopsis thaliana Col-0 wild type plants were grown under short day conditions (10 h/14 h light/dark) at 20°C for 7 weeks. Subsequently (i) the plants were transferred to 4°C for 5 days, or (ii) Pieris brassicae deposited ca. 40 eggs on leaf 17 where they remained for five days, or (iii) as controls plants grew untreated for five days. Next, the plants were transferred back to 20°C and the eggs were removed, respectively. Next, all plants rested for 1 day at 20°C. Next, P. brassicae larvae were allowed to feed for 2 days on leaf 17 adjacent to the former egg deposit site or at a respective leaf region of chilling-treated or untreated plants. Control plants were not exposed to larvae. From all treated and untreated plants material from a leaf region proximal to the egg deposition and/or feeding site was harvested for transcriptome analysis.
Project description:Plants can cope with stress better if they experience a mild form of the stress before the actual \\"real\\" stress event. In Arabidopsis thaliana it is known that plants that harboured eggs of the White cabbage butterfly (Pieris brassicae) before larval feeding can defend better against the herbivore stress. The main aim of the experiment was to compare the priming effect induced by insect egg deposition of Pieris brassicae between vegetative and reproductive (first open flowers) Arabidopsis thaliana plants on the transcriptional level. We used a full factorial setup consisting of a) untreated control plants , b) plants which experienced eggs for 6 days without larval feeding after that period, c) plants which experienced no eggs before larval feeding for 24 hours d) plants which experienced eggs for 6 days and larval herbivory for 24 hours. This setup was conducted with 6 week old vegetative plants and 10 week old reproductive plants were the first flowers were open. For all treatments leaf tissue from the leaves that experienced egg oviposition and/or larval feeding were collected. From reproductive plants flower buds were collected as well.
Project description:To investigate the impact of a plant´s response to abiotic stress on plant defense against subsequent biotic stress, we determined the transcriptional response of Arabidopsis thaliana to low temperature stress (4°C) and subsequent mechanical wounding or larval feeding damage by the herbivores Mamestra brassicae (generalist) and Pieris brassicae (specialist). In total, 21%, 4% and 14% of all genes responsive to M. brassicae, P. brassicae or mechanical wounding were differentially regulated in previously cold-treated compared to untreated plants.
Project description:Plants can prepare their defense of impending herbivory, when they previously perceived eggs deposited by herbivores insect which reliably indicates that larvae will soon hatch and feed on the plants. Using Arabidopsis thaliana and Pieris brassicae we addressed the question whether prior egg deposition affects transcriptional changes in feeding-damaged plants. We determined the transcriptomes of Arabidopsis leaves that (i) were for six days deposited with eggs and suffered larval feeding for two days, (ii) suffered larval feeding for two days without prior egg deposition or (iii) were left untreated.
