Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study are to compare differentially expressed transcripts in leaves of watermelon during drought stress using transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq)
Project description:Purpose: The goals of this study are to compare differentially expressed transcripts in seedlings of watermelon during salt stress using transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq)
Project description:Drought is one of the major factor that limits crop production and reduces yield. To understand the early response of plants under nearly natural conditions, pepper plants were grown in a greenhouse and drought stressed by withholding water for one week. Plants adapted to the decreasing water content of the substrate by adjustment of their osmotic potential in roots by accumulation of raffinose, glucose, galactinol and proline. In contrast in leaves levels of fructose, sucrose and also galactinol increased. Due to the water deficit cadaverine, putrescine, spermidine and spermine accumulated in leaves whereas the concentration of polyamines was reduced in roots. These polyamines are suggested to rather act as stress protectants than for osmotic adjustment. To understand the molecular basis of the response to this early drought stress better, four suppression subtractive hybridisation libraries from leaves and roots were constructed. Microarray technique was used to identify differentially expressed genes. A total of 109 unique ESTs were detected. The diversity of the putative functions of all identified genes confirms the complexity of the plant response to drought stress. Keywords: Transcription profiling Two-condition experiment in roots and leaves, control leaves (CL) vs. drought-stressed leaves (DL) and control roots (CR) vs. drought-stressed roots (DR). Biological replicates: 4 control (1-4), drought-stressed (1-4), independently grown and harvested. One swap replicate per array.
Project description:Drought is one of the major factor that limits crop production and reduces yield. To understand the early response of plants under nearly natural conditions, pepper plants were grown in a greenhouse and drought stressed by withholding water for one week. Plants adapted to the decreasing water content of the substrate by adjustment of their osmotic potential in roots by accumulation of raffinose, glucose, galactinol and proline. In contrast in leaves levels of fructose, sucrose and also galactinol increased. Due to the water deficit cadaverine, putrescine, spermidine and spermine accumulated in leaves whereas the concentration of polyamines was reduced in roots. These polyamines are suggested to rather act as stress protectants than for osmotic adjustment. To understand the molecular basis of the response to this early drought stress better, four suppression subtractive hybridisation libraries from leaves and roots were constructed. Microarray technique was used to identify differentially expressed genes. A total of 109 unique ESTs were detected. The diversity of the putative functions of all identified genes confirms the complexity of the plant response to drought stress. Keywords: Transcription profiling
Project description:Cassava is a drought–resistant food crop in tropical and subtropical regions. Although cassava is a relatively drought-tolerant species, the development and yields are greatly affected by the adverse drought conditions. Information about molecular breeding will obtain by studying genetic regulatory mechanism. In this study, we demonstrate the drought-tolerant mechanisms in leaves of both cassava varieties(Xinxuan048 and KU50) by using RNA-Seq technique. 1,880 and 2,066 differentially expressed genes(DEGs) were induced by drought stress in leaves of KU50 and Xinxuan048, respectively. DEGs in the response to drought stress involve in many regulated pathways. ROS- and ABA-associated signaling pathways and photosynthesis-associated regulation are mainly elucidated. In addition, alternative splicing and ingle nucleotide polymorphism also involve in drought-stress responses in both cassava varieties, showing their important roles in response to drought stress in leaves. This study not only increases the understanding of physiological and molecular mechanisms to the drought response in cassava, but also lays a solid foundation on the breeding of drought-resistant varieties using molecular methods.
Project description:Drought-treated and corresponding control root tissue of poplar was subjected to array analyses Two-condition experiment, control (K) vs. Drought-stressed (S) leaves. Biological replicates: 3 control (1-3), drought-exposed (1-3), independently grown and harvested. One swap replicate per array.
Project description:To identify genes that are drought-responsive we conducted drought (soil water depletion) experiments on 3-month-old *P*. *trichocarpa *clonal plants. The plants undergo five different stages based on the appearance of their shoots and leaves during the drought experiments. Stage I: The shoot and leaves are green, and the leaves are well-spread. Stage II: The leaves are droopy. Stage III: The shoot is droopy, and the leaves are partially dry. Stage IV: The leaves are brown and totally dry. Stage V: The shoot is brown. With fully irrigation, the soil water content is 74% and the xylem water content is 80.6%. Plants in Stage III (Day 5) are under a mild drought state. The soil and xylem water content in Stage III dropped to 33% and 75.3%, respectively. Stage IV (Day 6-10) is a severe drought state where the soil and xylem water content continued decreasing to 29% and 74.3%, respectively in Day 7. The stressed plants from Stage I-IV could all recover in 3 days after rehydration, but the plants in Stage V could not recover after rehydration.