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:Floral organs are extremely sensitive to stress during anthesis and lead to severe yield loss. Rice anthers and pollinated pistils of two cultivars with contrasting tolerance to heat and drought stress under variable conditions, including control, heat, combined heat and drought stress, were used to explore gene expression pattern in male and female reproductive organs during anthesis under control and stress conditions. More gene regulation was induced by combined drought and heat stress than heat in anthers of both cultivars. N22 showed less regulation under combined stress than Moroberekan. The overlap of regulated genes between two cultivars was rather low, indicated the distinct molecular stress responses. We used whole genome microarrays to explore gene expression pattern and molecular mechanisms in male and female reproductive organs during anthesis under control and stress conditions in two rice cultivars, sought to identify the key transcripts that play roles in inducing heat and drought tolerance during reproduction in rice.
Project description:This study explored the transcriptomic response of couch grass rhizome meristhematic region exposed to mild, medium and severe drought. The couch grass stress response was compared with the response of two contrasting barley cultivars and the specificities and commonalities in transcriptomic stress response of both species were identified.
Project description:The transcriptome of leaves from two Anthurium cultivars, Oregon (Elegang, E, cold tolerant) and Fantasy love (Menghuan, MH, cold sensitive) under cold stress were sequenced by Illumina Novaseq™ 6000. Sequencing generated a total of 129.44 Gb of raw reads and an average of 7.19 Gb of reads for each sample. The analysis showed differences of transcriptomes between the control and the cold treatment samples. We identified numerous differentially expressed genes that exhibited distinct expression patterns. These genes have known or potential roles inAnthurium cold tolerance.Therefore, we are appealing candidates for further investigation of the gene expression and associated regulatory mechanisms related to the cold stress response of A. andraeanum.
Project description:Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) is an economically and agriculturally significant fruit crop and is widely cultivated throughout the world. Heat stress has recently become one of the major abiotic stresses limiting plant growth and productivity. However, there are few studies on the transcriptome profiling of jujube subjected to heat stress. In this study, we analyzed the physiological and transcriptomic changes of heat-resistant jujube cultivar ‘HR’ and heat-sensitive cultivar ‘HS’ caused by high temperature stress. We statistically determined 984, 1468, 1727 and 2098 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between ‘HR’ and ‘HS’ after 0, 1, 3, 5 d of heat stress, respectively. Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis indicated that Aa great deal of heat-responsive genes were identified in these DEGs by Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis. It suggests the distinct molecular mechanism of jujube response to heat stress. Furthermore, we validated the expression profiles of 12 candidates using qRT-PCR to further confirm the accuracy of the RNA-seq data. These results will advance our knowledge of the genes involved in the complex regulatory networks of heat stress and provide genetic resources for further improving the heat tolerance in jujube.
Project description:Background: Rice grain production is susceptible to a changing environment that imposes both biotic and abiotic stress conditions. Cold episodes are becoming more frequent in the last years and directly affect rice yield in areas with a temperate climate. Rice is particularly susceptible to cold stress during the reproductive phase, especially in anthers during post-meiotic stages which, in turn, affect pollen production. However, a number of rice cultivars with a certain degree of tolerance to cold have been described, which may represent a good breeding resource for improvement of susceptible commercial varieties. Plants experiencing cold stress activate a molecular response in order to reprogram many metabolic pathways to face these hostile conditions. Results: Here we performed RNA-seq analysis using cold-stressed post-meiotic anther samples from a cold-tolerant, Erythroceros Hokkaido (ERY), and a cold-susceptible commercial cultivar Sant´Andrea (S.AND). Both cultivars displayed an early common molecular response to cold, although the changes in expression levels are much more drastic in the tolerant one. Comparing our datasets, obtained after one-night cold stress, with other similar genome-wide studies showed very few common deregulated genes, leading to the conclusion that molecular responses in cold-stressed anthers strongly depend on conditions and the duration of the cold treatments. Cold-tolerant ERY exhibits specific molecular responses related to ethylene metabolism, which appears to be activated after cold stress. On the other hand, S.AND cold-treated plants showed a general downregulation of photosystem I and II genes, supporting a role of photosynthesis and chloroplasts in cold responses in anthers, which has remained elusive. Conclusions: Our study revealed that a number of ethylene-related transcription factors, as putative master regulators of cold responses, were upregulated in ERY providing promising candidates to confer tolerance to susceptible cultivars. Our results also suggest that the photosynthesis machinery might be a good target to improve cold tolerance in anthers. In summary, our study provides valuable candidates for further analysis and molecular breeding for cold-tolerant rice cultivars.