ABSTRACT: Soil Mineral Composition and Salinity are the Main Factors Regulating Bacterial Community Associated with the Root of Coastal Sand Dune Halophytes
Project description:In estuaries and coastal areas, salinity regimes vary with river discharge, seawater evaporation, morphology of the coastal waterways, and dynamics of marine water mixing. Therefore, microalgae have to respond to salinity variations at various time scales, from daily to annual cycling. They might also adapt to physical alteration that might induce loss of connectivity and enclosure of water bodies. Here we integrate physiological-based assays, morphological plasticity with functional genomics approach to examine the regulatory change that occur during the acclimation to salinity in an estuary diatom, Thalassiosira weissflogii. We found that this diatom respond to salinity (i.e. 21, 28 and 35 psu) with minute adjustments of its physiology (i.e., carbon and silicon metabolisms, pigments concentration and photosynthetic parameters). In contrast after short- (~ 5 generations) or long-term (~ 700 generations) culture at the different salinity we found a large transcriptome reprogramming. With most of the genes being down-regulated in long-term, and only a few genes in common between short and long term experiments.
Project description:Expression profiling of the stress response of the marine Planctomycete Rhodopirellula baltica after a salinity up-shift. R. baltica cultures were grown at 28°C in mineral media with 17.5% salinity and up-shifted to 59.9%. Samples were taken after 10, 20, 40, 60 and 300min and compared with cultures before the up-shift.
Project description:Expression profiling of the stress response of the marine Planctomycete Rhodopirellula baltica after a salinity up-shift. R. baltica cultures were grown at 28°C in mineral media with 17.5% salinity and up-shifted to 59.9%. Samples were taken after 10, 20, 40, 60 and 300min and compared with cultures before the up-shift. Reference design, time series experiment Whole genome array 5 time points, 3 replicates per time point. In total, 18 samples.
Project description:A laboratory colony of Phlebotomus perniciosus sand flies was maintained. Sand flies were infected with cultured Leishmania infantum promastigotes in stationary phase. Ten infected sand flies were dissected after 5 days and promastigotes within the gut pooled. The cells were immediately washed in PBS once and lysed in TRIzol reagent (Life Technologies). RNA isolation was completed according to the manufacturer's instructions, obtaining 63ng. RNA-seq libraries were generated using the spliced leader sequence for second strand synthesis (Cuypers et al., 2017; Haydock et al., 2015), thus allowing for specific amplification of sequences from L. infantum promastigotes, thus avoiding contamination with material from the sand fly gut. Single-end sequencing was performed in an Illumina HiSeq2500 instrument and data analysis was conducted using bowtie2, samtools, featureCounts and Geneious. The main findings are: i) substantial differences in differential gene expression between sand fly-derived (sfPro) and cultured (acPro) promastigotes; and ii) over-expression of genes involved in metacyclogenesis in sfPro vs. acPro, including gp63 genes, autophagy genes, etc.
Project description:Analysis of root gene expression of salt-tolerant genotypes FL478, Pokkali and IR63731, and salt-sensitive genotype IR29 under control and salinity-stressed conditions during vegetative growth. Results provide insight into the genetic basis of salt tolerance in indica rice. Experiment Overall Design: Seedlings were cultured in sand and irrigated with a nutrient solution for 22 d (salt-treated) and 30 d (control) after germination, respectively. Salinity treatment was applied by adding NaCl and CaCl2 (5:1 molar concentration) in two steps over a period of 3 days (final electrical conductivity: 7.4 dS m-1) to prevent osmotic shock. All plants were harvested on day 30.