Project description:The environmental changes caused by climate change enhance the effects of land degradation. This faces a big challenge for agriculture to secure food production in the world. Because of the key role of plant roots in the soil and environment interactions, understanding the cell structures, genetic circuits, and mechanisms controlling the root architecture may help to mitigate these effects. However, the information about the role of the cell structures composing the root architecture, especially during early developmental stages, is very limited. Here we reported a high-dimensional imaging method to support the existence of a novel root hair-like structure in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), named ‘hooked hairs’, by combining with comparative RNA-sequencing analyses to other common bean hair-like structures confirming a distinct transcriptomic landscape with particular pathways enriched. We found a phenotypic response to phosphate and nitrate starvation, suggesting the role of these hooked hairs in nutrient uptake. Our results provided strong evidence for the importance of high-imaging phenotyping methods and transcriptomics to characterize complex root structures, confirming the plasticity of root epidermal cells to adapt to different environments during different developmental stages.
Project description:Phaseolus vulgaris was inoculated with water, and Pseudomonas syringae pv phasiolicola R5 (avirulent) and R8 (virulent) and sampled 24 h later. Tags 126, 127N, and 128C were assigned to water-treated control replicates; tags 129C, 130N, and 131 were assigned to R8-inoculated (susceptible) replicates; and tags 127C, 128N and 130C were assigned to R5-inoculated (resistant) replicates.
Project description:A wide range of environmental stresses lead to an elevated production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plant cells thus resulting in oxidative stress. The biological nitrogen fixation in the legume - Rhizobium symbiosis is at high risk of damage from oxidative stress. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) active nodules exposed to the herbicide Paraquat (1,1 '-Dimethyl-4, 4'-bipyridinium dichloride hydrate) that generates ROS accumulation, showed a reduced nitrogenase activity and ureide content. We analyzed the global gene response of stressed nodules using the Bean CombiMatrix Custom Array 90K, that includes probes from some 30,000 expressed sequence tags (EST). A total of 4,280 ESTs were differentially expressed in oxidative stressed bean nodules; of these 2,218 were repressed. These genes were grouped in 44 different biological processes as defined by Gene Onthology. Analysis with the PathExpress bioinformatic tool, adapted for bean, identified five significantly repressed metabolic path
Project description:Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a relevant crop cultivated over the world, largely in water insufficiency vulnerable areas. Since drought is the main environmental factor restraining worldwide crop production, efforts have been invested to amend drought tolerance in commercial common bean varieties. However, scarce molecular data are available for those cultivars of P. vulgaris with drought tolerance attributes. As a first approach, Pinto Saltillo (PS), Azufrado Higuera (AH), and Negro Jamapa Plus (NP) were assessed phenotypically and physiologically to determine the outcome in response to drought on these common bean cultivars. Based on this, a Next-generation sequencing approach was applied to PS, which was the most drought-tolerant cultivar to determine the molecular changes at the transcriptional level. The RNA-Seq analysis revealed that numerous PS genes are dynamically modulated by drought. In brief, 1005 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified, from which 645 genes were up-regulated by drought stress, whereas 360 genes were down-regulated. Further analysis showed that the enriched categories of the up-regulated genes in response to drought fit to processes related to carbohydrate metabolism (polysaccharide metabolic processes), particularly genes encoding proteins located within the cell periphery (cell wall dynamics). In the case of down-regulated genes, heat shock-responsive genes, mainly associated with protein folding, chloroplast, and oxidation-reduction processes were identified. Our findings suggest that secondary cell wall (SCW) properties contribute to P. vulgaris L. drought tolerance through alleviation or mitigation of drought-induced osmotic disturbances, making cultivars more adaptable to such stress. Altogether, the knowledge derived from this study is significant for a forthcoming understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in drought tolerance on common bean, especially for drought-tolerant cultivars such as PS.
Project description:P. syringae pv. phaseolicola is the causal agent of the halo blight disease of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L). The disease attacks both foliage and pods of plant host. Many genes involve in pathogenicity and virulence are induced only in plant or in the presence of host components. In this work we investigated the effect of bean pod extract on the transcriptomic profile of the bacterium, when grown at low temperature in minimal medium with or without bean pod extract.
Project description:A wide range of environmental stresses lead to an elevated production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plant cells thus resulting in oxidative stress. The biological nitrogen fixation in the legume - Rhizobium symbiosis is at high risk of damage from oxidative stress. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) active nodules exposed to the herbicide Paraquat (1,1 '-Dimethyl-4, 4'-bipyridinium dichloride hydrate) that generates ROS accumulation, showed a reduced nitrogenase activity and ureide content. We analyzed the global gene response of stressed nodules using the Bean CombiMatrix Custom Array 90K, that includes probes from some 30,000 expressed sequence tags (EST). A total of 4,280 ESTs were differentially expressed in oxidative stressed bean nodules; of these 2,218 were repressed. These genes were grouped in 44 different biological processes as defined by Gene Onthology. Analysis with the PathExpress bioinformatic tool, adapted for bean, identified five significantly repressed metabolic path This work presents the transcriptional profile of bean nodules, induced by strain Rhizobium tropici CIAT 899, under oxidative stress, generated experimentally by adding the herbicide Paraquat (1,1 '-Dimethyl-4, 4'-bipyridinium dichloride hydrate) for 48 hours. We analyzed the transcript profile, via microarray hybridization, using the Bean CombiMatrix Custom Array 90K, that includes probes from some 30,000 expressed sequence tags (EST). A total of 4,280 ESTs were differentially expressed in oxidative stressed bean nodules; of these 2,218 were repressed.
Project description:The goal of this study was to detemine the genes responsible of the pod indehiscence in Phaseolus vulgaris by comparing 4 accesions with total, middle and null dehiscence transcriptomes of three stages of pod develoment of Phaseolus vulgaris