Project description:Following divergence from Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica rapa underwent a whole genome triplication followed by extensive genome fractionation. Preferential retention of circadian clock genes suggest that expansion of the circadian network may play an important role during B. rapa domestication. To characterize the circadian transcriptome network, RNA-seq was performed in the B. rapa oil-type variety R500 following photocycle and thermocycle circadian time courses. The photocycle (LDHH) time course consisted of growing plants for 15 days at 20°C under a 12h light/12h dark photoperiod and transfering plants to constant light and 20°C 24h prior to harvesting leaf tissue every 2h for 48h starting at ZT24 with 2 biological replicates at every time point. The thermocycle (LLHC) time course consisted of growing plants for 15 days under constant light with a 12h 20°C/12h 10°C thermoperiod and transfering plants to constant light and 20°C 24h prior to harvesting leaf tissue every 2h for 48h starting at ZT24 with 2 biological replicates at every time point.
Project description:Proteomics and phosphoproteomics analyses of circadian time course samples of Arabidopsis thaliana rosettes (22 DAS) in constant light.
Two independent experiments, with global proteomics and phosphoproteomics analyses for each.
Experiment I has a time point every 4h from ZT12 to ZT32, experiment 2 has a time point every 4h from ZT24 to ZT52. In each experiment, two genotypes were used - WT Col0 and the transcriptionally arrhythmic CCA1-Ox line.
Project description:Photoperiod is a circannual signal measured by biological systems to align growth and reproduction with the seasons. To understand the effect of photoperiod of gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana in the absence of exogenous sugar under constant light intensity, we performed time course mRNA-seq analysis on 13-day old seedlings across three photoperiods with triplicates to identify photoperiod-regulated genes.
Project description:In most organisms biological processes are partitioned, or phased to specific times over the day through interactions between external cycles of temperature (thermocycles) and light (photocycles), and the endogenous circadian clock. This orchestration of biological activities is achieved in part through an underlying transcriptional network. To understand how thermocycles, photocycles and the circadian clock interact to control time of day specific transcript abundance in Arabidopsis thaliana, we conducted four diurnal and three circadian two-day time courses using Affymetrix GeneChips (ATH1). All time courses were carried out with seven-day-old seedlings grown on agar plates under thermocycles (HC, hot/cold) and/or photocycles (LD, light/dark), or continuous conditions (LL, continuous light; DD, continuous dark, HH, continuous hot). Whole seedlings (50-100), including roots, stems and leaves were collected every four hours and frozen in liquid nitrogen. The four time courses interrogating the interaction between thermocycles, photocycles and the circadian clock were carried out as two four-day time courses. Four-day time courses were divided into two days under diurnal conditions, and two days under circadian conditions of continuous light and temperature. Thermocycles of 12 hours at 22C (hot) and 12 hours at 12C (cold) were used in this study. The two time courses interrogating photoperiod were conducted under short days (8 hrs light and 16 hrs dark) or long days (16 hrs light and 8 hrs dark) under constant temperature. In addition, the photoperiod time courses were in the Landsberg erecta (ler) accession, in contrast to the other time courses that are in the Columbia (col) background. The final time course interrogated circadian rhythmicity in seedlings grown completely in the dark (etiolated). Dark grown seedlings were synchronized with thermocycles, and plants were sampled under the circadian conditions of continuous dark and temperature.
Project description:To gain insights into the mechanisms of TOC1 function in the Arabidopsis circadian clock we performed transcriptional profiling of Wild-Type (WT) and and TOC1 mutant plants (toc1-2) under constant light conditions for two days. Comparisons of WT and toc1-2. Two biological replicates each per array. Two Arabidopsis Oligonucleotide Microarrays (two-color Cy3 and Cy5). synchronized under 12-hour light:12-hour dark (LD) cycles for 10 days followed by two days under constant light conditions. Samples were collected at circadian time 16 (CT16).
Project description:Most higher organisms, including plants and animals, have developed a time-keeping mechanism that allows them to anticipate daily fluctuations of environmental parameters such as light and temperature. This circadian clock efficiently coordinates plant growth and metabolism with respect to time-of-day by producing self-sustained rhythms of gene expression with an approximately 24-hour period. The importance of these rhythms has in fact been demonstrated in both phytoplankton and higher plants: organisms that have an internal clock period matched to the external environment possess a competitive advantage over those that do not. We used microarrays to identify circadian-regulated genes of Arabidopsis thaliana to elucidate how the clock provides an adaptive advantage by understanding how the clock regulates outputs and determining which pathways and processes may be under circadian control. Experiment Overall Design: Groups of Arabidopsis seedlings were grown in light/dark cycles for 7 d before, transferred to constant light, and after 24 h in constant light 12 samples were harvested at 4-h intervals over the next 44 h for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:Arabidopsis thaliana exhibits differential susceptibility to the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea depending on the time of day that infection occurs. We hypothesised that this is driven by teh circadian clock and that differences in the amplitude or speed of the plant defence response will underlie the difference in susceptiblity. A major component of the defence response is transcriptional reprogramming, hence we investigated whether the transcriptional response to B. cinerea infection differs following inoculation at subjective dawn or night (the points of greatest difference in susceptiblity) under constant light conditions.