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: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: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: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. Keywords: time course
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.