Project description:Tissue-specific transcriptional profiling of the abscission layer (AL) at the base of young flower in rice using laser micro-dissection: NIL(qSH1) vs. Nipponbare. We used two rice varieties, NIL(qSH1) and Nipponbare. NIL(qSH1) is a nearly isogenic line containing the seed shattering gene qSH1. Seed shattering is easy in NIL(qSH1), but it is not in Nipponbare. So, we used some stages of young flower in NIL(qSH1) and some in Nipponbare. Four regions: 1. abscission layer region of NIL(qSH1), 2. upper abscission region of NIL(qSH1), 3. lower abscission layer region of NIL(qSH1), and 4. abscission layer region of Nipponbare. Sample experiments: NIL(qSH1) AL vs. Nipponbare AL, NIL(qSH1) AL vs. NIL(qSH1) upper region of AL, and NIL(qSH1) AL vs. NIL(qSH1) lower region of AL.
Project description:Tissue-specific transcriptional profiling of the abscission layer (AL) at the base of young flower in rice using laser micro-dissection: NIL(qSH1) vs. Nipponbare.
Project description:The APETALA2 (AP2) transcription factor regulates flower development, floral transition and shoot apical meristem (SAM) maintenance in Arabidopsis. AP2 is also regulated at the post-transcriptional level by microRNA172 (miR172), but the contribution of this to SAM maintenance is poorly understood. We generated transgenic plants carrying a form of AP2 that is resistant to miR172 (rAP2) or carrying a wild-type AP2 susceptible to miR172. Phenotypic and genetic analyses were performed on these lines and mir172 mutants to study the role of AP2 regulation by miR172 on meristem size and the rate of flower production. We found that rAP2 enlarges the inflorescence meristem by increasing cell size and cell number. Misexpression of rAP2 from heterologous promoters showed that AP2 acts in the central zone (CZ) and organizing center (OC) to increase SAM size. Furthermore, we found that AP2 is negatively regulated by AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 3 (ARF3). However, genetic analyses indicated that ARF3 also influences SAM size and flower production rate independently of AP2. The study identifies miR172/AP2 as a regulatory module controlling inflorescence meristem size and suggests that transcriptional regulation of AP2 by ARF3 fine tunes SAM size determination.
Project description:CGH was used to map structural variation (introgressed regions) among soybean iron-inefficient NIL IsoClark with its iron-efficient recurrent parent Clark and donor parent T203. Another NIL series HiPro, LoPro was also used in the study.
Project description:In the study, RBSDV accumulation was detected in NIL-S starting from 16 days post inoculation (dpi) and increased linearly thereafter to reach a high level. Concurrently, the viral S10 encoding the coat protein exhibited a dramatic accumulation in NIL-S but not in NIL-R, as did the viral S7-1. We performed RNA-seq analysis at 16 dpi between NIL-S and NIL-R. The differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified based on the criteria of fold-change > 2 and P < 0.05. Compared to NIL-R, NIL-S exhibited 24 downregulated and 21 upregulated DEGs. Gene Ontology (GO) term analysis revealed that these DEGs are mainly enriched in one molecular process: oxidoreductase activity, and in three biological processes: biology, oxidation-reduction, and single-organism. KEGG analysis demonstrated significant DEG enrichment in three pathways: photosynthesis-antenna proteins, fatty acid elongation, and diterpenoid biosynthesis.
Project description:To investigate the genetic relationship between two major grain length loci GS3 and qGL3, we developed the near-isogenic lines (NILs), NIL-GS3 (GS3/qGL3), NIL-qgl3 (gs3/qgl3), NIL-GS3/qgl3 (GS3/qgl3) in the background of 93-11 (gs3/qGL3) by crossing and MAS approach.
Project description:Whether, and to what extent, phenotypic evolution follows predictable genetic paths, remains an important question in evolutionary biology. Convergent evolution of similar characters provides a unique opportunity to address this question. The transition to selfing and the associated changes in flower morphology are among the most prominent examples of repeated evolution in plants. Yet, to date no studies have directly compared the extent of similarities between convergent adaptations to selfing. In this study, we take advantage of the independent transitions to self-fertilization in the genus Capsella to test the existence of genetic and developmental constraints imposed on flower evolution in the context of the selfing syndrome. While C. rubella and C. orientalis have emerged independently, both have evolved almost identical flower characters. Not only the evolutionary outcome is identical but, in both cases, the same developmental strategies underlie the convergent reduction of flower size. This has been associated with convergent evolution of gene-expression changes. The transcriptomic changes common to both selfing lineages are enriched in genes with low-network connectivity and with organ-specific expression patterns. Comparative genetic mapping also indicates that, at least in the case of petal size evolution, these similarities are largely caused by mutations at the same loci. Together, these results suggest that the limited availability of low-pleiotropy paths predetermine closely related species to similar evolutionary outcomes.
