Project description:Phosphate starvation/sufficient rice seedling, root or shoot Pi-starvation or Pi-sufficient stresses responsible rice genes, including previously unannotated genes were identified by Illumina mRNA-seq technology. 53 million reads from Pi-starvation or Pi-sufficient root or shoot tissues were uniquely mapped to the rice genome, and these included 40574 RAP3 transcripts in root and 39748 RAP3 transcripts in shoot. We compared our mRNA-seq expression data with that from Rice 44K oligomicroarray, and about 95.5% (root) and 95.4% (shoot) transcripts supported by the array were confirmed expression both by the array and by mRNA-seq, Moreover, 11888 (root) and 11098 (shoot) RAP genes which were not supported by array, were evidenced expression with mRNA-seq. Furthermore, we discovered 8590 (root) and 8193 (shoot) previously unannotated transcripts upon Pi-starvation and/or Pi-sufficient.
Project description:Climate change is affecting the unprecedented drought scenario and frequent occurrence of pathogen infection in rice. Simultaneous occurrence of these stresses could lead to more crop loss. Transcription response of genes involved in combined stress would provide relevant candidate gene to develop climate resilient rice. We report individual drought, Xoo infection and combined stress on rice. RNA Seq of contrasting genotypes BPT5204 and TN1 has revealed many candidate genes. A meta-analysis further filtered out some candidate genes which could be used for breeding programme. Several genes identified were already characterized by other groups for individual stress condition. However the genes involved in drought and pathogen infection could be further used for genetic manipulation studies in future.
Project description:Three rice major tissues, namely flag leaf, shoot and panicle, were involved in this study. Each tissue had two kinds stress treatment, drought and high salinity, in 3 different time courses. For drought treated samples, an additional water recovery was applied. Each experiment had three replicates. Keywords: Comparison of gene expression in three tissues with stress treatment and without treatment To globally elucidate potential genes involved in drought and high-salinity stresses responses in rice, an oligomer microarray covering 37,132 genes including cDNA or EST supported and putative genes was applied to study the expression profiling of shoot, flag leaf, and panicle under drought or high-salinity treatment. Three rice major tissues, namely flag leaf, shoot and panicle, were involved in this study. Each tissue had two kinds stress treatment, drought and high salinity, in 3 different time courses. For drought treated samples, an additional water recovery was applied. Each experiment had three replicates.
Project description:Phosphate (Pi) deficiency severely affects crop yield. Modern high yielding rice genotypes are sensitive to Pi deficiency whereas traditional rice cultivars are naturally compatible to low Pi ecosystems. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms for low Pi tolerance in traditional genotypes remain largely elusive. To delineate the molecular mechanisms for low Pi tolerance, two contrasting rice genotypes - Dular (low Pi tolerant) and PB1 (low Pi sensitive) - have been selected. Comparative morphophysiological, global transcriptome and lipidome analyses of root and shoot tissues of both genotypes raised under Pi deficient and sufficient conditions revealed the potential low Pi tolerance mechanisms of traditional genotype. Most of the genes associated with enhanced internal Pi utilization (phospholipid remobilization) and modulation of root system architecture (RSA) are highly induced in traditional rice genotype, Dular. Higher reserve of phospholipid and greater accumulation of galactolipids under low Pi in Dular indicated its better internal Pi utilization. Furthermore, Dular also maintained better root growth than PB1 under low Pi resulting in larger root surface area due to increased lateral root density and root hair length. Genes involved in enhanced low Pi tolerance of traditional genotype can be exploited to improve the low Pi tolerance of modern high yielding rice cultivars.
Project description:Three rice major tissues, namely flag leaf, shoot and panicle, were involved in this study. Each tissue had two kinds stress treatment, drought and high salinity, in 3 different time courses. For drought treated samples, an additional water recovery was applied. Each experiment had three replicates. Keywords: Comparison of gene expression in three tissues with stress treatment and without treatment
Project description:RNA-seq based urea-responsive transcriptomes of rice genotypes (Aditya & Vikramarya) with contrasting nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)
Project description:Abiotic stresses such as salinity are very important factors limiting rice growth and productivity around the world. Affymetrix rice genome array containing 48,564 japonica and 1,260 indica sequences was used to analyze the gene expression pattern of rice responsive to salinity stress, try to elucidate the difference of genome-wide gene expression profiling of two contrasting rice genotypes in response to salt stress and to discover the salinity related genes and gene interaction and networks. Under salinity condition, the number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in 177-103 was more than that in IR64, and most of up-regulated DEGs in 177-103 are response to stress. But in IR64, most of up-regulated DEGs are transcription related genes. The DEGs under salinity showed very strong tissue specificity, the number of DEGs in leaf was more than that in root. A lot of genes differentially expressed by exogenous ABA treatment under salinity condition, such as Leaf senescence protein, 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase 2 precursor and Protein of unknown function DUF26 were induced by ABA and contributed to salinity tolerance.