Project description:ra03-02_potyvirus - potyvirus - Identification of genes involved in plant/virus interactions. - In this experiment, Arabidopsis plants infected by a virus, Tobacco etch virus (TEV), a potyvirus, were compared with healthy plants to identify genes for which the expression is modified by the viral infection. Analysis of both inoculated leaves and upper young leaves were performed 7 days after the inoculation with the virus (or with only buffer for the healthy plants). Keywords: normal vs disease comparison
Project description:Belonging to the Carmovirus family, Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) is a positive-strand RNA virus that can infect Arabidopsis. Most Arabidopsis ecotypes are highly susceptible to TCV, except for the TCV resistant line Di-17 derived from ecotype Dijon. Previous studies showed that many of the stress related genes have changed significantly after TCV infection. Besides the virus-triggered genes, small RNAs also play critical roles in plant defense by triggering either transcriptional and/or post-transcriptional gene silencing. In this study, TCV-infected wildtype Arabidopsis thaliana and dcl1-9 mutant plants were subjected to transcriptome and small RNA analysis to investigate the role of DCL1 in virus defense network.
Project description:Belonging to the Carmovirus family, Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) is a positive-strand RNA virus that can infect Arabidopsis. Most Arabidopsis ecotypes are highly susceptible to TCV, except for the TCV resistant line Di-17 derived from ecotype Dijon. Previous studies showed that many of the stress related genes have changed significantly after TCV infection. Besides the virus-triggered genes, small RNAs also play critical roles in plant defense by triggering either transcriptional and/or post-transcriptional gene silencing. In this study, TCV-infected wildtype Arabidopsis thaliana and dcl1-9 mutant plants were subjected to transcriptome and small RNA analysis to investigate the role of DCL1 in virus defense network.
Project description:Plant-parastic nematodes cause substantial crop losses worldwide. The sedentary endoparasite nematode Heterodera schachtii induces specialized feeding structures in host roots. The molecular mechanisms underlying feeding structure initiation and development remain poorly understood. High-resolution, spatially resolved transcriptomics is required to study localized gene expression patterns underlying feeding structure formation. Here, we introduce RNA tomography for plants, a powerful untargeted spatial transcriptomics technology that allows studying gene expression at cellular resolutions. We applied RNA tomography to Arabidopsis thaliana roots infected with H. schachtii at 1 and 2 days post inoculation. Our findings provide novel insights into early nematode parasitism.
