Project description:The mian goal of the study was to identify drought responsive genes of Indian mulberry (Morus alba L.) leaf tissue. Drought stress was imposed at whole plant leve; usig gravimetric approach. Leaf tissue was harvested 14 days post drought stress imposition and used for transcriptome analaysis. Two levels of drought stress (100% and 40% soil field capacity) was maintained by controlled irrigation. The leaf tissue was collected, total RNA was isolated converted to cDNA and used for analysis
Project description:Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum, is a lethal disease of mulberry, but the molecular mechanisms of the host resistance responses to R. solanacearum remain unclear. In order to better understand molecular resistance mechanisms to R. solanacearum in mulberry, we set out to define the changes in gene expression of resistance and susceptible mulberry cultivars after inoculation with R. solanacearum. Susceptible cultivar YSD10, resistance cultivar KQ10 and YS283 were inoculation with R. solanacearum, mulberry root samples were collected at 1 dpi and non-treated control in all cultivars. Then we performed RNA-Seq analyses on all mulberry root samples using Illumina HiSeq 2000.