Project description:The present project deals with bark beetle gut total proteome from callow and black bark beetle, Ips typographus. The study aims to identify life stage-specific expression of gut proteins in bark beetles and their functional relevance.
Project description:Seasonal nitrogen (N) storage and reuse is important to the N-use efficiency of temperate deciduous trees. In poplar, bark storage proteins (BSPs) accumulate in protein storage vacuoles of the bark parenchyma and xylem ray cells in the fall. During spring growth, N from stored BSPs is remobilized and utilized by growing shoots. The goal of this study is to investigate global gene expression changes in the bark during BSP remobilization and shoot regrowth under long-day conditions.
Project description:The periderm of trees produces cork cells, whose cell walls are modified with suberin. We compared the transcriptome of outer bark (cork) vs inner bark (control containing secondary phloem and vacular meristem) to infer genes related to suberim metabolism.
Project description:We report the temporal dynamics of differential gene expression between primed and unprimed beetles infected with the entomopathogen Bt