Project description:In this study, a newly developed 8x15K Fusarium graminearum Agilent microarray was applied to analyze transcriptional responses to azole fungicide treatment. Comparative statistical analysis of expression profiles from treated versus untreated fungal liquid cultures uncovered 1058 genes that were significantly differentially expressed. Among the 596 genes with significantly increased transcript levels, analyses using GeneOntology and FunCat annotations detected the ergosterol-biosynthesis pathway genes as the most significantly responding category, providing statistical confirmation of the mode-of-action of azole fungicides. Transcriptional profiling of 54 genes, which encode ABC transporters in F. graminearum, suggested that several of these might be involved in reducing intracellular fungicide concentration. In addition, several genes encoding transcription factors with similarity to yeast genes known to co-ordinate fungicide responses exhibited significant differential expression.
Project description:In this study, a newly developed 8x15K Fusarium graminearum Agilent microarray was applied to analyze transcriptional responses to azole fungicide treatment. Comparative statistical analysis of expression profiles from treated versus untreated fungal liquid cultures uncovered 1058 genes that were significantly differentially expressed. Among the 596 genes with significantly increased transcript levels, analyses using GeneOntology and FunCat annotations detected the ergosterol-biosynthesis pathway genes as the most significantly responding category, providing statistical confirmation of the mode-of-action of azole fungicides. Transcriptional profiling of 54 genes, which encode ABC transporters in F. graminearum, suggested that several of these might be involved in reducing intracellular fungicide concentration. In addition, several genes encoding transcription factors with similarity to yeast genes known to co-ordinate fungicide responses exhibited significant differential expression. Hybridization was performed with cRNA samples either derived from three independent untreated or three independent azole-treated liquid cultures (12 h at 5 mg/l tebuconazole).
Project description:Fusarium graminearum (teleomorph Gibberella zeae) is a prominent pathogen that infects major cereal crops, such as wheat, barley, and maize. Conidiogenesis had been intensively studied in Aspergillus nidulans and regulatory pathway genes have been known to regulate conidiogenesis in stage specific manner. We reported the functional analyses of flbD, abaA, and wetA orthologs in F. graminearum. To understand genome-wide transcriptional profiling of conidiation, we employed RNA-seq of the wild-type Fusarium graminearum Z-3639 and each gene deletion mutants with three time courses (0 h, 6 h and 12 h after induction of conidiogenesis). AbaA experiment: 6 samples examined: 0 h, 6 h and 12 h after induction of conidiogenesis of Fusarium graminearum Z-3639 wild type and ΔabaA(ΔabaA::gen) mutant strains WetA experiment: 3 samples examined: 0 h, 6 h and 12 h after induction of conidiogenesis of Fusarium graminearum ΔwetA(ΔwetA::gen) mutant strains flbD experiment: 3 samples examined: 0 h, 6 h and 12 h after induction of conidiogenesis of Fusarium graminearum ΔflbD(ΔflbD::gen) mutant strains
Project description:Fusarium graminearum (teleomorph Gibberella zeae) is a prominent pathogen that infects major cereal crops, such as wheat, barley, and maize. Conidiogenesis had been intensively studied in Aspergillus nidulans and regulatory pathway genes have been known to regulate conidiogenesis in stage specific manner. We reported the functional analyses of flbD, abaA, and wetA orthologs in F. graminearum. To understand genome-wide transcriptional profiling of conidiation, we employed RNA-seq of the wild-type Fusarium graminearum Z-3639 and each gene deletion mutants with three time courses (0 h, 6 h and 12 h after induction of conidiogenesis).
Project description:We performed transcriptome analysis using an Agilent custom Fusarium graminearum 8X15k microarray ver1.2 to profile the effects of L-Thr treatment in F. graminearum.
Project description:Fusarium graminearum is a plant pathogen that can cause the devastating cereal grain disease fusarium head blight (FHB) in temperate regions of the world. Previous studies have shown that F. graminearum can synthetize indole-3-acetic acid (auxin) using L-tryptophan (L-TRP)-dependent pathways. In the present study, Gene expression profiles were obtained using microarray analysis of RNAs from F. graminearum cultures in auxin producing conditions, treated with L-TRP, tryptamine (TAM) and indole-3 acetaldehyde (IAAld). A comparative expression profiling of all treatments identified candidate genes for auxin production in F. graminearum. Additional analysis of the expression profiling between L-TRP-treated and control cultures showed that L-TRP treatment induce the up-regulation of a series of genes with predicted function in the metabolism of L-TRP via anthranilic acid and catechol towards the tricarboxylic acid cycle.
Project description:We report a complete transcriptomic study of Fusarium graminearum in response to glucose, cellulose, xylan and cell wall fragments with a whole genome microarray from febit.
Project description:We report a complete transcriptomic study of Fusarium graminearum in response to glucose, cellulose, xylan and cell wall fragments with a whole genome microarray from febit. Fusarium graminearum was cultured at 25 °C on minimal M3 medium with glucose, birch wood xylan, carboxy methyl cellulose or hop cell wall as sole carbon source at a concentration of 10 g/L. Microarray experiments were achieved with a Geniom device (febit biomed, Germany). Each of the four tested condition was tested with two biological and two technical replicates.
Project description:Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a major disease of cereal crops caused by the fungus Fusarium graminearum (Fg). FHB affects the flowering heads (or spikes) and developing seeds. This study compare the gene expression profile in wheat spikelets (spk 2) inoculated with either water (mock treatment) or a pathogenic strain of Fusarium graminearum (WT); spikelets 2 were inoculated 24 hrs after a neighbour spikelet (spk 0) was treated with either water or F. graminerum mutant strain Tri6Δ or NoxABΔ. Spikelets 2 were sampled 8 and 24 hrs after the second treatment.
Project description:Bacterial pathogen Burkholderia glumae and fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum cause similar disease symptoms and often co-isolated from rice heads, inferring interactions between the two pathogens. F. graminearum is resistant to the bacterial toxin toxoflavin, a strong anti-microbial activity, produced by B. glumae. We isolated toxoflavin-sensitive mutants from transcription factor deletion mutant library of F. graminearum. To understand genome-wide transcriptional profiling, we performed RNA-seq analyses of F. graminearum wild-type strain GZ03639 and toxoflavin-sensitive mutant strains (∆GzZC190, ∆GzC2H008, ∆GzbZIP005) under toxoflavin condition.