Project description:The present transcript profiling compares the gene expression during cold-acclimation in different genotypes of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rye (Secale cereale L.) in order to determine factors influencing frost tolerance. Because of its outstanding robustness against adverse environmental conditions rye is considered to be a model species for abiotic stress tolerance. Wheat is moderate frost-tolerant and barley is most sensitive species in this study. The aim of this study elucidate conserved, as well as, species-specific gene regulation across the Triticeae. Furthermore, transcript abundances were correlated between the distinct frost tolerances of genotypes within each species in order to find candidate genes for frost tolerance.
Project description:This dataset is associated with two publications 1. Elucidating the biochemical basis of trans-16:1 fatty acid change in leaves during cold acclimation in wheat. http://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10044 In this study, comparative RNA-seq analyses with leaf tissues undergoing cold acclimation reveal concerted transcriptome shifts indicating a reduced chloroplast lipid pathway activity and increased cytosolic ER membrane lipid synthesis. To explore the underlying metabolic and transcriptional mechanisms responsible for the reduction of the t16:1 under cold, a detailed lipid analysis and comparative transcriptome study were conducted with four wheat cultivars during cold treatment. The RNA-seq dataset includes four wheat cultivars (Manitou, Winter Manitou, Norstar and Spring Norstar) treated with cold paired with control. The data as a whole show that leaf tissues experience a gradual decrease in chloroplast lipid pathway activity and the variation in the decline of chloroplast lipid synthesis in different cultivars manifest in the rate of decrease in t16:1decrease in leaf tissues. Future efforts are required to determine if and how the down regulation of the chloroplast lipid pathway is related to the development of winter hardiness. 2. Computational genomics insights into cold acclimation in wheat. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1015673 In this study, integrated computational approaches was employed to investigate the transcriptomics and lipidomics data associated with cold acclimation and vernalization in the four wheat genotypes of distinct cold tolerance. Differential expression was investigated between cold treated and control samples and between the winter-habit and spring-habit wheat genotypes. Collectively, 12,676 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified. Principal component analysis of these DEGs indicated that the first, second, and third principal components (PC1, PC2, and PC3) explained the variance in cold treatment, vernalization and cold hardiness, respectively. Differential expression feature extraction (DEFE) analysis revealed that the winter-habit wheat genotype Norstar had high number of unique DEGs (1884 up and 672 down) and 63 winter-habit genes, which were clearly distinctive from the 64 spring-habit genes based on PC1, PC2 and PC3. Correlation analysis revealed 64 cold hardy genes and 39 anti-hardy genes. Cold acclimation encompasses a wide spectrum of biological processes and the involved genes work cohesively as revealed through network propagation and collective association strength of local subnetworks. Integration of transcriptome and lipidomics data revealed that the winter-habit genes, such as COR413-TM1, CIPKs and MYB20, together with the phosphatidylglycerol lipids, PG(34:3) and PG(36:6), played a pivotal role in cold acclimation and coordinated cohesively associated subnetworks to confer cold tolerance. Citations: http://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10044 https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1015673
Project description:Rye, wheat and barley contain gluten, proteins that trigger immune-mediated inflammation of the small intestine in people with coeliac disease (CD). The only treatment for CD is a lifelong gluten-free diet. To be classified as gluten-free by the World Health Organisation the gluten content must be below 20 mg/kg, but Australia has a more rigorous standard of no detectable gluten and not made from wheat, barley, rye or oats. The purpose of this study was to devise an LC-MS/MS method to detect rye in food. An MS-based assay could overcome some of the limitations of current immunoassays, wherein antibodies often show cross-reactivity and lack specificity due to the diversity of gluten proteins in commercial food and the homology between rye and wheat gluten isoforms. Comprehensive proteomic analysis of 20 rye cultivars originating from 12 countries enabled the identification of a panel of candidate rye-specific peptide markers. The peptide markers were assessed in 16 cereal and pseudo-cereal grains, and in 10 breakfast cereals and 7 snacks foods. Spelt flour was contaminated with rye at a level of 2% and trace levels of rye were found in a breakfast cereal that based on its labelled ingredients should be gluten-free.
Project description:Peptides released from gluten proteins during gastrointestinal digestion can trigger various wheat-related disorders, including celiac disease (CeD), wheat allergy, and wheat allergy dependent on augmentation factors (WALDA). Our study aimed to identify and quantify these immunoreactive peptides (IPs) in relation to gluten digestibility. We compared the gluten digestibility of different cereals and examined its temperature-dependent impact. Wheat, rye, and barley flours, along with their yeast-leavened and sourdough-fermented breads, were subjected to simulated in vitro gastrointestinal digestion following the INFOGEST protocol. The resulting peptides were identified and relatively quantified using nano liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. The residual gluten peptide content in the digesta was measured using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. No differences in digestibility were observed between white wheat flour and whole grain flour. Among the three cereals, barley flour had the lowest digestibility, while wheat flour had the highest, based on average peptide sequence length and gluten content of the digesta. We identified 569 IPs in wheat flour digesta, compared to only 388 IPs found in rye and barley samples, respectively. For wheat and barley, most IPs were linked to CeD, whereas rye showed equal abundance of IPs associated with both CeD and WALDA. A comparison of digestibility between bread crust and crumb revealed that higher temperatures, as reached in the crust, reduced gluten digestibility and increased IP abundance. Furthermore, the gluten digestibility of the crumb was higher than that of the flour, indicating that the bread-making process positively affected digestibility.
Project description:we investigated the transcriptome of barley albina and xantha mutants and the corresponding wild type to assess the effect of the chloroplast on expression of cold-regulated genes Keywords: stress response
Project description:In this study we used the Affymetrix Barley 1 GeneChip to investigate transcriptome responses of barley cv. Morex to low temperature, including triplicated measurements of cold, freeze/thaw cycles and de-acclimation over 33 days. Keywords: stress response
Project description:Experiment was designed to identify transcriptome changes during cold acclimation of Drosophila melanogaster male flies. Resistance to cold is often measured by recovery times from chill coma, which is induced almost immediately upon exposure to low but non-freezing temperatures (~0C), with flies becoming immobilised and losing motor activity. This paralysis is also ostensibly reversible upon return to normal temperatures, although again there can be longer term effects. Acclimation for increased cold resistance requires exposure periods ranging from hours or days to several weeks at low temperatures between 0C to 12C, and samples were taken during the cold acclimation period (1 hr, 2 hr, 3 hr, 6 hr, 12 hr, 24 hr, 36 hr and 48 hr).
Project description:To understand physiological mechanisms of cold acclimation in pea, we performed a transcriptomique analysis in order to compare the response to LT treatment in two varieties, one being cold tolerant (Champagne) and the other cold sensitive (Terese).
Project description:To distinguish transcripts expressed from each of the three wheat genomes and those from the rye chromatins, genomic probes generated from diploid progenitors of wheat and rye were synthesized
Project description:The aim of this study was to identify genetic mechanisms of tolerance to active de-acclimation in winter wheat by comparing four tolerant and four susceptible accessions (cultivars and advanced breeding lines). The plants were kept in controlled conditions. 21 days after sowing, the plants were cold acclimated (3 weeks, 4/2 °C, day/night temperature; photoperiod of 10/14 h). Cold acclimation was followed by 7 days of de-acclimating conditions, mimicking a mid-winter warm spell: 12/5°C, day/night temperature; photoperiod of 10/14 h). The fragments of leaves were sampled in three biological replicates (three different plants of the same accession) in three timepoints: just before cold-acclimation (CA-0), after cold-acclimation (CA-21), and after de-acclimation (DA-28). Total RNA samples were sequenced on Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform in PE150 bp mode. Differences in expression for a given accession were tested between all time-points, averaging the results for three biological replicates. It has been confirmed that active de-acclimation is not simply the inverse of cold acclimation, and that susceptible forms show significantly more changes in expression as a result of de-acclimation than tolerant forms. This provides further support for the hypothesis that tolerance to de-acclimation consists mainly of the absence or weakest response to temperature rise. Among the genes whose expression was significantly altered as a result of de-acclimation, a significant group were genes related to the defence response to stress. In wheat particularly plant hormone related genes, and plant hormones, seem to be playing a crucial role in the response to active de-acclimation, especially ABA and SA. Our results also suggest that in wheat the period of cold-acclimation might be decisive in the later active de-acclimation tolerance.