Project description:Plants' tolerance to pathogenic stress is significantly influenced by jasmonic acid (JA), which promotes induced systemic resistance (ISR) in synergism with ethylene signaling. This study examines the role of exogenous JA priming inducing resistance in Piper betel L. under biotic stress from pathogens such as Colletotrichum, Phytopthora, Xanthomonas, Fusarium. The experimental setup included three groups: control plants that were neither infected nor treated with JA (N), infected plants without JA treatment (P), and JA-priming along with pathogenic infection (T3).
Project description:We report the transcriptional changes associated with toxic effects of methanolic coal dust extract on normal zebrafish development. Early exposure of wild type embryos at 4 hpf to coal dust extract led to 3 groups of malformed phenotypes - tail deformity (P1), deformed yolk (P2) and smaller embryos with extruded yolks (P3). RNAseq of each phenotypic group revealed changes in genes involved in xenobiotic metabolism, intermediate filament composition, oxidation-reduction processes, calcium ion binding, focal adhesion and the ECM-receptor interaction pathway.
