Transcriptomic study of Arabidopsis quadruple mutant (quad) for bassinosteroid receptors (BRI1, BRL1 & BRL3) and correceptor (BAK1), in control conditions and under severe drought
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Project description:Abstract: Drought is the primary cause of global agricultural losses and represents a major threat to worldwide food security. Currently, plant biotechnology stands out as the most promising strategy to increase crop growth in rain-fed conditions. The main mechanisms underlying drought resistance have been uncovered by studies of plant physiology and by engineering crops with drought-resistant genes. However, plants with enhanced drought resistance usually display lower levels of growth, highlighting the need to search for novel strategies capable of uncoupling drought resistance from growth. Here, we show that the brassinosteroid family of receptors, in addition to promoting growth, guides phenotypic adaptation to a great variety of drought stress traits analyzed herein. Whilst mutations in the ubiquitously localized BRI1 receptor pathway show an enhanced drought resistance at the expense of plant growth, we found that vascular-enriched BRL3 receptors confer drought tolerance without penalizing overall growth. Systematic analyses reveal that upon drought stress the BRL3 receptor pathway triggers the synthesis and mobilization of osmoprotectant metabolites, mainly proline and sugars. This preferentially occurs in the vascular tissues of the roots and favors overall plant growth. Altogether, our results uncover a new role for the spatial control of BR signaling in drought tolerance, and offer a novel strategy to address food security issues in an increasingly water-limited climate.
2018-09-04 | GSE119383 | GEO
Project description:Climate change is having a drastic impact on global agriculture. Indeed stress factors such as elevated temperature, drought and rising atmospheric CO2 reduce arable land surface, crop cultivation and yield and overall sustainable food production on earth. However, plants possess immense innate adaptive plasticity and a more in-depth understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms is crucial to strategize for sustaining populations under worsening climate change. Brassinosteroids (BRs) are constitutive plant growth regulators that also control plant adaptation to abiotic stress. Downstream components of the BR biosynthetic pathway, BES1/BZR1 play central role in thermomorphogenesis, but involvement of the BR receptors is not well understood. Here, we show that the BRL3 receptor is essential for plant adaptation to warmer environment. The brl3 mutants lack thermal responsiveness and the BRL3 overexpression causes hyper-thermomorphogenesis response. BRL3 activates canonical BRI1 pathway upon elevated temperature. Further, phloem-specific expression of BRL3 completely rescues the growth adaptation defects of the brl3 mutant. This ability of BRL3 represents a previously unknown thermoresponsive mechanism specifically from phloem and uncouples the roles of BR receptors in generic growth vs adaptation to changing climate conditions.
2021-12-06 | GSE190107 | GEO
Project description:bri1-5 is a weak mutant of Brassinosteroid Insensitive 1 (BRI1). Suppressors by activation tagging bri1-1D, brs1-1D and bak1-1D can recover bri1-5 phenotype. We use microarray to investigate which pathways or functional categories have been transcriptionally regulated by bri1-1D, brs1-1D and bak1-1D. Whole seedlings from wild-type (WS2), bri1-5, bri1-5/brs1-1D, bri1-5/bak1-1D, bri1-5/bri1-1D. Three biological replicates for each genotype.
2015-07-14 | E-GEOD-70843 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Brassinosteroids (BRs) are growth-promoting steroid hormones in plants. BRs affect plant growth by regulating panels of downstream genes. Much effort has been made to establish BR-regulated gene expression networks, but these published expression networks poorly overlap. To address this, here we build an optimal BR-regulated gene expression network. 7- and 24-day-old seedlings of constitutive photomorphogenesis and dwarfism (cpd) mutant and bri1-701 (brassinosteroid-insensitive 1) brl1 (BRI1-like receptor genes 1) brl3 (BRI1-like receptor genes 3) triple mutant seedlings were treated with brassinolide (BL), and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) was used to detect differentially expressed genes (DEGs). By this approach, we generated a transcriptomic database of 4498 DEGs and identified 110 transcription factors specifically respond to BR at different stage. Moreover, we found that among the identified BR-responsive transcription factors, ABSCISIC ACID-INSENSlTIVE4 (ABI4), an ethylene response factor (ERF) transcription factor, inhibits BR-regulated growth. Compared to wild-type plants, the abi4-102 mutant was less sensitive to brassinazole (BRZ) and more sensitive to BR. Next, we performed a chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq) assay and found that ABI4 directly binds to the BAK1 (BRI1 Associated receptor Kinase 1) promoter and inhibits transcription. These results provide new insights into BR-responsive gene functions in regulating plant growth at different stages and may serve as a basis for predicting gene function, selecting candidate genes, and improving the understanding of BR regulatory pathways.
2023-06-17 | GSE152690 | GEO
Project description:Abstract: Drought is the primary cause of global agricultural losses and represents a major threat to worldwide food security. Currently, plant biotechnology stands out as the most promising strategy to increase crop growth in rain-fed conditions. The main mechanisms underlying drought resistance have been uncovered by studies of plant physiology and by engineering crops with drought-resistant genes. However, plants with enhanced drought resistance usually display lower levels of growth, highlighting the need to search for novel strategies capable of uncoupling drought resistance from growth. Here, we show that the brassinosteroid family of receptors, in addition to promoting growth, guides phenotypic adaptation to a great variety of drought stress traits analyzed herein. Whilst mutations in the ubiquitously localized BRI1 receptor pathway show an enhanced drought resistance at the expense of plant growth, we found that vascular-enriched BRL3 receptors confer drought tolerance without penalizing overall growth. Systematic analyses reveal that upon drought stress the BRL3 receptor pathway triggers the synthesis and mobilization of osmoprotectant metabolites, mainly proline and sugars. This preferentially occurs in the vascular tissues of the roots and favors overall plant growth. Altogether, our results uncover a new role for the spatial control of BR signaling in drought tolerance, and offer a novel strategy to address food security issues in an increasingly water-limited climate.
2018-09-04 | GSE119382 | GEO
Project description:bri1-5 is a weak mutant of Brassinosteroid Insensitive 1 (BRI1). Suppressors by activation tagging bri1-1D, brs1-1D and bak1-1D can recover bri1-5 phenotype. We use microarray to investigate which pathways or functional categories have been transcriptionally regulated by bri1-1D, brs1-1D and bak1-1D.
2015-07-14 | GSE70843 | GEO
Project description:Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroid hormones involved in multiple processes of plant growth and development, and the adaptation to the environment. Some of the processes regulated by BRs are meristem activity and stem cell divisions. At the core of the root stem cell niche, it is placed the quiescent center (QC), that act as a cell reservoir. QC cells only trigger their divisions when need to replenish the stem cells, for example, after a DNA damage. BR signaling is in charge of triggering these QC divisions, but the exact mechanisms of how this process is regulated is still unknown. Here, we use an interdisciplinary approach, using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system, including molecular genetics, physiology and bioinformatics to decipher the role of BR receptors upon DNA damage regulating the QC divisions. The results uncover novel roles for the BR-receptor kinase BRL3 (BRI1-like 3) receptor in DNA damage response (DDR) in plants, by modulating the DNA repair and the cell-cycle progression. We identified candidate tissue-specific transcriptional regulator, specifically expressed in the QC cells, the RNR2A (RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE 2A), in charge of maintaining dNTPs (deoxynucleotide triphosphates) supply during DNA synthesis that is modulated by BRL3 downstream signaling events. Considering the importance of plant stem cells and their tissues for biomass accumulation and constantly exposed to adverse environmental stresses that can cause DNA damage or cell-cycle arrest in the RAM, here we stablished the mechanism linking root meristematic activity to the DDR through the cell-specific steroid receptor kinase BRL3.
2022-04-02 | GSE199742 | GEO
Project description:Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroid hormones involved in multiple processes of plant growth and development, and the adaptation to the environment. Some of the processes regulated by BRs are meristem activity and stem cell divisions. At the core of the root stem cell niche, it is placed the quiescent center (QC), that act as a cell reservoir. QC cells only trigger their divisions when need to replenish the stem cells, for example, after a DNA damage. BR signaling is in charge of triggering these QC divisions, but the exact mechanisms of how this process is regulated is still unknown. Here, we use an interdisciplinary approach, using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system, including molecular genetics, physiology and bioinformatics to decipher the role of BR receptors upon DNA damage regulating the QC divisions. The results uncover novel roles for the BR-receptor kinase BRL3 (BRI1-like 3) receptor in DNA damage response (DDR) in plants, by modulating the DNA repair and the cell-cycle progression. We identified candidate tissue-specific transcriptional regulator, specifically expressed in the QC cells, the RNR2A (RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE 2A), in charge of maintaining dNTPs (deoxynucleotide triphosphates) supply during DNA synthesis that is modulated by BRL3 downstream signaling events. Considering the importance of plant stem cells and their tissues for biomass accumulation and constantly exposed to adverse environmental stresses that can cause DNA damage or cell-cycle arrest in the RAM, here we stablished the mechanism linking root meristematic activity to the DDR through the cell-specific steroid receptor kinase BRL3.
2022-04-02 | GSE199741 | GEO
Project description:<p>Drought represents a major threat to food security. Mechanistic data describing plant responses to drought have been studied extensively and genes conferring drought resistance have been introduced into crop plants. However, plants with enhanced drought resistance usually display lower growth, highlighting the need for strategies to uncouple drought resistance from growth. Here, we show that overexpression of BRL3, a vascular-enriched member of the brassinosteroid receptor family, can confer drought stress tolerance in <em>Arabidopsis</em>. Whereas loss-of-function mutations in the ubiquitously expressed BRI1 receptor leads to drought resistance at the expense of growth, overexpression of BRL3 receptor confers drought tolerance without penalizing overall growth. Systematic analyses reveal that upon drought stress, increased BRL3 triggers the accumulation of osmoprotectant metabolites including proline and sugars. Transcriptomic analysis suggests that this results from differential expression of genes in the vascular tissues. Altogether, this data suggests that manipulating BRL3 expression could be used to engineer drought tolerant crops.</p>
2021-05-17 | MTBLS2289 | MetaboLights