Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play crucial roles in regulating the expression of various stress responses genes in plant. To investigate soybean (Glycine max) miRNAs involved in the response to cadmium (Cd), microarrays containing 953 unique miRNA probes were employed to identify differences in the expression patterns of the miRNA between different genotypes, Huaxia3 (HX3, Cd-tolerant) and Zhonghuang24 (ZH24, Cd-sensitive). A total of 26 Cd-responsive miRNAs were identified, of which nine were detected in both cultivars, while five were expressed only in HX3 and 12 were only in ZH24.
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play crucial roles in regulating the expression of various stress responses genes in plant. To investigate soybean (Glycine max) miRNAs involved in the response to cadmium (Cd), microarrays containing 953 unique miRNA probes were employed to identify differences in the expression patterns of the miRNA between different genotypes, Huaxia3 (HX3, Cd-tolerant) and Zhonghuang24 (ZH24, Cd-sensitive). A total of 26 Cd-responsive miRNAs were identified, of which nine were detected in both cultivars, while five were expressed only in HX3 and 12 were only in ZH24. In the study presented here, four root samples from two contrast soybean cultivars, HX3 (Cd-tolerant) and ZH24 (Cd-sensitive), with or without (Cd) cadmium, harvested at 6, 12, 24, 48, 96 and 144 h after the initiation of Cd treatment, was used to acquire expression profiles of a total of 953 unique genes, leading to the successful construction of supervised.
Project description:Verbena bonariensis is a species with excellent garden plant, good environmental adaptability and great potential for future development.Cadmium has caused serious heavy metal pollution in the soil, which has posed a great threat to plant growth. In this study, Illumina sequencing technology was used to sequence the transcriptome of Verbena bonariensis leaf under normal and Cd stress, respectively. In total, 95,013 transcripts and 63021 genes with an average length of 923 bp and 1,246 bp were constructed from the clean sequence reads, respectively. And 1037 DEGs were found in response to cadmium treatment, of which 10 were selected for qRT-PCR. In conclusion, this study first identified the Verbena bonariensis as a heavy metal tolerant plant and provided the first large-scale transcriptional data set in response to cadmium stress. Our research will help to understand the mechanism of resistance to Cd in the Verbena bonariensis and provide clues for further studies on the relationships between plants and heavy metals in other Verbenaceae plants.
2018-01-18 | GSE101600 | GEO
Project description:Se-Cd plant
| PRJNA1309254 | ENA
Project description:Bioremediation of cadmium (Cd) polluted soil using Cd-tolerant fungus
Project description:Plant growth is severely affected by toxic concentrations of the non-essential heavy metal cadmium (Cd). Comprehensive transcriptome analysis by RNA-Seq following cadmium exposure is required to further understand plant responses to Cd and facilitate future systems-based analyses of the underlying regulatory networks. In this study, rice plants were hydroponically treated with 50 µM Cd for 24 hours. In total, ~60,000 transcripts, including transcripts that could not be characterized by microarray-based approaches, were evaluated and ~36,000 transcripts were responsive to Cd exposure. Among multigenic families that may protect cells from generated ROS and reduce Cd toxicity, prominently upregulated antioxidant enzyme genes were identified. Furthermore, 168 different metal ion transporter genes, which might mediate the transport of transition Cd, responded to Cd exposure. qRT-PCR analysis of randomly selected genes indicated that their expression changed obviously after exposure to various heavy metal stresses. The Cd responsive genes included many abiotic stress (drought, high-salinity, low temperature) responsive genes. Based on further investigation into the expression patterns of abiotic stress regulatory genes such as DREB, part of the signal transduction pathway for Cd exposure was determined to cross-talk with abiotic stress signaling pathways. Our results provide useful information for further studies of the molecular mechanisms of plant adaptation to Cd exposure and the improvement of Cd tolerance in crop species.
Project description:Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic and carcinogenic pollutant that poses a threat to human and animal health by affecting several major organ systems. Urbanization and human activities have led to significant increases in Cd concentration in the environment, including in agroecosystems. To protect against the harmful effects of Cd, efforts are being made to promote safe crop production and to clean up Cd-contaminated agricultural lands and water, reducing Cd exposure through the consumption of contaminated agricultural products. There is a need for management strategies that can improve plant Cd tolerance and reduce Cd accumulation in crop plant tissues, all of which involve understanding the impacts of Cd on plant physiology and metabolism. Grafting, a longstanding plant propagation technique, has been shown to be a useful approach for studying the effects of Cd on plants, including insights into the signaling between organs and organ-specific modulation of plant performance under this form of environmental stress. In this review, we aim to highlight the current state of knowledge on the use of grafting to gain insights into Cd-induced effects as well as its potential applicability in safe crop production and phytoremediation. In particular, we emphasize the utility of heterograft systems for assessment of Cd accumulation, biochemical and molecular responses, and tolerance in crop and other plant species under Cd exposure, as well as potential intergenerational effects. We outline our perspectives and future directions for research in this area and the potential practical applicability of plant grafting, with attention to the most obvious gaps in knowledge. We aim at inspiring researchers to explore the potential of grafting for modulating Cd tolerance and accumulation and for understanding the mechanisms of Cd-induced responses in plants for both agricultural safety and phytoremediation purposes. Finally, it is important to bear in mind that although we have address Cd in this review, the idea can be applied to the large majority of abiotic and biotic stressors.
Project description:In plant pathogenic fungi, conditionally dispensable (CD) chromosomes are often associated with virulence, but not viability. Such virulence-associated CD chromosomes carry genes encoding effectors and/or host-specific toxin biosynthesis enzymes, potentially important for determining host specificity. Fusarium oxysporum causes devastating diseases of more than 100 plant species. In particular, F. oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans (Focn) can infect Brassicaceae plants including Arabidopsis and cabbage. Here we show that Focn has multiple CD chromosomes involving in not only virulence but also vegetative growth, which is an atypical feature of known CD chromosomes. Among them, we identified specific CD chromosomes that are required for virulence to either Arabidopsis, cabbage, or both. We revealed that a pair of effectors encoded in one of the CD chromosomes is required for suppression of the Arabidopsis-specific phytoalexin-based immunity. The effector pair is highly conserved in F. oxysporum isolates capable of infecting Arabidopsis. This study provides insights into how host specificity of F. oxysporum is determined by a pair of effector genes on a CD chromosome.
Project description:Sedum plumbizincicola is an herbaceous species tolerant of excessive cadmium accumulation in above-ground tissues. The implications of membrane proteins, especially integrative membrane proteins such as transporters, in Cd detoxification in plants have received attention in recent years, but a comprehensive profiling of Cd-responsive membrane proteins from Cd hyperaccumulator plants is lacking. In this study, the membrane proteins of root, stem, and leaf tissues of S. plumbizincicola seedlings treated with Cd solution for 0, 1 or 3 days were analyzed by Tandem Mass Tag (TMT) labeling-based proteome quantification. Total 3353 proteins with predicted transmembrane helices were identified and quantified in at least one tissue group
Project description:Sprobolus virginicus is a halophytic C4 grass found in worldwide from tropical to warm temperate regions. A Japanese genotype showed a salinity tolerance up to 1,500 mM NaCl, a three-fold higher concentration than seawater salinity. To identify key genes involved in the regulation of salt tolerance in S. virginicus, random cDNA libraries were constructed from salt-treated leaves, and were introduced into Arabidopsis for salt tolerant plant screening. Eight independent transgenic lines were found to be more salt tolerant than wild type from the screen of 3011 lines on the medium containing 175 mM NaCl. Among the selected lines, two contained cDNAs encoding glycine-rich RNA-binding proteins (GRPs). To identify transcriptomic change in the GRP-transgenic line, we performed microarray analysis of the transgenic line and WTunder salt stress.