Project description:Drought is one of the most detrimental environmental factors that adversely affect crop production, thus jeopardizing food supplies for a growing world population. Over the past years, it has become evident that microorganisms associated with plants can enhance drought tolerance. However, the specific genetic and molecular mechanisms underpinning bacterial induction of drought tolerance in plants are still largely unknown. In our work, we have shown that a root endophytic Flavobacterium sp. 98 confers significant drought tolerance to Arabidopsis thaliana without compromising growth and yield. Here, we compared the transcriptome of Arabidopsis seedlings inoculated with Flavobacterium or mock (time series) to identify transcription reprograming induced by Flavo in plants.
Project description:To verify genes that are directly regulated by BysR, we used DNA affinity purification sequencing analysis (DAP-seq) for genome-wide recognition of BysR binding sites in vitro. The HALO-fusion BysR protein was successfully expressed and purified. After affinity purification and sequencing, at least 22 million double-end reads per sample were generated and with > 99 % of reads uniquely mapped to the JP2-270 genome. A total of 470 enriched common peaks of two replicates with –log10(P-value) ≥ 2 were called . The mean width of DAP-seq peaks was < 1,000. In total, 367 (78%) of these peaks were found to locate in the -1 kbp to 1 kbp regions by the analysis of peak summit positions relative to the start codons of JP2-270 open reading frames.