Project description:Sinonovacula constricta is an economically important bivalve species in China, Korea and Japan. It widely resides in estuarine and coastal areas where salinity fluctuates rapidly. However, little is known about its adaptation mechanisms to acute salt stresses. To address this, we establish nine cDNA libraries (triplicate each treatment) from juvenile S. constricta, which were subjected to low salinity (5 psu), optimal salinity (15 psu, the control) and high salinity (25 psu) for 6 h, respectively. Illumina sequencing generated 478,587,310 clean reads totally, which were assembled into 427,057 transcripts of 246,672 unigenes. Compared with the control, 1259 and 2163 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified under acute low and high salt stresses, respectively. GO and KEGG enrichment analyses of DEGs suggested that several key metabolic modulations were mainly responsible for the acute salt stresses. Based on the significantly highlighted KEGG pathways, some key DEGs were identified and discussed in details, including cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase, alanine transaminase, glutamine synthetase, glutamate dehydrogenase, nitric-oxide synthase, arginase, betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase, serine racemase, L-serine ammonia-lyase, phosphoserine phosphatase, glutamate 5-kinase, glutamate-5-semialdehyde dehydrogenase, ornithine-oxo-acid transaminase, ornithine decarboxylase, stearoyl-CoA desaturase, carnitine O-palmitoyltransferase 1, serine/threonine-protein kinase, NF-kappa-B, NF-kappa-B inhibitor alpha, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase and carbohydrate response element binding protein. Furthermore, some potential osmolytes were speculated. In summary, this study would not only provide insights into the adaptation mechanisms to acute salt stresses in juvenile S. constricta, but also facilitate to better understand the physical and biochemical performances of this bivalve species involved in acute salt stresses. Moreover, the transcriptome data obtained here greatly enriched the genetic information of S. constricta, which would be valuable for promoting its molecular biology researches.
2018-09-03 | GSE112303 | GEO
Project description:Prunus mongolica is a relict xerophytic shrub with ecological importance for desert ecosystem stability and vegetation restoration in arid and semi-arid regions. However, the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying its responses to combined alkali-salt and cadmium stress remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the regulatory role of exogenous gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in improving stress tolerance in Prunus mongolica under alkali-salt stress, cadmium stress, and their combined stress. Seedlings were subjected to eight treatments, including control, GABA alone, alkali-salt stress, cadmium stress, combined alkali-salt and cadmium stress, and the corresponding GABA-treated stress groups. Germination traits, seedling growth, physiological indices, antioxidant responses, osmotic adjustment, photosynthetic pigments, and transcriptomic profiles were analyzed to evaluate the effects of GABA at multiple biological levels. Alkali-salt, cadmium, and combined alkali-salt and cadmium stress markedly inhibited seed germination and seedling growth, with the combined stress causing the most severe damage. Stress treatments promoted reactive oxygen species accumulation, lipid peroxidation, photosynthetic inhibition, and reductions in water status and root activity. Exogenous GABA alleviated these stress-induced effects by improving germination performance, seedling growth, chlorophyll accumulation, root activity, and relative water content, while reducing oxidative damage. GABA also enhanced osmotic adjustment by increasing proline and soluble sugar contents and strengthened antioxidant defense through the activation of superoxide dismutase, peroxidase, catalase, ascorbate peroxidase, and glutathione reductase. Transcriptome analysis showed that GABA modulated stress-responsive genes associated with MAPK signaling, plant hormone signal transduction, plant-pathogen interaction, peroxisome, glutathione metabolism, photosynthesis, carbon metabolism, and other primary metabolic processes. These results suggest that exogenous GABA enhances stress tolerance in Prunus mongolica by coordinating redox homeostasis, osmotic regulation, stress signaling, photosynthetic recovery, and metabolic reprogramming under single and combined alkali-salt and cadmium stresses.
2026-07-03 | GSE337475 | GEO