Project description:The role of on-CG methylation in seed development and dormancy remains unknown. There are four genes in charge of non-CG methylation in Arabidopsis: drm1, drm2, cmt2 and cmt3. The majority of non-CG methylation in vegetative tissues, leaf, is gone in homozygous ddcc mutant line (Hume et al., 2014). To uncover the possible role of non-CG DNA methylation in seed development and dormancy, we characterized the methylome of ddcc mutant in Arabidopsis dry seed using Illumina sequencing. Meanwhile, vegetative tissue, leaves from 3 week plant with ddcc mutant and from wild type, and dry seed from wild type plant were used as control. Illumina sequencing of bisulfite-converted genomic DNA from dry seed and 3-week-plant leaves of ddcc mutant and wild type.
Project description:Purpose: The goal of this study is to evaluate transcriptional regulation of the accumulation of phenols and anthocyanins in young leaves of subtropical forest tree species by using NGS-derived RNA-seq. Methods: Leaf mRNA profiles of subtropical tree Schima superba and Cryptocarya concinna grown under contasting light were generated by deep sequencing, in triplicate, using Illumina. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed at the transcript isoform level with TopHat followed by Cufflinks. FPKM produced by RSEM are provided. Results: Assemblies of the sequence data yielded 61,618 and 64,413 unigenes for Schima superba and Cryptocarya concinna,respectively. Overall,75.14% and 66.46% of the unigenes were annotated in the protein database Nonredundant protein (Nr), Nonredundant nucleotide (Nt), Swiss-Prot、Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), Cluster of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COG) and Gene Ontology (GO) for S. superba and C concinna,respectively.A total of 3896, 3488 and 266 genes were differentially expressed in full light-exposed young leaf (FLY), low light-exposed young leaf (LYL) and low light-exposed mature leaf (LML) relative to low light-exposed mature leaf (FML) of S. superba, respectively, and 2097, 2047 and 211 genes were differentially expressed in the corresponding leaves of C. concinna. Conclusions: Our study represents the first detailed analysis of transcriptomes in young and mature leaves of dorminant trees from a subtropical forest in China, with biologic replicates, generated by RNA-seq technology. Photosynthesis-related genes and phenol pathways-related genes were extensively down- and up-regulated in young versus mature leaves of the two species.
Project description:In this study, we aim to present a global view of transcriptome dynamics during seed development in a large-seeded chickpea (genotype JGK3). We generated about 1.5 billion high-quality reads from 24 libraries (leaf and seven seed developmental stages in three biological replicates) using Illumina high-throughput sequencing platform. We mapped the reads to the kabuli chickpea genome for estimation of their transcript abundance in different tissue samples. The transcriptome dynamics was studied by differential gene expression analyses between different samples/stages.