Project description:Using the RL-SAGE method (Gowda et al. 2004), a maize leaf longSAGE library (cv. inbred line B73) was constructed. Leaf tissues were harvested from 4-week old B73 plants for RNA isolation. The conditions in the growth chamber were 12 h light (500 µmol photons m-2 sec-1), 20oC at night, 26oC in the day and 85% relative humidity. A total of 44,870 unique tags (17 bases +CATG) were identified from 232,948 individual tags in the maize leaf library.
Project description:Genotype and nitrogen-dosage effect on maize leaves collected at V8 leaf stage B73 is a model maize genotype while Illinois high protein line (IHP) is a metabolic extreme selected for higher grain protein concentration. It is a well known fact that the leaves serve as source and earshoot as a sink. Microarray analysis of V8 leaf collected from B73 and IHP genotypes grown at vairable nitrogen applications. Keywords: Genotype and N-treatment response
Project description:Background: Maize plants developed typical gray leaf spot disease (GLS) symptoms initiating at the lower leaves and progressing to upper leaves through the season. Leaf material was collected at 77 days after planting, at which stage there were a large number of GLS disease necrotic lesions on lower leaves (8% surface area on average determined by digital image analysis), but very few lesions and only at chlorotic stage on leaves above the ear (average of 0.2% lesion surface area). Method:To collect material that reflected a difference between C.zeina infected B73 leaves and control B73 leaf material, samples were collected from two lower GLS infected leaves (second and third leaf internode below ear) , and two upper leaves with minimal GLS symptoms (second and third internode above ear), respectively. The two lower leaves from each plant were pooled prior to RNA extraction, and the two upper leaves from each plant were pooled prior to RNA extraction. Upper and lower leaf samples from three maize B73 plants were subjected to RNA sequencing individually. The three maize plants were selected randomly as one plant per row from three rows of ten B73 plants each. Result: A systems genetics strategy revealed regions on the maize genome underlying co-expression of genes in susceptible and resistance responses, including a set of 100 genes common to the susceptible response of sub-tropical and temperate maize.
Project description:To gain insight into the genetic and molecular mechanisms that underlie the enhanced resistance of pan1 lines to vascular spread of P. stewartii, we used RNA-seq to compare the transcriptomes of B73 and pan1 lines one day after mock or bacterial inoculation of leaf veins, being this the first analysis of maize transcriptional responses to P. stewartii infection.
Project description:To gain insight into the genetic and molecular mechanisms that underlie the enhanced resistance of pan1 lines to vascular spread of P. stewartii, we used RNA-seq to compare the transcriptomes of B73 and pan1 lines one day after mock or bacterial inoculation of leaf veins, being this the first analysis of maize transcriptional responses to P. stewartii infection.
Project description:A water-deficit treatment was imposed on B73 inbred maize three weeks after germination by withholding water. We developed a broad-level view of water-deficit effects by determining the quantitative total leaf proteome at the reference unstressed time-point (7dWW) and the peak water-deficit stress time-point (17 dWW).
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in maize plants (standard maize line B73) in controlled conditions under continuous light. Tissues of the leaf elongation zone were sampled from plants well watered every 12 hours before and after lights on.
Project description:The first GSSM of V. vinifera was reconstructed (MODEL2408120001). Tissue-specific models for stem, leaf, and berry of the Cabernet Sauvignon cultivar were generated from the original model, through the integration of RNA-Seq data. These models have been merged into diel multi-tissue models to study the interactions between tissues at light and dark phases.