Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at controlled temperature of 26/24°C 16 h light/dark. Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation. Seeds of Medicago truncatula grown at 26/24°C 16 h light/dark were collected at different developmental stages, 8 developmental stages were analysed. Two replicates from each developmental stage were used for dye switch, each time the control was considered as the earlier developmental stage vs the treatment corresponding to the later developmental stage. For each repetition 4 hybridisation were made: 7DAP vs 9DAP, 11DAP vs 14DAP, 17DAP vs 20DAP, Abs vs DS. For each biological replicates, RNA was extracted from 50 seeds collected from 5 different plants, grown in the same conditions. One replicate per array.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at controlled temperature of 14/11°C, 16h light/dark. Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation. Seeds of Medicago truncatula grown at 14/11°C, 16h light/dark were collected at different developmental stages, 10 developmental stages were analysed. Two replicates from each developmental stage were used for dye switch, each time the control was considered as the earlier developmental stage vs the treatment, corresponding to the later developmental stage. For each repetition 5 hybridisation were made: 22DAP vs 28DAP, 34DAP vs 40DAP, 46DAP vs 52DAP, 58DAP vs 65DAP,Abs vs DS. For each biological replicates, RNA was extracted from 50 seeds collected from 5 different plants, grown in the same conditions. One replicate per array.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at controlled temperature of 21-19°C, 16h light. Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation. Seeds of Medicago truncatula grown at 21-19°C were collected at different developmental stages, 15 developmental stages were analysed. Two replicates from each developmental stage were used for dye switch, each time the control was considered as the earlier developmental stage vs the treatment, corresponding to the later developmental stage. For each repetition 8 hybridisation were made: 8DAP vs 11DAP, 14DAP vs 17DAP, 20DAP vs 23DAP, 26DAP vs 29DAP,32DAP vs 35DAP, 38DAP vs 41DAP, 44DAP vs Abs, DS (Rep1 and Rep2) vs 8DAP (Rep3 and Rep4). For each biological replicates, RNA was extracted from 50 seeds collected from 5 different plants, grown in the same conditions. One replicate per array.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at controlled temperature of 20/18°C 16 h light/dark, in osmotic stress conditions (-0.1 Mpa). Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation. Seeds of Medicago truncatula grown at 20/18°C 16 h light/dark in osmotic stress conditions of -0.1 Mpa, were collected at different developmental stages, 7 developmental stages were analysed. Two replicates from each developmental stage were used for dye switch, each time the control was considered as the earlier developmental stage vs the treatment corresponding to the later developmental stage. For each repetition 4 hybridisation were made: 12DAP vs 15DAP, 20DAP vs 25DAP, 30DAP vs Abs, DS (Rep1 and Rep2) vs 12DAP (Rep3 and Rep4). For each biological replicates, RNA was extracted from 50 seeds collected from 5 different plants, grown in the same conditions. One replicate per array.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of seeds of Medicago truncatula during maturation. To identify genes that are regulated during seed maturation in the model legume Medicago truncatula, plants at flowering stage were grown at variable light and temperature conditions under greenhouse environment (period March-June). Seeds were then collected at different stages of development. Using the Medicago NimbleGen chip, a transcriptomic analysis was performed to follow the differential expression of genes during seed maturation. Seeds of Medicago truncatula were collected at different developmental stages, 9 developmental stages were analysed. Two replicates from each developmental stage were used for dye switch, each time the control was considered as the earlier developmental stage vs the treatment corresponding to the later developmental stage. For each repetition 5 hybridisation were made: 16DAP vs 20DAP, 24DAP vs 28DAP, 32DAP vs 36DAP, 40DAP vs Abs, DS (Rep1 and Rep2) vs 16DAP (Rep3 and Rep4). For each biological replicates, RNA was extracted from 50 seeds collected from 5 different plants, grown in the same conditions. One replicate per array.
Project description:ABA regulates in plants a wide range of developmental events, mediates responses to environmental stress and is necessary to proceed through seed maturation and to acquire desiccation tolerance and dormancy. Immuno-modulation is a suitable means to study ABA functions during seed maturation. Anti-ABA single chain antibody was expressed in pea seed driving LeB4-promoter (Saalbach et al., High-level expression of a single chain Fv fragment (scFv) antibody in transgenic pea seeds J. Plant Physiol. 2001 158: 529-533), which produced only a weak phenotype with slightly decreased seed weight, globulin/albumin and total nitrogen content (aABA line 16 cultivar Erbi). In another approach with a stronger, improved USP-promoter used to express the anti-ABA antibody in pea seeds a different phenotype emerged (aABA line 7, cultivar Eifel). In this line individual seed weight increased by 20 to 30% together with higher globulin and albumin content. To dissect the aABA phenotype at the molecular level, a search for genes with differential expression patterns in transgenic plant versus wild type seeds has been performed using 6k-oligo microarray analysis. cDNA probes were prepared from RNA isolated from embryo of developing seeds of wild type (12, 18, and 22 DAP) and transgenic aABA plants (12, 18, and 22 DAP), which correspond to the transition phase of seed development, and 6k-oligo microarray.
Project description:Nitrogen application to legume seeds regulates seed metabolism and composition. In order to improve nitrogen flux into the embryo, the Vicia faba amino acid permease VfAAP1 (Miranda et al. Amino acid permeases in developing seeds of Vicia faba L.: expression precedes storage protein synthesis and is regulated by amino acid supply. Plant J 2001 28: 61-72) was expressed in pea under control of the seed-specific LeB4 promotor (Bäumlein et al. Cis-analysis of a seed protein gene promoter: the conservative RY repeat CATGCATG within legumin box is essential for tissue-specific expression of a legumin gene. Plant J 1992 2: 233-239). Several transgenic lines have been generated. Mature seeds of the homozygous marker gene-free line AAP14/10 showed an increase in amino acid supply, seed nitrogen and protein content due to higher globulin fraction. The effect of VfAAP1 was tested under field conditions in two growing periods, 2005 and 2006, and the data could be confirmed. Over-expression of VfAAP1 interferes with storage protein metabolism and alters fluxes of nitrogen during seed growth. The influence of VfAAP1 on altered gene expression in developing cotyledons was analysed using a 6k-Oligo-microarray. Four developmental stages (18, 22, 26 and 30 DAP) from seeds, grown 2006, of the transgenic line AAP14/10 were hybridized against wildtype control.
Project description:During seed growth, sugar and nitrogen compounds confer regulatory control on storage activities. Thus, seed storage production could be regulated by the supply of nutrients. In order to improve nitrogen flux into the embryo, transgenic pea lines were created where ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) from Pisum sativum has been repressed by RNAi approach in the seeds under control of the seed-specific LeB4 promotor (Bäumlein et al. Cis-analysis of a seed protein gene promoter: the conservative RY repeat CATGCATG within legumin box is essential for tissue-specific expression of a legumin gene. Plant J 1992 2: 233-239). The plastidial enzyme AGP catalyzes the reaction of glucose-1-phosphate and ATP to pyrophosphate and ADP-glucose, which is the substrate for starch synthase. The AGP activity and transcript levels were strongly decreased in three independent transgenic lines. Repression of AGP results in a wrinkled seed phenotype obviously due to transient accumulation of free sugars during maturation. Mature seeds have reduced starch content whereas the protein concentration is higher due to increased fractions of albumins and globulins. Repression of AGP interferes with storage protein metabolism and alters fluxes of nitrogen during seed growth. The influence of decreased AGP on altered gene expression in developing cotyledons was analysed using a 6k-Oligo-microarray. Ps6kOLI1 microarray hybridization were performed using three independent biological replicates of four developmental stages (20, 25, 30 and 35 DAP) from seeds of the transgenic line iAGP-3.
Project description:Genes specifically or induced in seed coat of Medicago truncatula 10-36 days after pollination were identified by comparing with genes expressed in other organs.
Project description:This experiment investigates a time series of seed development in Medicago truncatula. Time points 14, 16, 20, 24, and 36 days post pollination are hybridized against a 12 days post pollination reference stage.