Project description:RNA-seq analysis of developmental stages from the filamenous ascomycete Sordaria macrospora. Using laser capture microdissection, we separated protoperithecia (young fruiting bodies) from the surrounding hyphae. RNA isolation and amplification from 150 protoperithecia yields enough material for RNA-seq analysis. The resulting data were compared to RNA-seq data from whole mycelial exctracts (total vegetative and total sexual mycelium) to characterize the genome-wide spatial distribution of gene expression during sexual development. We analyzed total vegetative mycelium, total sexual mycelium, and protoperithecia from the wild type as well as protoperithecia from the sterile mutant pro1. Additionally, we used the RNA-seq information to improve the predicted S. macrospora gene models, and annotated UTRs for more than 50 % of the genes.
Project description:Full transcriptomes of the Botrytis cinerea wild-type strain B0510, cultured in liquid medium or on cellophane sheets placed on PDB 1/4-agar plates, were compared to identify genes differentially expressed when infection cushions are formed from vegetative mycelium.
Project description:Enlargement and doming of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) is a hallmark of the transition from vegetative growth to flowering. While this change is widespread, its role in the flowering process is unknown. The late termination (ltm) tomato mutant shows severely delayed flowering and precocious doming of the vegetative SAM. LTM encodes a kelch domain-containing protein, with no link to known meristem maintenance or flowering time pathways. LTM interacts with the TOPLESS (TPL) corepressor and with several transcription factors, providing specificity for its repressive functions. A sub-group of flowering-associated genes are precociously upregulated in vegetative stages of ltm SAMs, among them, the antiflorigen gene SELF PRUNING (SP). A mutation in SP restored the structure of vegetative SAMs in ltm sp double mutants and late flowering was partially suppressed, suggesting LTM functions to suppress SP in the vegetative SAM. In agreement, SP-overexpressing wild type plants exhibited precocious doming of vegetative SAMs combined with late flowering, as found in ltm plants. Strong flowering signals can result in termination of the SAM, usually by its differentiation into a flower. We propose that activation of a floral antagonist that promotes SAM growth in concert with floral transition protects it from such terminating effects.
Project description:Enlargement and doming of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) is a hallmark of the transition from vegetative growth to flowering. While this change is widespread, its role in the flowering process is unknown. The late termination (ltm) tomato mutant shows severely delayed flowering and precocious doming of the vegetative SAM. LTM encodes a kelch domain-containing protein, with no link to known meristem maintenance or flowering time pathways. LTM interacts with the TOPLESS (TPL) corepressor and with several transcription factors, providing specificity for its repressive functions. A sub-group of flowering-associated genes are precociously upregulated in vegetative stages of ltm SAMs, among them, the antiflorigen gene SELF PRUNING (SP). A mutation in SP restored the structure of vegetative SAMs in ltm sp double mutants and late flowering was partially suppressed, suggesting LTM functions to suppress SP in the vegetative SAM. In agreement, SP-overexpressing wild type plants exhibited precocious doming of vegetative SAMs combined with late flowering, as found in ltm plants. Strong flowering signals can result in termination of the SAM, usually by its differentiation into a flower. We propose that activation of a floral antagonist that promotes SAM growth in concert with floral transition protects it from such terminating effects.
Project description:RNA-seq analysis of developmental stages from the filamenous ascomycete Sordaria macrospora. Using laser capture microdissection, we separated protoperithecia (young fruiting bodies) from the surrounding hyphae. RNA isolation and amplification from 150 protoperithecia yields enough material for RNA-seq analysis. The resulting data were compared to RNA-seq data from whole mycelial exctracts (total vegetative and total sexual mycelium) to characterize the genome-wide spatial distribution of gene expression during sexual development. We analyzed total vegetative mycelium, total sexual mycelium, and protoperithecia from the wild type as well as protoperithecia from the sterile mutant pro1. Additionally, we used the RNA-seq information to improve the predicted S. macrospora gene models, and annotated UTRs for more than 50 % of the genes. 8 samples were sequenced (2 independent biological replicates for the four conditions "wt sex: SM2, SM7", "wt veg: SM1, SM6", "wt proto: SM4, SM5", "pro1 proto: SM8, SM9", each on one Illumina/Solexa lane (GAII or HiSeq, single reads of 36 or 100 bases))
Project description:Gene expression profiling was performed to compare RNA abundances in mycelium of Puf knockout strains compared to that in mycelium of wild-type N. crassa
Project description:In order to study changes in gene expression during mushroom development in Schizophyllum commune, genome wide gene expression was analysed in 4 developmental stages: vegetative mycelium, stage I aggregates, stage II primordia and mature mushrooms 4 samples: - vegetative mycelium - stage I aggregates - stage II primordia - mature mushrooms RNA was obtained from 3 biological replicates and pooled
Project description:The quantitative proteomes of leaf tissue from A. thaliana at 4 weeks and 5 weeks of growth using tandem mass spectrometry with label-free quantification. A comparison of three genotypes has been performed, namely i) the Col-0 wild type ecotype, ii) a T-DNA insertion mutant disrupting the plastoglobule-localized ABC1K6 protein (abc1k6-1) that is delayed in transition to reproductive growth, and iii) a complementation line (Comp3) that restores the timely progression of development with the ABC1K6 wild-type protein sequence tagged C-terminally with GFP in the abc1k6-1 background. Whereas wild-type and abc1k6-1 remain in the vegetative growth stage at 4 weeks of age, the wild-type plants have transitioned to reproductive growth (as evidenced by the emergence of the infloresence bolt) by 5 weeks of age, while abc1k6-1 remians in vegetative growth. Our proteomics experiment seeks to identify leaf proteome differences prior to wild-type transition to reproductive growth that may account for the delayed transition in the abc1k6-1 mutant.