Project description:The study investigated the impact of environment on the composition of the gut microbiota and mucosal immune development and function at gut surfaces in early and adult life. Piglets of similar genotype were reared in indoor and outdoor environments and in an experimental isolator facility. Mucosa-adherent microbial diversity in the pig ileum was characterized by sequence analysis of 16S rRNA gene libraries. Host-specific gene responses in gut ileal tissues to differences in microbial composition were investigated using Affymetrix microarray technology and Real-time PCR. Experiment Overall Design: Animals were reared on the sow at an outdoor or indoor facility. Additional piglets from the indoor facility were transferred to individual isolator units at 24 hours of age, and given a daily dose of antibiotic cocktail for the duration of the study. Piglets were weaned at day 28. From day 29 onwards, piglets were fed creep feed ad libitum. Ileal tissue samples were excised from N=6 piglets per group at day 5, 28 and 56.
Project description:The aim of this study was to examine the transcriptional changes that govern the primary nitrogen (N) limitation response in roots and the long-term effect of N limitation in the basal nodes, which may be associated with tiller suppression by N supply. The effect of biostimulant application on N limitation response was also examined by including plant treated and untreated with microalgae extract-based biostimulant. For this purpose, RNA-seq was conducted in roots of 15 days-old hydroponically grown wheat plants (treated and untreated with biostimulants) 24 h after the introduction of the plants to the N limitation and in basal nodes of 32 days-old wheat plants (treated and untreated with biostimulants) exposed to N limitation for 18 days. The two different N treatments were: High N (10 mM N) and Low N (0.1 mM N). In total, three biological replicates were included per treatment. RNA-seq was conducted in total RNA extracted from 3 basal node samples pooled together per biological replicate. In this study, the basal node is defined as the 0.5 cm of the main shoot base, which includes the apical meristem, lateral buds, leaf meristems etc.
