Project description:We report the transcriptome profile of different cultivars of Fusarium graminearum-infected wheat grains, aiming to search for some different expression genes and pathways to reveal the difference between wheat cultivars.
Project description:The goals of this study are to compare transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) between two wheat cultivars with different antioxidant actvity and to clarify the differences of these two wheat cultivars.
Project description:Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most valuable cereal crops for the human consumption. Its grain storage proteins greatly impact bread quality, though may cause food intolerances or allergies in susceptible individuals. Consequently, the investigation of a proteome polymorphism among wheat varieties is important to spot the genotypes, which would be promising donors for the breeding of hypoallergenic cereals. Herein, we discovered diversity of grain proteins in three Ukrainian wheat cultivars: ‘Sotnytsia’, ‘Panna’ (both modern selection) and ‘Ukrainka’ (old landrace). Firstly, proteins were isolated with a SDS-containing buffer that allowed extraction of various groups of storage proteins (glutenins, gliadins, globulins and albumins). Secondly, the proteome was profiled by the two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, revealing 810 clearly-separated gel spots. Software-assisted analysis of gel images, showed 66 differentially abundant proteins. Using multi-enzymatic digestion, followed by the tandem mass spectrometry, we identified 49 differentially accumulated proteins. Parallel ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography profiling and direct mass spectrometry quantification complemented the results. With this approach we quantified 127 proteins, 12 being differentially abundant. Principal component analysis confirmed genotype as a major source of variation in both cases. Non-gluten fraction was the most diverse among investigated bread wheat cultivars. Information from public databases of clinically relevant plant proteins highlighted variable groups of wheat allergens/toxins. Data suggested that one of the modern cultivars contained less health affecting proteins in grain. Finally, we proposed set of genetic landmarks for the development of DNA marker system, which will enable fast and efficient assessment of medical safety of multiple wheat genotypes to facilitate breeding programs.
Project description:Water deficit stress between the booting and grain filling stages significantly affect grain yield and quality of hard red winter wheat. Several stress tolerant cultivars with different adaptation mechanisms have been released and are widely cultivated on the Southern Great Plains of the US. However, the physiological, molecular, and genetic basis of adaptation to drought stress for these cultivars remains unknown. Use of transcriptome profiling to identify drought responsive genes in hexaploid wheat is a challenging process given the quantitative nature of drought stress, genome complexity, and the intricacy of interaction effects. If the information generated from functional genomics studies is to be used in molecular breeding programs for cultivar development, it is highly desirable to use cultivars better adapted for the region. In the current study we used two well-adapted, drought-tolerant, high-yielding, cultivated varieties, TAM 111 and TAM 112, which appear to have different adaptation mechanisms, to identify drought stress induced transcripts during heading and early dough stages. A set of 24 Affymetrix GeneChip wheat genome arrays (2 cultivars; 2 water treatments; 2 sampling stages; 3 biological replicates) from plants subjected to water deficit stress under controlled glasshouse conditions. Differentially expressed genes were identified using a ANOVA (p<0.01) controlling false discovery rate (FDR, q<0.01) using Benjamini Hochberg approach.
Project description:To identify genes involved in susceptibility, genechip hybridization experiments were performed in order to examine genes differentially expressed upon inoculation of resistant and susceptible wheat cultivars with powdery mildew. Some genes were identified which were just expressed in the susceptible host both after mock-inoculation and pathogen infection. Also, a total of 2693 transcripts were differentially expressed (fold change≥2) in Yumai 13 in response to powdery mildew as compared to itself, comprising 1464 and 1229 up- and down-regulated genes respectively. Seven-day-old wheat seedlings of susceptible cultivar Yumai 13, two resistant cultivars HY and CYC were inoculated with powdery mildew and harvested at 0, 24, 48 hpi for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. We sought to screen some genes which have very high expression in Yumai 13, but not in CYC and HY by pairwise comparation.
Project description:To identify genes involved in susceptibility, genechip hybridization experiments were performed in order to examine genes differentially expressed upon inoculation of resistant and susceptible wheat cultivars with powdery mildew. Some genes were identified which were just expressed in the susceptible host both after mock-inoculation and pathogen infection. Also, a total of 2693 transcripts were differentially expressed (fold change≥2) in Yumai 13 in response to powdery mildew as compared to itself, comprising 1464 and 1229 up- and down-regulated genes respectively.
Project description:Different wheat cultivars may be classified as either winter or spring varieties depending on whether they require exposure to an extended period of cold in order to become competent to flower. Using a growth regime that mimics the conditions that occur during a typical winter in Britain, we wished to survey the genes that are involved in phase transition as well as those involved in cold-acclimation. Keywords: Time course
Project description:Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) and Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV) are type members of Tritimovirus and Poacevirus genera, respectively, in the family Potyviridae, and are transmitted by wheat curl mites. Co-infection of these two viruses causes synergistic interaction with increased virus accumulation and disease severity in wheat. In this study, we examined the effects of synergistic interaction between WSMV and TriMV on endogenous small (s) RNAs and virus-specific small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) in susceptible (Arapahoe) and temperature-sensitive resistant (Mace) wheat cultivars at 27ºC and 18ºC. Single- and double-infections in wheat caused a shift in the profile of endogenous sRNAs from 24 nt being the most predominant in healthy plants to 21 nt in infected wheat. Additionally, we report high-resolution vsiRNA maps of WSMV and TriMV in singly- and doubly-infected wheat cultivars Arapahoe and Mace at 18ºC and 27ºC. Massive amounts of 21 and 22 nt vsiRNA reads were accumulated in Arapahoe at both temperatures and in Mace at 27ºC but not at 18ºC. The plus- and minus-sense vsiRNAs were distributed throughout the genomic RNAs in Arapahoe at both temperature regimens and in Mace at 27ºC, although some regions of genomic RNAs serve as hot-spots with an excessive number of vsiRNAs. The positions of vsiRNA peaks were conserved among wheat cultivars Arapahoe and Mace, suggesting that Dicer-like enzymes of susceptible and resistant wheat cultivars are similarly accessed the genomic RNAs of WSMV and TriMV. Additionally, several cold-spot regions were found in the genomes of TriMV and WSMV with no or a few vsiRNAs, indicating that certain regions of WSMV and TriMV genomes are not accessible to Dicer-like enzymes. The high-resolution map of endogenous and vsiRNAs from wheat cultivars synergistically infected with WSMV and TriMV at two temperature regimens form a foundation for understanding the virus-host interactions, effect of synergistic interactions on host defense mechanisms, and virus resistance mechanisms in wheat.
Project description:Wheat is a cereal grain and one of the world’s major food crops. Recent advances in wheat genome sequencing are by now facilitating genomic and proteomic analyses of this crop. However, little is known about the protein levels of hexaploid versus tetraploid wheat cultivars, and knowledge on phosphorylated proteins still limited. Using our recently established (phospho)proteomic workflow, we performed a parallel analysis of the proteome and phosphoproteome on seedling leaves from two hexaploid wheat cultivars (Pavon 76 and USU-Apogee) and a tetraploid wheat (Senatore Cappelli). This revealed that a large portion of proteins and phosphosites can be quantified in all cultivars. Our shotgun proteomics data revealed a high similarity between hexaploid and tetraploid varieties with respect to protein abundance. However, we could identify a set of proteins that were differentially abundant between hexaploid and tetraploid cultivars. In addition, already at seedling stage, a small set of proteins were differential between the small (USU-Apogee) and larger hexaploid wheat cultivar (Pavon 76), which could potentially act as growth predictors. Finally, the phosphosites identified in this study can be retrieved from the in-house developed plant PTM-Viewer (bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/ptm_viewer/), making this the first repository for phosphorylated wheat proteins. This paves the way for further in depth, quantitative (phospho)proteome-wide differential analyses upon a specific trigger or environmental change.