Project description:In order to reveal the candidate genes related to yellow plumage in Chinese chicken, a hybrid population of Huiyang Bearded chicken and White Leghorn chicken, and transcriptome data were generated from the yellow and white feather follicle of F3 population in two periods (7 and 11weeks) respectively, using RNA-seq. 127 common different expressed genes were obtained(DEGs) between two periods, these DEGs were mainly enriched in the Gene Ontology classes ‘developmental pigmentation’, ‘melanin biosynthetic process’, ‘melanosome organization’, ‘melanosome membrane’ and ‘melanosome’all related to the pigmentation process. And involved genes were considered as pigment genes that play important roles in melanogenesis. The results reveal key functional genes and possible molecular mechanisms for the elucidation of yellow plumage formation in Chinese indigenous chickens.
Project description:We obtained the credible target sequences by filtrating high-throughput profiling of muscle tissue in large yellow croaker.The goal of this study is to measured almost all small RNA in muscle not only at the common feeding but also during the fasting period. We set the data of microRNA as a mainspring of study. By bioinformatics analysis, all possible target binding site were compared and predicted in both known and unknown.
Project description:We analyzed the global defense responses in common tobacco against a begomovirus Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus, an invasive whitefly species Middle East-Asia Minor 1, and their co-infestation. The transcripts of defense related genes were both overlapping and divergent in response to virus and whitefly.
Project description:Drought is the prime stressors that land plants have to overcome since their dawn. One strategy that land plants employ is to limit water loss and to transport water via a vascular system, another is to produce desiccation tolerant cells and tissues. In most flowering plants, the latter strategy is limited to seeds and to some extend pollen. Common to desiccation and drought tolerance is the accumulation of small osmolytes and proteins with protective functions. Also common to both strategies is the accumulation of neutral lipids, foremost triacylglycerol (TAG), in cytosolic lipid droplets (LDs) with especially high levels being reached in embryonic tissues. Here, we investigated yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus), a monocot, perennial C4 plant. This species produces stolon-derived underground tubers that can fully desiccate and remain viable for years. Yellow nutsedge stands out, as its tubers store 25-30 % of their dry mass in lipids especially TAG, similar to seeds. We generated nanoLC-MS/MS-based proteomes in five replicates of four stages of tuber development and compared them to the proteomes of roots and leaves, yielding 2257 distinct protein groups. Our data reveal a striking upregulation of hallmark proteins of seeds in the tubers. A deeper comparison to a previously published proteome of Arabidopsis seeds and seedlings indicate that indeed a seed-like proteome was co-opted. This was further supported by an analysis of the proteome of a lipid-droplet enriched fraction of yellow nutsedge, which also displayed seed-like characteristics.