Project description:Autotetraploid carries several phenotypic changes with larger leaves and fruit compared to diploid. To analysis of phenotypic changes in mulberry autotetraploids on the transcriptome, we performed RNA-Seq analyses on mulberry leaf samples of diploid and autotetraploids using Illumina HiSEq 2000.
Project description:Mulberry (Morus atropurpurea) is an important economic woody tree with rapid growth rate and large biomass, which had great potential for heavy metals remediation. To further understand the mechanisms involved in cadmium accumulation and detoxification in mulberry, we carried out a transcriptomic study to get insights into the molecular mechanisms of the mulberry response to cadmium stress using RNA-seq analysis with BGISEQ-500.
Project description:Ciboria carunculoides is a major fungal pathogen that infect of mulberry fruit causing popcorn disease leading extensive damage and productivity loss. In spite of such a major impact, mulberry fruit response to C. carunculoides infection is yet to be witnessed. We carried out a transcriptomic study to get insights into the molecular mechanisms and dynamics of the mulberry fruit response to the C. carunculoides infection using RNA-seq analysis with Illumina HiSeq 2000.
Project description:To investigate effects of intake of mulberry leaf extracts on hypercholesterolemia, we performed gene expression profiling on rat liver by microarray analysis. Microarray analysis revealed that mulberry leaf extracts up-regulated the gene expression involved in suppression of cholesterol synthesis and stimulation of innate-adaptive Immunity. Mice were fed a high-cholesterol diet without/with orally administration of mulberry leaf extracts for 4 weeks. Livers were taken for RNA extraction and hybridization on Agilent microarrays.
Project description:To investigate effects of intake of mulberry leaf extracts on hypercholesterolemia, we performed gene expression profiling on rat liver by microarray analysis. Microarray analysis revealed that mulberry leaf extracts up-regulated the gene expression involved in suppression of cholesterol synthesis and stimulation of innate-adaptive Immunity.
Project description:BackgroundTo gain a better understanding of anthocyanin biosynthesis in mulberry fruit, we analyzed the transcriptome of the mulberry varieties Da 10 (Morus atropurpurea Roxb., black fruit) and Baisang (Morus alba L., white fruit).ResultsWe found that whereas Da 10 had high levels of cyanidin 3-O-glucoside (Cy), and pelargonidin 3-O-glucoside (Pg), Baisang contained only Cy, at low levels. Based on a comparative transcriptome analysis, we annotated more than 27,085 genes (including 1735 new genes). Genes that were differentially expressed between Da 10 and Baisang were detected at three stages of fruit development: S1 [4256 genes, 10?days post-anthesis (DPA)], S2 (5612 genes, 19 DPA), and S3 (5226 genes, 28 DPA). Anthocyanin biosynthesis was found to be associated with the expression of 15 core genes and 5 transcription factors. Relative to Baisang, Da 10 showed a significant upregulation of genes involved in the early stages (production of the intermediate compounds chalcone and dihydroflavonol) and late stages (production of Cy and Pg) of anthocyanin biosynthesis. Baisang showed a significant downregulation of the genes involved in the early stages of anthocyanin biosynthesis and overexpression of flavanone 3-hydroxylase (FLS), resulting in the generation of quercetin and/or myricetin but not anthocyanins.ConclusionsThe biosynthesis of anthocyanin in mulberry fruit is initiated from the precursor, phenylalanine, and mediated by the upregulation of dihydroflavonol 4-reductase, anthocyanidin synthase, anthocyanidin 3-O-glucosyltransferase, and cyanidin-3-O-glucoside 2-O-glucuronosyltransferase, and downregulation of FLS to produce Cy and Pg.
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous non-coding small RNAs containing 21-24 nucleotides, and play an important function in the course of stand up to adversity. Identification of miRNA target mRNAs is essential for their functional analysis. In order to anatomize miRNA guided gene regulation under drought stress, we performed a transcriptome-wide experimental method using high throughput degradome sequencing to directly detect drought stress responsive miRNA targets in mulberry. In this study, drought library (DL) and contrast library (CL) which captured the cleaved mRNA were constructed from mulberry for sequencing by Illumina sequencer, and 409, 373 target genes for 30 conserved miRNA families and 990, 950 target genes for 199, 195 novel miRNAs were identified in CL and DL, respectively. Among those conserved miRNA families in DL, mno-miR156, mno-miR172 and mno-miR396 refer to the highest number of targets, indicating that mno-miR156, mno-miR172 and mno-miR396 families and their target genes might play a key important function in corresponding to drought stress in mulberry. By construction and analysis of miRNA-target network, we found that the DL independent networks consist of 838 miRNA-mRNA pairs (63.34%). Besides, the expression patterns of 11 target genes and 12 correspondent miRNAs were compared and analyzed by qRT-PCR. In addition, 5 of 6 miRNA targets were further verified by RNA ligase-mediated 5’ rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RLM-5’ RACE). Gene ontology (GO) annotations and Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis showed that these target transcripts were implicated in a broad range of biological processes and various metabolic pathways. The characterization of target genes and the associated miRNAs in response to drought exposure provides a framework for understanding the molecular mechanism of resistance to drought in plants.