Project description:Potentilla indica and Melastoma dodecandrum lour are medicinal herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. We sampled the plants from Nanyang Technological University's herb garden for transcriptomics analysis.
Project description:Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, a perennial herb, is an important medicinal plant that possesses broad pharmacological actions and contains flavonoids with good bioactivities such as anti-inflammation, anti-bacteria and anti-tumor. However, little is known on the molecular processes responsible for the medical properties of this species, owing to the absence of genomic resources such as available sequences of key enzyme genes in biosynthetic pathways. In this study, the RNA sequencing data of S. baicalensis were first generated and used for transcriptome analysis.
Project description:To assess the influences of a crude medicinal herb extract (MHE) on the immune composition and function in inguinal white adipose tissue (iWAT), we isolated iWAT stromal vascular fractions (SVFs) from control (PBS) and MHE-treated mice and performed RNA-seq analysis. iWAT SVF of mice treated with MHE was defined as the treatment group. Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) treatment was used as the control group. Then RNA-Seq experiment was performed by OE Biotech Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China) to analyze gene expression changes in iWAT SVF.
Project description:The annual cleistogamous herb Cardamine kokaiensis is an endemic plant along the Kokai River in Japan. We examined the differences in gene expression patterns among cleistogamous (CL), intermediate (INT), and chasmogamous (CH) flower by cross-species microarray analysis using an Arabidopsis thaliana Affymetrix high-density oligonucleotide microarray (GeneChip ATH1). We then discuss the molecular basis of the evolution of cleistogamy. Our results help to clarify the molecular basis of the evolution of plant mating systems that depend on environmental conditions. Keywords: flower type comparison
2008-05-27 | GSE9799 | GEO
Project description:The complete chloroplast genome of the medicinal herb Veronicastrum axillare
Project description:The genus Chlorophytum includes many economically important species well-known for medicinal, ornamental, and horticultural values. However, to date, few molecular genomic resources have been reported for this genus. Therefore, there is limited knowledge of phylogenetic studies, and the available chloroplast (cp) genome of Chlorophytum (C. rhizopendulum) does not provide enough information on this genus. In this study, we present genomic resources for C. comosum and C. gallabatense, which had lengths of 154,248 and 154,154 base pairs (bp), respectively. They had a pair of inverted repeats (IRa and IRb) of 26,114 and 26,254 bp each in size, separating the large single-copy (LSC) region of 84,004 and 83,686 bp from the small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,016 and 17,960 bp in C. comosum and C. gallabatense, respectively. There were 112 distinct genes in each cp genome, which were comprised of 78 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and four rRNA genes. The comparative analysis with five other selected species displayed a generally high level of sequence resemblance in structural organization, gene content, and arrangement. Additionally, the phylogenetic analysis confirmed the previous phylogeny and produced a phylogenetic tree with similar topology. It showed that the Chlorophytum species (C. comosum, C. gallabatense and C. rhizopendulum) were clustered together in the same clade with a closer relationship than other plants to the Anthericum ramosum. This research, therefore, presents valuable records for further molecular evolutionary and phylogenetic studies which help to fill the gap in genomic resources and resolve the taxonomic complexes of the genus.
