Project description:The Hydrophobic protein from soybean (HPS) locus is polymorphic among soybean cultivars and copy-number changes in the tandem array at this locus are directly correlated with expression level and seed coat luster phenotypes. Keywords: comparative genomic hybridization
Project description:Soybean cultivars RCAT-Angora & Harovinton, comparison of embryos at 30,40,50,60 & 70 days after pollination (dap) and seed development within each cultivar" Keywords: time course
Project description:<p>The common cutworm (CCW; <em>Spodoptera litura</em>) is one of the major insect pests of soybean in Asia and Oceania. Although quantitative trail loci related to CCW resistance have been introduced into leading soybean cultivars, these do not exhibit sufficient resistance against CCW. Thus, understanding the genetic and metabolic resistance mechanisms of CCW as well as integrating other new resistance genes are required. In this study, we focused on a primitive soybean landrace, Peking, which has retained resistances to various pests. We found a resistance to CCW in Peking by the detached-leaf feeding assay, and subsequently determined the genetic and metabolic basis of the resistance mechanism using chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) of Peking. Several characteristic metabolites for Peking were identified by the metabolomic approach using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry combined with a principle component analysis. The structure of seven metabolites were determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis. The genomic segments of Peking on chromosome 06 (Chr06) and Chr20 had a clear association with these metabolites. Moreover, a line possessing a Peking genomic segment on Chr20 inhibited growth of the CCW. The genetic factors and the metabolites on Chr20 in Peking will be useful for understanding mechanisms underlying CCW resistance and breeding resistant soybean cultivars.</p>
Project description:Seeds, including soybean (Glycine max), contain bioactive proteins with anti-nutritional and immunological properties that affect metabolism and assimilation of seed derived nutrients and as allergens that can induce escalating adverse immune responses. The presence of anti-nutritional proteins requires soybean protein to be processed by heat that results in energy costs and alteration of soybean protein’s physiochemical properties. Nulls for bioactive seed proteins have been isolated from the USDA soybean collection including Kunitz trypsin inhibitor (TI) and soybean agglutinin (LE) and immunodominant soybean allergen P34 proteins. Each of these nulls has the potential to partially address concerns of soybean feed/food consumption and stacked together these traits can form a basis for engineering improved soybean cultivars. A stack of cultivars of recessive nulls of TI, LE, and P34 was created in a cv Williams 82 background termed “Triple Null”. The reduction of these proteins slightly diminishes the overall protein content of the seed that was analyzed by 2D IEF/SDS gels and proteomics. P34 and Kunitz Trypsin Inhibitor nulls are frame shift mutants shown by mass spectroscopy to accumulate small amounts of authentic protein. Triple Null’s capacity for biolistic transformation was assessed showing that Triple Null can be transformed permitting stacking of transgene traits. Triple Null has possible application as a conventional feed/food source and for immunotherapy to mitigate soybean allergenic response and be leveraged as a transformation platform to stack other production or consumer traits.
Project description:We present results from deep sequencing of small RNA populations from several genotypes of soybean and demonstrate that the CHS siRNAs accumulated only in the seed coats of the yellow varieties having either the dominant I or i-i alleles and not in the pigmented seed coats with homozygous recessive i genotypes. However, the diagnostic CHS siRNAs did not accumulate in the cotyledons of genotypes with the dominant I or i-i alleles thus demonstrating the novelty of an endogenous inverted repeat region of CHS genes driving RNA silencing in trans of non-linked CHS family members in a tissue-specific manner. The phenomenon results in inhibition of a metabolic pathway by siRNAs in one tissue allowing expression of the flavonoid pathway and synthesis of secondary metabolites in other organs as the chalcone synthase small RNAs are found in the seed coats of yellow seeded soybean varieties but not in the cotyledons of the same genotype. In order to compare the population of chalcone synthase related small RNAs, we sequenced 3 to 6 million small RNAs using the Illumina Genome Analyzer from the following four soybean cultivars and tissues with specific genotypes at the I locus: Richland immature seed coats (homozygous for the dominant I allele that specifies yellow seed coat); Williams immature seed coats (homozygous for the dominant i-i allele that specifies yellow seed coat with pigmented hilum) Williams (i-i/i-i yellow) immature cotyledons (homozygous for the dominant i-i allele that specifies yellow seed coat with pigmented hilum); Williams 55 immature seed coats (a Williams isogenic line homozygous for the recessive i allele that specifics pigmented seed coats. All seed coats and cotyledons were dissected from green stage immature seeds within the fresh weight range of 50-75 mg.
Project description:To dissect the gene regulatory networks operating during soybean seed development, we identified the binding sites genome-wide for transcription factor in soybean seeds during seed development using ChIP-seq
Project description:To dissect the gene regulatory networks operating during soybean seed development, we identified the binding sites genome-wide for transcription factor in soybean seeds during seed development using ChIP-seq