Project description:Domestication and improvement are two important stages in crop evolution. Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is an important vegetable crop with wide phenotypic diversity in many horticultural traits, especially fruit size, flesh thickness and aroma, which are likely the results of long-term extensive selection during its evolution. However, selective signals in domestication and improvement stages for these remarkable variations remain unclear. We resequenced 297 wild, landrace and improved melon accessions and obtained 2 045 412 high-quality SNPs. Population structure and genetic diversity analyses revealed independent and two-step selections in two subspecies of melon: ssp. melo and ssp. agrestis during melon breeding. We detected 233 (~18.35 Mbp) and 159 (~17.71 Mbp) novel potential selective signals during the improvement stage in ssp. agrestis and spp. melo, respectively. Two alcohol acyltransferase genes (CmAATs) unique to the melon genome compared with other cucurbit crops may have undergone stronger selection in ssp. agrestis for the characteristic aroma as compared with other cucurbits. Genome-wide association analysis identified eight fruit size and seven flesh thickness signals overlapping with selective sweeps. Compared with thin-skinned ssp. agrestis, thick-skinned ssp. melo has undergone a stronger selection for thicker flesh. In most melon accessions, CmCLV3 has pleiotropic effects on carpel number and fruit shape. Findings from this study provide novel insights into melon crop evolution, and new tools to advance melon breeding.
Project description:Jiashi melon and 86-1 melon were inoculated with Alternaria alternata, and the difference of gene expression was analyzed after 0, 6, 12, 18 and 24 days storage.
Project description:Viruses are among the most destructive and difficult to control plant pathogens. Melon (Cucumismelo L.) has become the model species for the agriculturally important Cucurbitaceae family. Approaches that take advantage of recently developed genomic tools in melon are being extremely useful for understanding viral pathogenesis and can contribute to the identification of target genes to breed new resistant cultivars. In this work, we have used a recently described melon microarray for transcriptome profiling of two melon cultivars infected with two strains of Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) that only differ on their 3´-untranslated regions. Tissues of melon plants from cultivars Out of 7566 and 7074 genes deregulated by MNSV-Mα5 and MNSV-Mα5/3’264, 1851 and 1356, respectively, were strain-specific. Likewise, MNSV-Mα5/3’264 specifically deregulated 2925 and 1618 genes in Planters Jumbo and Tendral, respectively. Thus, significantly affected GO categories were clearly different for the different virus/host combinations. Grouping genes according to their patterns of expression allowed the identification of two groups specifically deregulated by MNSV-Mα5/3’264 with respect to MNSV-Mα5 in Tendral, and one group antagonistically regulated in Planters Jumbo vs. Tendral after MNSV-Mα5/3’264 infection. Genes in these three groups belong to a diversity of functional classes, and no obvious regulatory commonalities were identified. When data on MNSV-Mα5/Tendral infections were compared to equivalent data on cucumber mosaic virus or watermelon mosaic virus infections, cytokinin-O-glucosyltransferase2 was identified as the only gene deregulated by the three viruses, with infections dynamics correlating with the amplitude of transcriptome remodeling. Both common and strain-specific changes, as well as common but also cultivar-specific changes, have been identified by profiling transcriptomes of plants from two melon cultivars infected with two MNSV strains. No obvious regulatory features shared among deregulated genes have been identified, pointing toward regulation through differential functional implications. Viruses are among the most destructive and difficult to control plant pathogens. Melon (Cucumismelo L.) has become the model species for the agriculturally important Cucurbitaceae family. Approaches that take advantage of recently developed genomic tools in melon are being extremely useful for understanding viral pathogenesis and can contribute to the identification of target genes to breed new resistant cultivars. In this work, we have used a recently described melon microarray for transcriptome profiling of two melon cultivars infected with two strains of Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) that only differ on their 3´-untranslated regions. Tissues of melon plants from cultivars Out of 7566 and 7074 genes deregulated by MNSV-Mα5 and MNSV-Mα5/3’264, 1851 and 1356, respectively, were strain-specific. Likewise, MNSV-Mα5/3’264 specifically deregulated 2925 and 1618 genes in Planters Jumbo and Tendral, respectively. Thus, significantly affected GO categories were clearly different for the different virus/host combinations. Grouping genes according to their patterns of expression allowed the identification of two groups specifically deregulated by MNSV-Mα5/3’264 with respect to MNSV-Mα5 in Tendral, and one group antagonistically regulated in Planters Jumbo vs. Tendral after MNSV-Mα5/3’264 infection. Genes in these three groups belong to a diversity of functional classes, and no obvious regulatory commonalities were identified. When data on MNSV-Mα5/Tendral infections were compared to equivalent data on cucumber mosaic virus or watermelon mosaic virus infections, cytokinin-O-glucosyltransferase2 was identified as the only gene deregulated by the three viruses, with infections dynamics correlating with the amplitude of transcriptome remodeling. Both common and strain-specific changes, as well as common but also cultivar-specific changes, have been identified by profiling transcriptomes of plants from two melon cultivars infected with two MNSV strains. No obvious regulatory features shared among deregulated genes have been identified, pointing toward regulation through differential functional implications.
Project description:Viruses are among the most destructive and difficult to control plant pathogens. Melon (Cucumismelo L.) has become the model species for the agriculturally important Cucurbitaceae family. Approaches that take advantage of recently developed genomic tools in melon are being extremely useful for understanding viral pathogenesis and can contribute to the identification of target genes to breed new resistant cultivars. In this work, we have used a recently described melon microarray for transcriptome profiling of two melon cultivars infected with two strains of Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) that only differ on their 3´-untranslated regions. Tissues of melon plants from cultivars Out of 7566 and 7074 genes deregulated by MNSV-Mα5 and MNSV-Mα5/3’264, 1851 and 1356, respectively, were strain-specific. Likewise, MNSV-Mα5/3’264 specifically deregulated 2925 and 1618 genes in Planters Jumbo and Tendral, respectively. Thus, significantly affected GO categories were clearly different for the different virus/host combinations. Grouping genes according to their patterns of expression allowed the identification of two groups specifically deregulated by MNSV-Mα5/3’264 with respect to MNSV-Mα5 in Tendral, and one group antagonistically regulated in Planters Jumbo vs. Tendral after MNSV-Mα5/3’264 infection. Genes in these three groups belong to a diversity of functional classes, and no obvious regulatory commonalities were identified. When data on MNSV-Mα5/Tendral infections were compared to equivalent data on cucumber mosaic virus or watermelon mosaic virus infections, cytokinin-O-glucosyltransferase2 was identified as the only gene deregulated by the three viruses, with infections dynamics correlating with the amplitude of transcriptome remodeling. Both common and strain-specific changes, as well as common but also cultivar-specific changes, have been identified by profiling transcriptomes of plants from two melon cultivars infected with two MNSV strains. No obvious regulatory features shared among deregulated genes have been identified, pointing toward regulation through differential functional implications. Viruses are among the most destructive and difficult to control plant pathogens. Melon (Cucumismelo L.) has become the model species for the agriculturally important Cucurbitaceae family. Approaches that take advantage of recently developed genomic tools in melon are being extremely useful for understanding viral pathogenesis and can contribute to the identification of target genes to breed new resistant cultivars. In this work, we have used a recently described melon microarray for transcriptome profiling of two melon cultivars infected with two strains of Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) that only differ on their 3´-untranslated regions. Tissues of melon plants from cultivars Out of 7566 and 7074 genes deregulated by MNSV-Mα5 and MNSV-Mα5/3’264, 1851 and 1356, respectively, were strain-specific. Likewise, MNSV-Mα5/3’264 specifically deregulated 2925 and 1618 genes in Planters Jumbo and Tendral, respectively. Thus, significantly affected GO categories were clearly different for the different virus/host combinations. Grouping genes according to their patterns of expression allowed the identification of two groups specifically deregulated by MNSV-Mα5/3’264 with respect to MNSV-Mα5 in Tendral, and one group antagonistically regulated in Planters Jumbo vs. Tendral after MNSV-Mα5/3’264 infection. Genes in these three groups belong to a diversity of functional classes, and no obvious regulatory commonalities were identified. When data on MNSV-Mα5/Tendral infections were compared to equivalent data on cucumber mosaic virus or watermelon mosaic virus infections, cytokinin-O-glucosyltransferase2 was identified as the only gene deregulated by the three viruses, with infections dynamics correlating with the amplitude of transcriptome remodeling. Both common and strain-specific changes, as well as common but also cultivar-specific changes, have been identified by profiling transcriptomes of plants from two melon cultivars infected with two MNSV strains. No obvious regulatory features shared among deregulated genes have been identified, pointing toward regulation through differential functional implications.
Project description:Marchantia polymorpha male (tak-1) and female (tak-2) accessions were subjected to a combined heat-drought stress in daily shocks of 1 hour long for two days, ending up with control samples, T1 and T2 stressed samples. Five biological replicates from both accessions were taking into account, all together resultig in 30 samples submitted to proteomic analysis.
Project description:RNA microarray was used to analyze the differentialy expressed genes between stably transfected HEK293T cells of the overexpression of the new FMRP isoform with 297 amino acid and stably transfected HEK293T cells of empty lentiviral vector. we constructed the lentiviral vector of exons 1-9 together with the sequence of 140bp fragment of human FMR1 gene to overexpress the truncated FMRP with 297 amino acid, and transfected cells with the void plasmid pLEX-MCS were regarded as control group.