Project description:The associated files are mass spec data from Size exlusion and Triple-phase ion exchange chromatographic separations of native fern (Ceratopteris richardii) frond extract. The ion exchange separation used a concatenated series of 3 columns (WAX, WAX, CAT).
2019-10-28 | PXD013320 | Pride
Project description:The complete chloroplast genome of a distinctive fern, Coniogramme intermedia (Pteridaceae)
Project description:Regeneration is common in plants and transcription factors greatly contribute to this versatility of flowering plants; however, the evolution of this capability has hardly been explored. The callus can be induced from an intact plant rather than an explant in the water fern Ceratopteris richardii and the employed media are very different. The callus was verified having resulted in indirect de novo shoot organogenesis (IDNSO). Hundreds of genes were differentially expressed between the proliferating and the differentiating callus, hinting at significant changes in photosynthesis and hormone response. Many transcription factors were also differentially expressed, providing cues on how the callus proliferated and differentiated. STM-, ANT-, and ESE3-like transcription factor were simultaneously expressed in the vascular-initial-like cells in the callus, thus identifying a key tissue in callus differentiation; furthermore, they might have undergone subfunctionalization or neofunctionalization during evolution. Therefore, IDNSO was considered both conserved and diversified throughout vascular plants.
Project description:This study uses five species of the genus Ecrobia as a model taxon to demonstrate the applicability of proteomic fingerprinting measured by MALDI-TOF MS (matrix-assisted laser/desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry) to cryptic gastropod species and evaluate the discriminative power the proteomic profiles.
Project description:The aim of this study is to identify alterations induced in gastric mucosa of mice exposed to Pteridium aquilinum and/or infected with Helicobacter pylori, in order to identify genes that are induced by bracken fern exerts exacerbating effects on gastric lesions associated to the infection. Six groups of C57Bl/6 mice were be used: 1) control, 2) infected Helicobacter pylori, 3) treated with Bracken fern extract orogastrically, 4) treated with Bracken fern extract in drinking water, 5) infected Helicobacter pylori + treated with Bracken fern extract orogastrically, 6) infected Helicobacter pylori + treated with Bracken fern extract in drinking water. The infection procedure was performed using an orogastric inoculation of H.pylori (strain SS1) twice in the first week. The RNA isolation was done in triplicate (3 mice per each condition). Further evaluation of morphological alterations on gastric mucosa, proliferative index and induction of DNA strand breaks will be performed in the mice stomach exposed to Pteridium aquilinum infected or not with Helicobacter pylori. Alterations of glycosylation in gastric tissues will also evaluated.
Project description:To generate a de novo transcriptome assembly from three different parts of the Ceratopteris richardii young sporophyte (Hn-n cultivar). We then performed a differential gene expression analysis between the different plant segments, while trying to understand the expressed genes for each Ceratopteris part.
Project description:Members of the genus Equisetum are often referred to as “living fossils”, partly because they are the only extant representatives of the Equisetidae, a subclass that was once prominent in late Paleozoic forests. Several classes of specialized metabolites have been reported to occur in the genus Equisetum. However, while steady progress is being made with identifying individual novel metabolites of Equisetum, few if any analyses have focused on assessing the chemical diversity across the genus. The present study focused on three species: E. hyemale subsp. affine (rough horsetail or scouring rush), which is native to the temperate to artic portions of North America; E. arvense (common horsetail), which is endemic to the arctic and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere; and Equisetum telmateia subsp. braunii (Milde) Hauke (giant horsetail), which is native to western North America. Both below-ground rhizome and above-ground shoot material was harvested from each species, extracted with aqueous methanol, and subjected to non-targeted HPLC-QTOF-MS analysis. This research project was designed to lay the foundation for continued research to capture the metabolic capabilities in the ferns and fern allies.
Project description:To explore the role of auxin in Ceratopteris richardii root initiation, we carried out RNA-seq to analyze gene expression levels upon 2,4-D treatment.
