Project description:WRKY45-overexpressing (WRKY45-ox) rice plants are extremely resistant to rice blast and bacterial leaf-blight diseases. To search for the genes that are potentially responsible for the strong resistance, we performed genome-wide gene expression analysis in WRKY45-ox rice. A microarray analysis using Agilent rice oligo microarray for approximately 42,000 rice genes identified 1,664 genes that are upregulated in WRKY45-ox rice compared with non-transformant rice cv. Nipponbare (NB). Analysis of the genes with altered expression in WRKY45-ox rice by a Gene ontology program (Agri GO; http://bioinfo.cau.edu.cn/agriGO/) revealed that several genes in the biosynthetic pathway for diterpenoid phytoalexins, for which anti-blast fungus activities have been reported, were upregulated in WRKY45-ox rice.
Project description:WRKY45-overexpressing (WRKY45-ox) rice plants are extremely resistant to rice blast and bacterial leaf-blight diseases. To search for the genes that are potentially responsible for the strong resistance, we performed genome-wide gene expression analysis in WRKY45-ox rice. A microarray analysis using Agilent rice oligo microarray for approximately 42,000 rice genes identified 1,664 genes that are upregulated in WRKY45-ox rice compared with non-transformant rice cv. Nipponbare (NB). Analysis of the genes with altered expression in WRKY45-ox rice by a Gene ontology program (Agri GO; http://bioinfo.cau.edu.cn/agriGO/) revealed that several genes in the biosynthetic pathway for diterpenoid phytoalexins, for which anti-blast fungus activities have been reported, were upregulated in WRKY45-ox rice. Nipponbare rice (Oryza sativa) and WRKY45-ox rice were analyzed in three biological replicates.
Project description:Ghd7 regulates a range of functions in growth and development in response to environmental cues to maximize the reproductive success of the rice plant. We used microarrays to detail the regulated genes in OX-Ghd7HJ19 transgenic plants. To gain clues to downstream genes regulated by Ghd7, we performed a microarray analysis using Affimetrix rice gene chips. Young leaves in vegetative stage (35-days old) and developing panicles (0.1cm) from field-grown OX-Ghd7HJ19 transgenic and wild-type plants with two biological replicates were used to isolate RNA for chip analysis.
Project description:A transcription factor CYTOKININ-RESPONSIVE GATA FACTOR 1 (CGA1) regulates chloroplast development in rice (Oryza sativa) through modifying the expression of important nuclear expressed, chloroplast localized genes. A transcriptome analysis was done in wild type plants and transgenic rice over-expressing this OsCGA1 to identify the set of genes with altered expression. RNA was extracted from leaves of 4-wk old wild type and OsCGA1 overexpressing rice plants and hybridized to Affymetrix Rice Genome Array. Three biological replicates were sampled for wild type and OX plants.
Project description:OsRUS1-GFP overexpression (OsRUS1-OX) transgenic rice lines were generated using ZH-11 wildtype. Under well-watered conditions, the leaves of OsRUS1-OX transgenic rice lines could roll in about four minutes under sunlight, and the rolled leaves of OsRUS1-OX transgenic rice lines could expand in about seven minutes if the sunlight was shaded, while the leaves of wildtype ZH-11 expanded all the times at the same conditions. The mechanism behind the light-responded rapid and dynamic leaf rolling phenotype of OsRUS1-OX transgenic rice lines is unknown. Therefore, in order to understand this mechanism the RNA-Seq approach was used to explore the expressed genes difference between OsRUS1-OX and ZH-11.
Project description:Ghd7 regulates a range of functions in growth and development in response to environmental cues to maximize the reproductive success of the rice plant. We used microarrays to detail the regulated genes in OX-Ghd7HJ19 transgenic plants.
Project description:Over expression of a transcription factor OsEREBP1 results in attenuation of disease symptoms upon infection with bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and tolerance to drought stress in transgenic rice plants. Microarray analysis was performed to identify genes regulated by the rice transcription factor OsERBP1. Four independent replicates of the experimental OsEREBP1-ox transgenic plants and the control non-transgenic Kitaake plants were grown under normal conditions.
Project description:Vector control and OsTZF1-OX rice plants (O. sativa L. cv. Nipponbare) were grown in plastic pots filled with nutrient soil for 2 weeks under flooded lowland conditions and a 12 h/12 h light/dark cycle (1000 umol photons/m2/s) at 28C (day) and 25C (night). For NaCl treatment, two-week-old plants were transferred to 250 mM NaCl solution and incubated for 2 days under the above conditions.