Project description:Purpose: Soybean aphid, Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae) and soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines Ichinohe, (SCN) are the two most economically important pests of soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr., in the Midwest. Although the soybean aphid is an aboveground pest and SCN is a belowground pest there is evidence that concomitant infestations result in improved SCN reproduction. This study is aimed to characterize the three-way interactions among soybean, soybean aphid and SCN using demographic and genetic datasets. Results: More than 1.1 billion reads (61.4 GB) of transcriptomic data were yielded from 47 samples derived from the experiment using whole roots of G. max. The phred quality scores per base for all the samples were higher than 30. The GC content ranged from 43 to 45% and followed the normal distribution. After trimming, more than 99% of the reads were retained as the clean and good quality reads. Upon mapping these reads, we obtained high mapping rate ranging from 73.8% to 94.3%. Among the mapped reads, 67.1% to 87.6% reads were uniquely mapped. Conclusions: The comprehensive understanding of these transcriptome data would help in understanding the molecular interactions among soybean, A. glycines, and H. glycines. The use of multifaceted bioinformatics approaches could facilitate finding candidate genes and their function that might play a crucial role in various pathways for host resistance against both soybean aphids and SCN. For differential gene expression analysis, EdgeR, limma, and DEseq2 could be used. Apart from standalone tools like iDEP, Galaxy (https://usegalaxy.org), CyVerse (http://www.cyverse.org), and MeV (http://mev.tm4.org) could also be used for both analysis and visualization of RNA- seq data.
Project description:Expression profiling of 7,530 Heterodera glycines probesets present on the Affymetrix Soybean Genome Array GeneChip throughout the life cycle of the nematode (egg, infective J2, parasitic J2, J3, J4, adult female).
Project description:Gene expression profiles in the bacterial pustule-resistant soybean cultivars To investigate the differential action between resistance and susceptible cultivars, we examined genome wide expression levels at five time points after X. axonopodis pv. Glycines (Xag) inoculation using microarray.
Project description:Septoria leaf blotch is a worldwide threat for wheat and mainly controlled by the application of synthetic fungicides. The fungal pathogen responsible for this disease, Zymoseptoria tritici, was shown as highly adaptable to its host plant, but also to fungicide challenge. Over the past decades it developed resistance to most fungicides due to target site modifications. Recently isolated strains showed cross-resistance to diverse fungicides and to unrelated drugs, suggesting a resistance mechanism that seems rarer in phytopathogenic fungi, known as multidrug resistance (MDR) in other organisms. In this study we show for two Z. tritici MDR strains, MDR6 and MDR7, enhanced prochloraz efflux sensitive to the modulators amitryptiline and chlorpromazine. Efflux was also inhibited by verapamil in the MDR7strain. Transcriptomics revealed several overexpressed transporter genes in both MDR strains, out of which the expression of the MgMFS1 transporter gene was the strongest and constitutively high in tested MDR field strains. Its inactivation in the MDR6 strain abolished resistance to fungicides with different modes of action revealing its involvement in the MDR phenomenon in Z. tritici.
Project description:Septoria leaf blotch is a worldwide threat for wheat and mainly controlled by the application of synthetic fungicides. The fungal pathogen responsible for this disease, Zymoseptoria tritici, was shown as highly adaptable to its host plant, but also to fungicide challenge. Over the past decades it developed resistance to most fungicides due to target site modifications. Recently isolated strains showed cross-resistance to diverse fungicides and to unrelated drugs, suggesting a resistance mechanism that seems rarer in phytopathogenic fungi, known as multidrug resistance (MDR) in other organisms. In this study we show for two Z. tritici MDR strains, MDR6 and MDR7, enhanced prochloraz efflux sensitive to the modulators amitryptiline and chlorpromazine. Efflux was also inhibited by verapamil in the MDR7strain. Transcriptomics revealed several overexpressed transporter genes in both MDR strains, out of which the expression of the MgMFS1 transporter gene was the strongest and constitutively high in tested MDR field strains. Its inactivation in the MDR6 strain abolished resistance to fungicides with different modes of action revealing its involvement in the MDR phenomenon in Z. tritici. A total of four strains were compared, two sensitive (IPO323, S6) and two MDR strains (09-ASA-3apz; 09-CB01) with three replicates each. All strains were grown in liquid YPD medium to exponential growth.
Project description:This model is from the article:
Reduction of off-flavor generation in soybean homogenates: a mathematical model.
Mellor N , Bligh F , Chandler I , Hodgman C
J. Food Sci.2010 Sep; 75(7): R131-8; PMID: 2153556,
Abstract:
The generation of off-flavors in soybean homogenates such as n-hexanal via the lipoxygenase (LOX) pathway can be a problem in the processed food industry. Previous studies have examined the effect of using soybean varieties missing one or more of the 3 LOX isozymes on n-hexanal generation. A dynamic mathematical model of the soybean LOX pathway using ordinary differential equations was constructed using parameters estimated from existing data with the aim of predicting how n-hexanal generation could be reduced. Time-course simulations of LOX-null beans were run and compared with experimental results. Model L(2), L(3), and L(12) beans were within the range relative to the wild type found experimentally, with L(13) and L(23) beans close to the experimental range. Model L(1) beans produced much more n-hexanal relative to the wild type than those in experiments. Sensitivity analysis indicates that reducing the estimated K(m) parameter for LOX isozyme 3 (L-3) would improve the fit between model predictions and experimental results found in the literature. The model also predicts that increasing L-3 or reducing L-2 levels within beans may reduce n-hexanal generation. PRACTICAL APPLICATION: This work describes the use of mathematics to attempt to quantify the enzyme-catalyzed conversions of compounds in soybean homogenates into undesirable flavors, primarily from the compound n-hexanal. The effect of different soybean genotypes and enzyme kinetic constants was also studied, leading to recommendations on which combinations might minimize off-flavor levels and what further work might be carried out to substantiate these conclusions.