Project description:Phosphate starvation/sufficient rice seedling, root or shoot Pi-starvation or Pi-sufficient stresses responsible rice genes, including previously unannotated genes were identified by Illumina mRNA-seq technology. 53 million reads from Pi-starvation or Pi-sufficient root or shoot tissues were uniquely mapped to the rice genome, and these included 40574 RAP3 transcripts in root and 39748 RAP3 transcripts in shoot. We compared our mRNA-seq expression data with that from Rice 44K oligomicroarray, and about 95.5% (root) and 95.4% (shoot) transcripts supported by the array were confirmed expression both by the array and by mRNA-seq, Moreover, 11888 (root) and 11098 (shoot) RAP genes which were not supported by array, were evidenced expression with mRNA-seq. Furthermore, we discovered 8590 (root) and 8193 (shoot) previously unannotated transcripts upon Pi-starvation and/or Pi-sufficient.
Project description:The RNA-seq technique aims to identify genes that are differently expressed in low nitrogen (2mM (NH4)2SO4) and high nitrogen (10mM (NH4)2SO4) conditions.
Project description:Oryza sativa cv. Nipponbare was engineered to over-express a barley alanine aminotransferase (alaAT) gene using the promoter (OsANT1) from a rice aldehyde dehydrogenase gene that expresses in roots. We use biotechnology to improve the nitrogen use efficiency of rice by over-expressing alaAT in a tissue specific (root) manner. The AlaAT enzyme is a reversible aminotransferase that is linked to both C and N metabolism since it uses pyruvate plus glutamate to produce alanine and 2-oxoglutarate, and visa versa. Transcriptome data from the roots and shoots of rice plants at maximum tillering, grown hydroponically on either 0.5, 2 or 5 mM NH4+ as the nitrogen source. Wildtype rice (Nipponbare) and two independent OsANT1:HvAlaAT rice transgenic lines (AGR1/7, and AGR3/8) were grown hydroponically with either 0.5, 2 or 5mM NH4+ as the nitrogen source, to the reproductive stage. Tissue samples were taken at active and maximum tillering from root and shoot, at mid-day of the plants' day/night cycle. The RNA from root and shoot at maxiumum tillering was used for mcroarray analysis. Please read Beatty et al., 2009, PLant Biotechnology Journal 7, pp562-576 for detailed about these transgenic lines. The results from this variable N study were reported in a manuscript submitted to Botany, July 2013
Project description:Microarray based expression study in two rice contrasting genotypes under low nitrogen hydroponics condition microarray revealed upregulated transporter genes for nitrogen uptake in shoot tissues
Project description:The RNA-seq technique aims to identify genes that are differently expressed in low nitrogen (2mM (NH4)2SO4) and high nitrogen (10mM (NH4)2SO4) conditions. Two groups of Serratia sp. ZM were analysed by us, low nitrogen group and high nitrogen group.
Project description:Oryza sativa cv. Nipponbare was engineered to over-express a barley alanine aminotransferase (alaAT) gene using the promoter (OsANT1) from a rice aldehyde dehydrogenase gene that expresses in roots. We are using biotechnology to improve the nitrogen use efficiency of rice by over-expressing alaAT in a tissue specific (root) manner. The AlaAT enzyme is a reversible aminotransferase that is linked to both C and N metabolism since it uses pyruvate plus glutamate to produce alanine and 2-oxoglutarate, and visa versa. Wildtype rice (Nipponbare) and three independent OsANT1:HvAlaAT rice transgenic lines (AGR1/7, AGR1/8 and AGR3/8) were grown hydroponically with 5mM NH4+ as the nitrogen source, to the reproductive stage. RNA samples were taken at active tillering, maximum tillering and end-of-tillering stages from root and shoot, at mid-day of the plants' day/night cycle. The RNA from root and shoot at maxiumum tillering was used for microarray analysis. Please read Beatty et al., 2009, Plant Biotechnology Journal 7, pp562-576 for further details..
