ABSTRACT: Transcriptome wide identification and characterization of NAC Transcription factors in response to abiotic stress in Oxytenanthera abyssinica A.rich munro
Project description:ONAC127 and ONAC129 are NAC transcription factors that involved in abiotic stress response and play key regulatory roles in apoplasmic transportation during rice caryopsis filling. To reveal the transcription regulatory network of ONAC127 and ONAC129 in rice caryopsis, we performed genome-wide identification of ONAC127 and ONAC129 targets by immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) analyses in the overexpression lines of ONAC127 and ONAC129 under natural heat stress(H) and normal cultivation condition(N) with three technical replicates.
Project description:ONAC127 and ONAC129 are NAC transcription factors that involved in abiotic stress response and play key regulatory roles in apoplasmic transportation during rice caryopsis filling. To reveal the transcription regulatory network of ONAC127 and ONAC129 in rice caryopsis, we identified significantly differentially expressed genes by RNA-Seq analysis using the caryopses of the CRISPR-mutants(CR) and overexpression lines(OX) of ONAC127 and ONAC129 under natural heat stress(H) and normal cultivation condition(N).
Project description:Sunflower is an important source of vegetable oil worlwide. A differential organ-specific sunflower ESTs was previously generated by a subtractive hybridization method, including a considerable number of abiotic stress associated sequences. The objective of this work is to analyze the sunflower gene expression of previously identified candidate genes under a comprehensive microarray analysis of the leaf transcriptoma under cold and salinity stresses, considering the impacts of these abiotic stresses on sunflower yield in many productive areas. The aimed of this work is to perform genome analysis of sunflower based on its functional regions and the characterization of the sunflower transcriptoma profiles for different organ-specific genes. Abiotic-related expressed genes were the target of this characterization through a gene expression analysis of the local EST bank (annotated according to Gene Ontology Annotation) using a cDNA organ-specific microarray chip approach. We analyzed 287 differentially expressed genes derived from leaf, stem, R1 and R4 flower developmental stages. Transcriptional analysis allowed the detection of three different groups of genes according to their expression patterns. Group 1 contained 112 up-regulated genes under abiotic stress conditions (cold or salinity), whereas Group 2 (126 genes) did not show changes in their expression levels. On the other hand, 49 genes were classified as Group 3 included were down-regulated genes under both stresses. Eighty genes exhibited a significative fold change under abiotic stress conditions, being six of them validated by qRT-PCR. Microrarray profiling of cold and NaCl-treated sunflower leaves revealed dynamic changes in transcript abundance, including transcription factors, defense/stress related proteins, and effectors of homeostasis, all of which highlight the complexity of both stress responses. This finding provides identification of many transcriptional processes occurring under abiotic stress in sunflower for genes isolated from organ-specific cDNA libraries Keywords: gene expression profile of organ-specific sunflower transcriptoma in response to NaCl and cold
