Project description:De novo shoot regeneration is an essential step for massive propagation and genetic engineering of elite germplasm in forestry. Poplar that is a fast growth tree species have a very important ecologically and economically role around the world, especially in China. In this study, we found that PtWOX11 that is a homologue of AtWOX11 not only involved de novo root formation but also promote de novo shoot regeneration in poplar. We demonstrated that PtWOX11 can enhance callus regeneration competence and shoot regeneration during two-step de novo shoot regeneration. Furthermore, by using RNA-seq and qPCR, we uncovered that during callus induction stage PtWOX11 activates PtPLTs expression to promote callus formation and regeneration competence, and promote PtCUC2/3, PtWUSa and PtSTM transcription to fulfil shoot organogenesis during shoot regeneration stage. Overall, our data indicated that PtWOX11 play a new function and transcriptional regulation mechanism on de novo shoot regeneration in poplar.
Project description:Protein arginine methylation plays essential roles in diverse biological processes, but its role in regulating shoot regeneration remains elusive. In this study, we analyzed the function of the protein arginine methyltransferase AtPRMT5 during de novo shoot regeneration in Arabidopsis. AtPRMT5 encodes a type II PRMT that methylates proteins, including histones and RNA splicing factors. Mutation of AtPMRT5 decreased the frequency of shoot regeneration and number of shoots per callus in the atprmt5 mutant compared with those of the wild type. To understand the mechanism of AtPRMT5 regulation of shoot regeneration, we analyzed the transcript levels of wild type and the mutant atprmt5 calli during shoot regeneration by RNA-seq. Three biological repeats of wild type and the mutant atprmt5-1 calli were used for RNA sequencing. Total RNAs were isolated from the calli of wild type Col and the mutant atprmt5-1 cultured on cultured on shoot-induction medium. The RNA-seq llibraries were constructed with TruSeq Stranded mRNA Library Prep Kit and sequenced using the Illumina Hiseq 2500. The raw reads were aligned to the genome sequences of TAIR10 using Tophat software. The gene expression levels were measured in RPKM, and many critical genes regulated by AtPRMT5 were identified to be involved in shoot regeneration.
Project description:Plants can regenerate from a variety of tissues on culturing in appropriate media. However, the metabolic shifts involved in callus formation and shoot regeneration are largely unknown. The metabolic profiles of callus generated from tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cotyledons and that of shoot regenerated from callus were compared with the pct1-2 mutant that exhibits enhanced polar auxin transport and the shr mutant that exhibits elevated nitric oxide levels. The transformation from cotyledon to callus involved a major shift in metabolite profiles with denser metabolic networks in the callus. In contrast, the transformation from callus to shoot involved minor changes in the networks. The metabolic networks in pct1-2 and shr mutants were distinct from wild type and were rewired with shifts in endogenous hormones and metabolite interactions. The callus formation was accompanied by a reduction in the levels of metabolites involved in cell wall lignification and cellular immunity. On the contrary, the levels of monoamines were upregulated in the callus and regenerated shoot. The callus formation and shoot regeneration were accompanied by an increase in salicylic acid in wild type and mutants. The transformation to the callus and also to the shoot downregulated LST8 and upregulated TOR transcript levels indicating a putative linkage between metabolic shift and TOR signalling pathway. The network analysis indicates that shift in metabolite profiles during callus formation and shoot regeneration is governed by a complex interaction between metabolites and endogenous hormones.
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:Plants generally possess a strong ability to regenerate organs; for example, in tissue culture, shoots can regenerate from callus, a clump of actively proliferating, undifferentiated cells. Processing of pre-mRNA and ribosomal RNAs is important for callus formation and shoot regeneration. However, our knowledge of the roles of RNA quality control via the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway in shoot regeneration is limited. Here, we examined the shoot regeneration phenotypes of the low-beta-amylase1 (lba1)/upstream frame shift1-1 (upf1-1) and upf3-1 mutants, in which the core NMD components UPF1 and UPF3 are defective. These mutants formed callus from hypocotyl explants normally, but this callus behaved abnormally during shoot regeneration: the mutant callus generated numerous adventitious root structures instead of adventitious shoots in an auxin-dependent manner. Quantitative RT-PCR and microarray analyses showed that the upf mutations had widespread effects during culture on shoot-induction medium. In particular, the expression patterns of early auxin response genes, including those encoding AUXIN/INDOLE ACETIC ACID (AUX/IAA) family members, were significantly affected in the upf mutants. Also, the upregulation of shoot apical meristem-related transcription factor genes, such as CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON1 (CUC1) and CUC2, was inhibited in the mutants. Taken together, these results indicate that NMD-mediated transcriptomic regulation modulates the auxin response in plants and thus plays crucial roles in the early stages of shoot regeneration.
Project description:Plants are aerobic organisms that rely on molecular oxygen for respiratory energy production. Hypoxic conditions, with oxygen levels ranging between 1% and 5%, usually limit aerobic respiration and affect plant growth and development. Here, we demonstrate that hypoxic microenvironment induced by active cell proliferation during the two-step plant regeneration process intrinsically represses the regeneration competence of callus in Arabidopsis thaliana. Hypoxia-repressed plant regeneration was mediated by the RELATED TO APETALA 2.12 (RAP2.12) protein, a member of the Ethylene Response Factor VII (ERF-VII) family. The hypoxia-activated RAP2.12 protein promoted salicylic acid (SA) biosynthesis and defense responses, inhibiting pluripotency acquisition and de novo shoot regeneration in calli. RAP2.12 could bind directly to the SALICYLIC ACID INDUCTION DEFICIENT 2 (SID2) gene promoter and activate SA biosynthesis, repressing plant regeneration via a PLETHORA (PLT)-dependent pathway. The rap2.12 mutant calli exhibited enhanced shoot regeneration, which was impaired by SA treatment. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that cell proliferation-dependent hypoxic microenvironment reduces cellular pluripotency and plant regeneration through the RAP2.12–SID2 module.
Project description:Plants are aerobic organisms that rely on molecular oxygen for respiratory energy production. Hypoxic conditions, with oxygen levels ranging between 1% and 5%, usually limit aerobic respiration and affect plant growth and development. Here, we demonstrate that hypoxic microenvironment induced by active cell proliferation during the two-step plant regeneration process intrinsically represses the regeneration competence of callus in Arabidopsis thaliana. Hypoxia-repressed plant regeneration was mediated by the RELATED TO APETALA 2.12 (RAP2.12) protein, a member of the Ethylene Response Factor VII (ERF-VII) family. The hypoxia-activated RAP2.12 protein promoted salicylic acid (SA) biosynthesis and defense responses, inhibiting pluripotency acquisition and de novo shoot regeneration in calli. RAP2.12 could bind directly to the SALICYLIC ACID INDUCTION DEFICIENT 2 (SID2) gene promoter and activate SA biosynthesis, repressing plant regeneration via a PLETHORA (PLT)-dependent pathway. The rap2.12 mutant calli exhibited enhanced shoot regeneration, which was impaired by SA treatment. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that cell proliferation-dependent hypoxic microenvironment reduces cellular pluripotency and plant regeneration through the RAP2.12–SID2 module.
Project description:Plants form callus and regenerate new organs when incubated on phytohormone-containing media. While accumulating evidence suggests that these regenerative processes are governed by transcriptional networks orchestrating stress responses and developmental transitions, it remains unknown if post-translational regulatory mechanisms are involved in this process. Here, we find that SIZ1, which encodes an E3 ligase catalyzing attachment of the SMALL UBIQUITIN-LIKE MODIFIER (SUMO) to proteins, regulates wound-induced signal transduction and organ regeneration. We show that loss-of-function mutants for SIZ1 exhibit over-production of shoot meristems under in vitro tissue culture conditions, while this defect is rescued in a complementation line expressing pSIZ1::SIZ1. RNA-sequencing analysis revealed that siz1-2 mutant exhibits enhanced transcriptional responses to wound stress, resulting in the hyper-induction of over 500 genes immediately after wounding. Among them, we show that elevated level of WOUND INDUCED DEDIFFERENTIATION 1 (WIND1) and WIND2 contribute to enhanced shoot regeneration observed in siz1 mutants, as the dominant-negative WIND1-SRDX partly rescues this phenotype in siz1-3. Although compromised SIZ1 function does not modify transcription of genes implicated in auxin-induced callus formation and/or pluripotency acquisition, it does lead to enhanced induction of cytokinin-induced shoot meristem regulators like WUSCHEL (WUS), promoting the formation of WUS-expressing foci in explants. This study thus suggests that SIZ1 negatively regulates shoot regeneration in part by repressing wound-induced cellular reprogramming.
Project description:Global gene-expression profiles of WT and hag1 were generated by RNA seq to understand the role of HAG1 in de novo shoot regeneration.
Project description:Regeneration of transgenic cells remains a major obstacle to research and commercial deployment of transgenic plants for most species. Our aims are to improve knowledge of gene regulatory circuits important to meristem organization, and to identify regulatory genes that might be useful for improving the efficiency of regeneration during transformation. We analyzed gene expression during poplar regeneration using an Affymetrix GeneChip® array representing over 56,000 poplar transcripts. Experiment Overall Design: We focused on callus induction and shoot formation, thus sample RNAs were collected from tissues: prior to callus induction, 3 days and 15 days after callus induction, and 3 days and 8 days after the start of shoot induction. Experiment Overall Design: Two biological replicates were used for each of the five time points.