Project description:A heat and drought tolerant rice cultivar (N22) was grown in the field under control and drought conditions during the dry season in 2013. Drought was applied during early grain filling and resulted in simultaneous heat stress, leading to reduced grain yield and quality. Total RNA was extracted from developing seeds under stress and control (fully flooded) conditions and RNA-seq analysis was performed. These samples are a part of a bigger experiment analysing the responses of three contrasting rice cultivars (N22, Dular, Anjali) to combined heat and drought stress including different organs (developing seeds, flag leaves, flowering spikelets) and developmental stages (early grain filling, flowering) at the transcriptomic level.
Project description:This study aims to provide a transcriptomics dataset for field grown rice plants subjected to mild drought concentrating on the two parents of a mapping population, Bala and Azucena. Plants were grown in 1.2 m2 plots under flooded conditions in Wuhan, China being sown on 2nd June 2007. Starting at 59 days after sowing, drought was imposed by withholding water, while a set of control plots had continued flooding conditions. The drought was imposed for 24 days during which time a small amount of water was added on 3 occasions to raise soil moisture to 30% by volume. After 24 days the second youngest fully expanded leaf was taken and gene expression analysis performed. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying drought in rice plants with the aim of using the data to identify candidate genes for drought avoidance QTLs detected within the a rice mapping population.
Project description:This study aims to provide a transcriptomics dataset for field grown rice plants subjected to mild drought concentrating on the two parents of a mapping population, Bala and Azucena. Plants were grown in 1.2 m2 plots under flooded conditions in Wuhan, China being sown on 2nd June 2007. Starting at 59 days after sowing, drought was imposed by withholding water, while a set of control plots had continued flooding conditions. The drought was imposed for 24 days during which time a small amount of water was added on 3 occasions to raise soil moisture to 30% by volume. After 24 days the second youngest fully expanded leaf was taken and gene expression analysis performed. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying drought in rice plants with the aim of using the data to identify candidate genes for drought avoidance QTLs detected within the a rice mapping population. Two rice cultivars, Bala and Azucena, were grown in 1.2 m2 plots under flooded conditions in Wuhan, China being sown on 2nd June 2007. Starting at 59 days after sowing, drought was imposed by withholding water, while a set of control plots had continued flooding conditions. At 2 pm on the 83rd day after sowing (after 24 days of drought) the second youngest fully expanded leaf was taken off three plants in two plots per block, the leaves had the top and bottom 4 cm removed and the central portion of the leaf was placed in a bag and then into liquid N2. For the controls there was only one plot of the genotypes per block. There was one bag for each block and three replicate blocks. A total of 6 droughted leaf samples (3 Bala and 3 Azucena) and six control leaf samples (3 Bala and 3 Azucena) were collected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.
Project description:An indica rice cultivar IET8585 (Ajaya), resists diverse races of the Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae (Xoo) pathogen attack, and is often cultivated as bacterial leaf blight (blb) resistant check in India. Earlier we reported a recessive blb resistance gene mapped to the long arm of chromosome 5 in IET8585. To further understand the mechanism of recessive and durable resistance response, two indica rice genotypes namely, i) IET8585 (Ajaya), a disease resistant indica veriety from India and ii) IR24, a bacterial leaf blight disease susceptible genotype were selected for this study. We used the 22K rice Oligoarray from Agilent technologies to study the transcript profile in the leaves of the two contrasting rice genotypes under inoculated and un-inoculated conditions during seedling stage. Keywords: Bacterial leaf blight disease resistance mechanism
Project description:Rice plants (Oryza sativa L. cv. Nipponbare) were grown in plastic pots filled with nutrient soil for 2 weeks under flooded lowland conditions with a 12-h light (28C)/12-h dark (25C) regimen (ca. 1500 umol photons mM-^V2 sM-^V1). The plants were cold treated by transfer from 28C to 10C with growth for 1 day.
Project description:Rice plants (Oryza sativa L. cv. Nipponbare) were grown in plastic pots filled with nutrient soil for 2 weeks under flooded lowland conditions with a 12-h light (28C)/12-h dark (25C) regimen (ca. 1500 umol photons mM-^V2 sM-^V1). The plants were cold treated by transfer from 28C to 10C with growth for 2 days.
Project description:Rice plants (Oryza sativa L. cv. Nipponbare) were grown in plastic pots filled with nutrient soil for 2 weeks under flooded lowland conditions with a 12-h light (28C)/12-h dark (25C) regimen (ca. 1500 umol photons mM-^V2 sM-^V1). The plants were subjected to dehydration treatment by growth at 28C without watering for either 2 days until the soil moisture content was 18.7% (w/w; SD = 1.3%).