Project description:GRAS transcription factors are plant-specific proteins that play diverse roles in plant development and abiotic stress responses, over-expression of OsGRAS23, a GRAS gene in rice, showed improved drought resistance. To search the downstream genes of OsGRAS23, we performed microarray analysis of the OsGRAS23-overexpressing and wild-type plants under both normal and drought stress conditions using Affymetrix Rice Genome Genechip. 21-day-old plants of the OsGRAS23-overexpressing line OE1 as well as the wild-type plants were used in the drought treatment.
Project description:A cultivation facility that can assist users in controlling the soil water condition is needed for accurately phenotyping plants under drought stress in an artificial environment. Here we report the Internet of Things (IoT)-based pot system controlling optional treatment of soil water condition (iPOTs), an automatic irrigation system that mimics the drought condition in a growth chamber. The Wi-Fi-enabled iPOTs system allows water supply from the bottom of the pot, based on the soil water level set by the user, and automatically controls the soil water level at a desired depth. The iPOTs also allows users to monitor environmental parameters, such as soil temperature, air temperature, humidity, and light intensity, in each pot. To verify whether the iPOTs mimics the drought condition, we conducted a drought stress test on rice varieties and near-isogenic lines, with diverse root system architecture, using the iPOTs system installed in a growth chamber. Similar to the results of a previous drought stress field trial, the growth of shallow-rooted rice accessions was severely affected by drought stress compared with that of deep-rooted accessions. The microclimate data obtained using the iPOTs system increased the accuracy of plant growth evaluation. Transcriptome analysis revealed that pot positions in the growth chamber had little impact on plant growth. Together, these results suggest that the iPOTs system represents a reliable platform for phenotyping plants under drought stress.
Project description:As a major plant abiotic stress, drought stress suppresses crop yield performance severely. However, the trade-off between crop drought tolerance and yield performance becomes a great challenge in drought-resistant crop breeding. Several phytohormones have been reported to participate in plant drought response, including gibberellin (GA), which also plays an important role in plant growth and development. Using CRISPR technology, we constructed the null mutant of ZmGA20ox3, a key enzyme in GA biosynthesis. The null mutant plants show lower plant height and ear height with no yield loss under the normal condition than wild-type plants. Transcriptome analysis revealed that genes affected by ZmGA20ox3 were enriched in signal transduction and stress response processes. In addition to the decrease of GA, a significant increase of ABA and JA level were also detected in mutant plants. Compared with wild-type plants, the growth and ASI of mutant plants were less affected, and the yield loss was also reduced under drought conditions. These results suggest a potential role of ZmGA20ox3 in maize drought response. Our result shows that regulating GA biosynthesis is applicable for maize drought-resistant breeding.
2024-04-10 | GSE229138 | GEO
Project description:Root transcriptome under drought condition
Project description:Sucrose synthase (SUS), a key enzyme of sugar metabolism, plays an important role in the regulation of carbon partitioning in plant, and affects important agronomic traits and abiotic responses to adversity. However, the function of ZmSUS1 in plant drought tolerance is still unknown. In this study, the expression patterns of ZmSUS1 in different tissues and under drought stress were analyzed in maize (Zea mays L.). It was found that ZmSUS1 was highly expressed during kernel development but also in leaves and roots of maize, and ZmSUS1 was induced by drought stress. Homozygous transgenic maize lines of ZmSUS1 overexpressing increased the content and activity of SUS under drought stress and exhibited higher relative water content, proline and abscisic acid content in leaves. Specifically, the net photosynthetic rate and the soluble sugar contents including sucrose、glucose、fructose、UDP-glucose and ADP-glucose in transgenic plants was significantly improved after drought stress. RNA-seq analysis showed that overexpressing of ZmSUS1 mainly affected the expression level of carbon metabolism-related genes, especially the expression level of sucrose metabolism-related genes including ZmSUS、ZmSPS and ZmINV were significantly up-regulated in transgenic maize. Overall, these results suggested that ZmSUS1 improved drought tolerance by regulating sucrose metabolism and increasing soluble sugar content, and endowing transgenic maize with higher relative water content and photosynthesis levels, which can be served as a new gene candidate for cultivating drought resistant maize varieties.
Project description:High mobility group (HMG) proteins play an important role in regulation of gene transcription through modulate the structure of DNA. In this study, OsHMGB707, a HMG gene localized in rice drought resistance QTL interval, was isolated and the function on rice stress resistance was identified. Overexpression of OsHMGB707 significantly enhanced the drought resistance of the transgenic rice plants, whereas the OsHMGB707-RNAi transgenic rice plants exhibited slightly decrease in drought stress tolerance. To search the downstream genes regulated by OsHMGB707, we performed microarray analysis of the OsHMGB707-overexpressing, OsHMGB707-RNAi and wild-type plants under both normal conditions using Affymetrix Rice Genome Genechip. 21-day-old plants of the OsHMGB707-overexpressing line OE1, OsHMGB707-RNAi line RNAi1 as well as the wild-type plants were used in the normal condition.
Project description:Plasma membrane NADPH oxidases (NOXs) are major producers of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plant cells under normal growth and stress conditions. Rice NOXs have multiple homologs but their functional mechanisms are largely unknown. We used microarrays to detail the global gene expression profiles in rice wild-type (WT, Dongjin) and a mutant osnox2 which loss the functions of OsNOX2 protein under drought and identified distinct classes of genes between the two type rice plants under both normal growth and drought stressed conditions. The youngest fully expanded leaves from 2.5-month-old WT and osnox2 plants (three replicates each), grown under normal growth (soil moisture, 47.3%) and drought conditions (soil moisture, 8.5%), were used for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. Control: normal growth condition; Drought: drought stress condition.
Project description:In order to revael the relationship between gene expression and plant phenotype under drought, we conducted transcriptome analysis under six drought and control conditions.
Project description:The Overexpression of AtCAMTA5 leads to higher plant weight and seed weight as compare to Col-0. Under drought condition overexpression lines had reduce water loss,high water use efficiency decline in photosynthesis contributes to 95% survivability wherase Col-0 and camta5 showed enhance sensitivity.Microarray analysis revealed that AtCAMTA5 regulates genes enriched with CAMTA recognition motif like ANAC19, SPL16, aminotransferase, chitinase, MAPK7, SnRK2.2, E3-ligase, RUBISCO, PSI and PSII, etc which were involved in stress response, development, protein modification and photosynthesis. We used affymatrix expression analysis to validate role of CAMTA5 under drought stress along with physiological and biochemical assay.
Project description:Plants have evolved a sophisticated defense system to survive under natural drought conditions. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are small noncoding RNAs that act as a post-transcriptional regulator in the environmental stress response and developmental process. Although many studies have reported the involvement of the miRNAs in drought response, molecular mechanisms by which miRNAs confer drought tolerance remain elusive. Here, we show that MIR171f, a member of MIR171 gene family, is mainly expressed in response to drought stress and regulate transcript levels of SCARECROW-LIKE6-I (SCL6-I) and SCL6-II. The SCL6 genes are known to be involved in shoot branching and flag leaf morphology. The MIR171f-overexpressing (MIR171f-OE) transgenic plants showed reduced drought symptoms as compared with non-transgenic (NT) control plants under both field drought and PEG-mediated dehydration stress conditions. Transcriptome analysis using the MIR171f-OE and mir171f-K/O mutants revealed that MIR171f regulates the expression of flavonoid biosynthesis genes, consequently leading to drought tolerance. Flavonoid biosynthesis genes were up-regulated in MIR171f-OE plants as compared with NT control plants under both normal and drought conditions. Together, our findings demonstrated that MIR171f plays an important role in plant drought-tolerance mechanism by regulating transcript levels of SCL6-I and SCL6-II.