Project description:We take the two year old plant for sampling.Use the Affymetrix poplar gene chip to elucidate the gene functions and mechanisms in Populus tomentosa shoot apex and mature xylem. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression in shoot apex and mature xylem. Populus tomentosa shoot apex and mature xylem were taken for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.CB2009304-C and CB2009304-D from shoot apex, CB2009304-G and CB2009304-H from mature xylem.
Project description:miRNAs play important roles in every aspect of plant development. Small RNA regulation confers sensitivity and robustness onto gene regulatory networks, and the morphogen-like readout of small RNA mobility gradients yields sharply delineated domains of target gene expression. However, how the spatiotemporal patterns of miRNA activity are attained is less well understood. We used the high-resolution maize shoot apex transcriptome atlas (Knauer et al., 2019) together with data from small RNA-Seq, PARE analysis, small RNA in-situ hybridization, and RNAseq of weak dcl1 mutant tissues to demonstrate that miRNA accumulation and function during development is regulated in a tiissue dependent manner at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level.
Project description:We take the two year old plant for sampling.Use the Affymetrix poplar gene chip to elucidate the gene functions and mechanisms in Populus tomentosa shoot apex and mature xylem. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression in shoot apex and mature xylem.
Project description:The cucumber is one of the most important vegetables worldwide and is used as a research model for study of phloem transport, sex determination and temperature-photoperiod physiology. The shoot apex is the most important plant tissue in which the cell fate and organ meristems have been determined. In this study, a series of whole-genome small RNA, degradome and transcriptome analyses were performed on cucumber shoot apical tissues treated with high vs. low temperature and a long vs. short photoperiod.
Project description:Flowering of several plant species is induced by exposure to specific photoperiods that promote the expression of florigenic proteins in the leaves and their subsequent translocation to the shoot apex, where they commit the meristem to a reproductive fate. Transition to reproductive growth at the apex is often accompanied by stem elongation, to expose flowers above the leaves and facilitate fertilization. However, how growth and inflorescence formation are coupled and how photoperiodic signals coordinate these processes at the apex is still unclear. We studied these mechanisms in rice, a short day plant. Here, we show that HEADING DATE 3a (Hd3a) and RICE FLOWERING LOCUS T 1 (RFT1), encoding components of the rice florigenic signal, are sufficient to repress expression of PREMATURE INTERNODE ELONGATION 1 (PINE1) at the shoot apex during the transition to flowering, thus promoting culm elongation. PINE1 encodes a nuclear C2H2 zinc finger transcriptional repressor that controls the mRNA abundance of GA3ox2, a gibberellin (GA) biosynthetic gene. These data uncover the existence of a regulatory network coordinating multiple aspects of phase transition, and indicate that GA-induced growth and activity of florigenic proteins at the shoot apex need to be strictly coupled.
Project description:Genetic changes involved in the juvenile-to-adult transition in the shoot apex of Olea europaea L. occurs years before the first flowering.