Project description:Purpose: This RNA-Seq study aims on elucidate the major trends in the transcriptional profile of soybean embryonic axes during germination. Methods: Soybean seeds were germinated in soaked cotton at 28ºC. In addition to dry seeds, seeds were harvested at 3, 6, 12, 24 hours after imbibition. Then the embryonic axes were separated from the cotyledons for RNA extraction. For each biological sample, 20 seeds were used. Results: Identification of genes and pathways involved in metabolism, hormone signaling and transcriptional regulation.
Project description:Seeds germination is seriously sensitive to salt stress. The mechanism in response to salt stress during seed germination is still little known. In this study, two genotypes of hulless barley lk621 and lk53 were selected to investigate the molecular mechanism of seeds salinity response during germination stage through RNA-seq and iTRAQ technologies
Project description:We identified a regulator of Arabidopsis thaliana seed germination: FLOE1 (AT4G28300). We used RNA-seq to uncover genes that are diffenrentially regulated in dry seeds, imbibed seeds and seeds imbibed in 220mM NaCl.
Project description:To establish the basis for understanding molecular mechanism of seed germination response to temperature, we analyzed transcriptomes in freshly harvested dormant and dry stored after-ripened seeds. The after-ripened seeds started to show visible germination from 36h after the start of imbibition, and almost all the seeds germinated after 3 days. The freshly harvested seeds stayed dormant by imbibition at 26°C, and germination of the after-ripened seeds was almost completely inhibited at 34°C. Total RNA was prepared from 0 (dry), 6 and 24h imbibed seeds to find regulatory genes of seed dormancy and germination.
Project description:Seeds are highly resilient to the external environment, which allow plants to persist in unpredictable and unfavorable conditions. Some plant species have adopted a bet-hedging strategy to germinate a variable fraction of seeds in any given condition, and this could be explained by population-based threshold models. Here, in the model plant Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) we induced secondary dormancy to address the transcriptional heterogeneity among seeds that leads to binary germination/non-germination outcomes. We developed a single seed RNA-seq strategy that allowed us to observe a reduction in seed transcriptional heterogeneity as seeds enter stress conditions, followed by an increase during recovery. We identified groups of genes whose expression showed a specific pattern through a time course and used these groups to position the individual seeds along the transcriptional gradient of germination competence. In agreement, transcriptomes of dormancy-deficient seeds (mutant of DELAY OF GERMINATION 1 gene) showed a shift towards higher values of the germination competence index. Interestingly, a significant fraction of genes with variable expression encoded translation-related factors. In summary, interrogating hundreds of single seed transcriptomes during secondary dormancy-inducing treatment revealed variability among the transcriptomes that could result from the distribution of population-based sensitivity thresholds. Our results also showed that single seed RNA-seq is the method of choice for analyzing seed bet-hedging-related phenomena.
Project description:During seed germination, desiccation tolerance is lost in the radicle with progressing radicle protrusion and seedling establishment. This process is accompanied by comprehensive changes of the metabolome and proteome. Germination of Arabidopsis seeds was investigated over 72 h with special focus on the heat-stable proteome including late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins together with changes of primary metabolites. Six metabolites in dry seeds known to be important for seed longevity decreased during germination and seedling establishment, while all other metabolites increased simultaneously with activation of growth and development. Thermo-stable proteins were associated with a multitude of biological processes. In the heat-stable proteome a relatively similar proportion of fully ordered and fully intrinsically disordered proteins (IDP) was discovered. Highly disordered proteins were found to be associated with functional categories development, protein, RNA and stress. As expected, the majority of LEA proteins decreased during germination and seedling establishment. However, four germination-specific dehydrins were identified, not present in dry seeds. A network analysis of proteins, metabolites and amino acids generated during the course of germination revealed a highly connected LEA protein network.
Project description:We identified a regulator of Arabidopsis thaliana seed germination: FLOE1 (AT4G28300). We used RNA-seq to uncover genes that are differentially regulated in dry seeds, imbibed seeds and seeds imbibed in 220mM NaCl in mutant lines complemented with a ΔDS deletion version of FLOE1 (ΔDS) compared to mutants complemented with a WT version of FLOE1 (+WT).
Project description:au14-10_wd40 - effet of light on translatome of arabidopsis seeds during germination - Does light regulates germination via polysome association ? - At harvest seeds are dormant.They stay dormant if stored at -20°C.A.Th dormant seeds dont germinate at 25°C in darkness.Total RNA and polysomal RNA (polysomal fractions purified on sucrose gradients)were extracted from imbibed seeds for 20h at 22°C in darkness and light(3 biological replicates). Transcriptome and translatome are compared for light vs dark for 20h of imbibition. In silico comparison will allow to compare transcriptome and translatome for each type of sample.
2017-02-01 | GSE93181 | GEO
Project description:RNA-seq of quinoa seeds before and after germination
Project description:ngs2018_10_ethylene-effect of ethylene rna-seq-what are the effects of ethylene on mRNA metabolism during germination-seeds were imbibed at 25°c in darkness ± C2H4 and RNA was extracted after 6, 16 and 24 h of imbibition