Project description:Paper mulberry as a valuable woody species has a well chilling tolerance. In this study, phosphoproteomic analysis in combination with physiological measurement and mRNA quantification were employed to explore the molecular mechanism of chilling (4 °C) tolerance in paper mulberry. After chilling for 6 hours, there were 427 significant changed phosphoproteins detected in paper mulberry seedlings without obvious physiological injury. When obvious physiological injury occurred after chilling for 48 hours, a total of 611 phosphoproteins were found significantly change at phosphorylation level. According to 9 phosphorylation motifs extracted by Motif-X analysis, MAPKs, CDPKs, CDKs and CKs were considered as the primary upstream protein kinases. Results of GO analysis showed that phosphoproteins were mainly responsible for signal transduction, protein modification and translation during chilling. Additionally, transport and cellular component organization were respectively enriched after chilling for 6 and 48 hours. Based on the analysis of protein-protein interaction network, a protein kinases and phosphatases hub protein was thought as the key of phosphorylation regulation, which probably modulates cross-talk between Ca2+, BR, ABA and ethylene mediated signaling pathways. Together with results, we concluded a schematic chilling tolerance mechanism at phosphorylation level.
2018-04-20 | PXD005516 | Pride
Project description:Wilted and unwilted paper mulberry silage
Project description:Human utilization of the mulberry-silkworm interaction started at least 5,000 years ago and greatly influenced world history through the Silk Road. Complementing the silkworm genome sequence, here we describe the genome of a mulberry species (Morus notabilis C. K. Schneider). In the 330 Mb genome assembly of M. notabilis, we identified 128 Mb of repetitive sequences and 29,338 genes, 60.8% of which were supported by transcriptome sequencing. Mulberry gene sequences appear to evolve ~3 times faster than other Rosales, perhaps facilitating its spread to Europe, Africa, and America. It is among few eudicots but several Rosales not preserving genome duplications in more than 100 million years – however neopolyploid series in mulberry and several others suggest that new duplications may confer benefits. Strikingly, five predicted mulberry miRNAs were found in the hemolymph and silkglands of silkworm, suggesting profound molecular level interactions that promise to expand knowledge of plant-herbivore relationship which constitute key elements of most terrestrial habitats. In addition, we investigated the characters of hemolymph small RNA. small mRNA profiles of silkworm hemolymph in the fifth instar day-5 silkworm were generated by deep sequencing, in twice, using Illumina Hiseq 2000.