Project description:Lotus japonicus is a model legume broadly used to study transcriptome regulation under different stress conditions and microorganism interaction. Understanding how this model plant respond gainst alkaline stress will certainly help to develop more tolerant cultivars in economically important Lotus species as well as in other legumes. In order to uncover the most important response mechanisms activated during alkaline stress, we explored by microarray analysis the transcriptome regulation occurring in the phenotypically contrasting ecotypes MG-20 and Gifu B-129 of L. japonicus after 21 days of alkaline stress.
Project description:To investigate the rapid adaptation mechanism of Bacillus thuringiensis in an alkaline environment, we have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify the difference of gene expression between normal condition and alkaline condition.