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Project description:It has long been recognized that species occupy a specific ecological niche within their ecosystem. The ecological niche is defined as the number of conditions and resources that limit species distribution. Within their ecological niche, species do not exist in a single physiological state but in a number of states we call the Natural Operating Range. In this paper we link ecological niche theory to physiological ecology by measuring gene expression levels of collembolans exposed to various natural conditions. The soil-dwelling collembolan Folsomia candida was exposed to 26 natural soils with different soil characteristics (soil type, land use, practice, etc). The animals were exposed for two days and gene expression levels were measured. The main factor found to regulate gene expression was the soil type (sand or clay), in which 18.5% of the measured genes were differentially expressed. Gene Ontology analysis showed animals exposed to sandy soils experience general stress, affecting cell homeostasis and replication. Multivariate analysis linking soil chemical data to gene expression data revealed that soil fertility influences gene expression. Land-use and practice had less influence on gene expression; only forest soils showed a different expression pattern. A variation in gene expression variation analysis showed overall low variance in gene expression. The large difference in response to soil type was caused by the soil physicochemical properties where F. candida experiences clay soils and sandy soils as very different from each other. This collembolan prefers fertile soils with high organic matter content, as soil fertility was found to correlate with gene expression and animals exposed to sandy soils (which, in general, have lower organic matter content) experience more general stress. Finally, we conclude that there is no such thing as a fixed physiological state for animals in their ecological niche and the boundary between the ecological niche and a stressed state depends on the genes/pathways investigated.
2011-02-15 | GSE21213 | GEO
Project description:Metaproteome analysis of a forest soil and a potting soil. Different protein extraction methods were compared to investigate protein extraction efficiency and compatibility with sample downstream processing.
2015-03-26 | PRD000542 | Pride
Project description:Arabidopsis plants were grown in plastic pots filled with peat moss for 3 weeks (principal growth stage 1.07-1.08) under a 16 h light/8 h dark regimen (40 ± 10 ?mol photons/m2/s) at 22 C.Dehydration treatment: The 3-week-old plants were grown for 2 or 3 days without watering. To obtain accurate results, we carefully raised single plants in Petri dishes, each containing an equal amount of soil. Soil moisture contents were calculated from soil dry weight. Untreated; the soil moisture content was 84.3%. Under dehydration, on the second day, the soil moisture content was 51.1%. Under dehydration, on the third day, the moisture content was 11.6%.
2009-08-07 | E-MEXP-2174 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Young Fagus sylvatica trees (approximately 7 to 8 years) were collected from a natural regeneration beech forest. The trees were excavated with intact soil cores, roots and top organic layer. The trees were then kept outdoors at the Department of Forest Botany, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Plants were protected from rain, and light conditions were matched to those of the natural stand using a shading net; otherwise, plants were exposed to natural climatic conditions. The soil moisture was regularly measured; plants were watered with deionized water as needed to keep soil moisture close to the original conditions. Trees was randomly relocated on a weekly basis throughout the experiment to avoid biasses caused by location or light effects. After 21 weeks, a treatment was applied to understand the physiological mechanisms of inorganic nitrogen uptake and assimilation under conditions of an inorganic nitrogen saturated forest simulation: Plants were fertilized with either a 20 mM solution of KNO3, a 20 mM solution of NH4Cl, or demineralized water (control) for 2 days. On the third day, the trees were harvested. Root tips were immediately shock-frozen in liquid nitrogen and used for RNA extraction.
2020-12-14 | E-MTAB-8931 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:To identify genes that are drought-responsive we conducted drought (soil water depletion) experiments on 3-month-old *P*. *trichocarpa *clonal plants. The plants undergo five different stages based on the appearance of their shoots and leaves during the drought experiments. Stage I: The shoot and leaves are green, and the leaves are well-spread. Stage II: The leaves are droopy. Stage III: The shoot is droopy, and the leaves are partially dry. Stage IV: The leaves are brown and totally dry. Stage V: The shoot is brown. With fully irrigation, the soil water content is 74% and the xylem water content is 80.6%. Plants in Stage III (Day 5) are under a mild drought state. The soil and xylem water content in Stage III dropped to 33% and 75.3%, respectively. Stage IV (Day 6-10) is a severe drought state where the soil and xylem water content continued decreasing to 29% and 74.3%, respectively in Day 7. The stressed plants from Stage I-IV could all recover in 3 days after rehydration, but the plants in Stage V could not recover after rehydration.
2018-12-27 | GSE79401 | GEO
Project description:It has long been recognized that species occupy a specific ecological niche within their ecosystem. The ecological niche is defined as the number of conditions and resources that limit species distribution. Within their ecological niche, species do not exist in a single physiological state but in a number of states we call the Natural Operating Range. In this paper we link ecological niche theory to physiological ecology by measuring gene expression levels of collembolans exposed to various natural conditions. The soil-dwelling collembolan Folsomia candida was exposed to 26 natural soils with different soil characteristics (soil type, land use, practice, etc). The animals were exposed for two days and gene expression levels were measured. The main factor found to regulate gene expression was the soil type (sand or clay), in which 18.5% of the measured genes were differentially expressed. Gene Ontology analysis showed animals exposed to sandy soils experience general stress, affecting cell homeostasis and replication. Multivariate analysis linking soil chemical data to gene expression data revealed that soil fertility influences gene expression. Land-use and practice had less influence on gene expression; only forest soils showed a different expression pattern. A variation in gene expression variation analysis showed overall low variance in gene expression. The large difference in response to soil type was caused by the soil physicochemical properties where F. candida experiences clay soils and sandy soils as very different from each other. This collembolan prefers fertile soils with high organic matter content, as soil fertility was found to correlate with gene expression and animals exposed to sandy soils (which, in general, have lower organic matter content) experience more general stress. Finally, we conclude that there is no such thing as a fixed physiological state for animals in their ecological niche and the boundary between the ecological niche and a stressed state depends on the genes/pathways investigated. Test animals were exposed to 26 natural soils + 2 control soils. 4 biological replicates per soil containing 25 grams of soil and 30 23-day-old animals per replicate, RNA was isolated after two days of exposure. for the micro-array hybridization design we made use of an interwoven loop design. from the four replicates per soil two were labeled with Cy3 and 2 with Cy5. It was made sure that now two replicates of the same soil were ever hybridized against the same soil.
2011-02-15 | E-GEOD-21213 | biostudies-arrayexpress