Project description:Abstract: In order to understand the expression patterns of miRNAs in alfalfa under alkali stress, small RNA sequencing was performed on alfalfa roots at different time points under alkali stress, and miRNAs were identified and analyzed.
2023-05-08 | GSE231697 | GEO
Project description:Root endophytic bacteria of different peach varieties
Project description:Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a forage legume with significant agricultural value worldwide. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are key components of post-transcriptional gene regulation and essentially control almost all aspect of plant growth and development. Although miRNAs have been reported from alfalfa but their expression profiles in different tissues and novel miRNAs as well as their targets have not been confirmed in this plant species. Therefore, we sequenced small RNAs in whole plantlets, shoots and roots of three different alfalfa genotypes (Altet-4, NECS-141 and NF08ALF06) to identify tissue-specific profiles. After comprehensive analysis using bioinformatics methods, we have identified 100 miRNA families, of which 21 belongs to the highly conserved families whereas the remaining 79 families are conserved between M. truncatula and M. sativa. The profiles of the six highly expressed conserved miRNA families (miR156, 159, 166, 319, 396, 398,) were relatively similar between the plantlets, roots and shoots of three genotypes. Contrastingly, the differenecs were robust between shoots and roots for miR160 and miR408 levels, which were low in roots compared to shoots. The study also has identified 17 novel miRNAs that also differed in their abundanecs between tissues of the alfalfa genotypes. Additionally, we have generated and analyzed the degradome libraries from three alfalfa genotypes that has confirmed 69 genes as targets for 31 miRNA families in alfalfa. The identification of conserved and novel miRNAs as well as their targets in different tissues of three genotypes not only enhanced our understanding of miRNA-mediated gene regulation in alfalfa but could also be useful for practical applications in alfalfa as well as related legume species.
Project description:Two alfalfa varieties, 'Chilean' (M. sativa ssp. sativa var. Chilean, drought sensitive) and 'Wisfal' (M. sativa ssp. falcata var. Wisfal, drought tolerant), with contrasting water use efficiency were subjected to water withholding for 11 days followed by re-watering. Samples were taken for well-watered plants and plants after five, eight, eleven days of drought stress as well as plants after recovery for one day following drought stress. Roots and shoots were sampled and analyzed separately by expression profiling using Affymetrix Medicago GeneChip.
Project description:12plex_medicago_2014_02 - nar nodule vs root transcriptome - which are the genes differentially expressed in alfalfa spontaneous (non rhizobium-infected) nodules vs. control roots? - biological material: aeroponically grown cuttings of a Medicago sativa (alfalfa) accession that produces empty nodules when nitrogen-starved. Samples for transcriptome comparison: isolated NAR nodules (10 days post N-starvation) vs. roots of the same plants (pools of 3 roots).
Project description:Two alfalfa varieties contrasting in heat tolerance, MS30 and MS37, were used for this experiment, and their seeds were provided by Sichuan Academy of Grassland Sciences. After two months of growth, both alfalfa varieties grow into adult-plants. Select 10-15 healthy plants with consistent growth to remain in each nutritional bowl. All materials are transferred to artificial climate boxes for high temperature stress treatment. The light cycle is still the day/night cycle:16/8h. According to the results of a prior experiment and based on the relevant report, the treatment temperature was set to 20℃, 25℃, 30℃, 35℃, 40℃ and 4℃, which is a gradient upward trend. Among them, alfalfa growing at 20°C were used as the control (non-HT stress). All alfalfa varieties were treated at each temperature gradient for 7 days and the leaves was collected for the determination of physiological indicators. Moreover, the physiological conditions of the plants and the humidity of the climate box were observed at any time. water the plants properly once a day, and the alfalfa special fertilizer was applied once in each cycle of temperature stress treatment to ensure the water and nutrition demand of the plant. Based on the results of the above experiment, some physiological responses demonstrated that most alfalfa varieties showed the most significant variation at 20℃, 35℃ and 43℃. Therefore, leaf samples collected from plants after exposure to the rising temperature 7 days were harvested for further TMT quantitative proteomic analysis.
Project description:Abstract: In order to clarify the response mechanism of alfalfa under alkali stress, the transcriptome of roots was sequenced at different time points after stress and the expression patterns of all genes were analyzed.
Project description:In order to investigate the diurnal oscillations of ruminal bacteria, and their responses to the changes in different feeding patterns, we conducted an animal experiment by feeding the sheep ad libitum with a hay-based diet (50% of alfalfa hay and 46% of oats hay) and a grain-based diet (45% of corn meal and 11% of soybean meal) for 30 days, and ruminal fluid samples were collected at six different timepoints from T2 to T22 in one day, and the composition and diversity of the bacterial communities in rumen microbiomes of the sheep in the Grain-diet and Hay-diet groups at different timepoints were analyzed through 16S rRNA sequencing.