Project description:To evaluate the roles of gene regulation in Oryza sativa leaf, dynamic profiles of transcriptome were investigated in Oryza sativa L. spp. indica with different treatments, the aerial tissues of one-month-old plants from four different areas (groups 1–4) were treated with 0, 40 mL of 25% azoxystrobin, 0.01 g of VdAL, or 40 mL of 25% azoxystrobin plus 0.01 g VdAL, respectively.
Project description:Here, we present OryzaPG-DB, a rice proteome database based on shotgun proteogenomics, which incorporates the genomic features of experimental shotgun proteomics data. This version of the database was created from the results of 27 nanoLC-MS/MS runs on a hybrid ion trap-orbitrap mass spectrometer, which offers high accuracy for analyzing tryptic digests from undifferentiated cultured rice cells. Peptides were identified by searching the product ion spectra against the protein, cDNA, transcript and genome databases from Michigan State University, and were mapped to the rice genome. Approximately 3200 genes were covered by these peptides and 40 of them contained novel genomic features. Users can search, download or navigate the database per chromosome, gene, protein, cDNA or transcript and download the updated annotations in standard GFF3 format, with visualization in PNG format. In addition, the database scheme of OryzaPG was designed to be generic and can be reused to host similar proteogenomic information for other species. OryzaPG is the first proteogenomics-based database of the rice proteome, providing peptide-based expression profiles, together with the corresponding genomic origin, including the annotation of novelty for each peptide.
Project description:The goal of this work is to identify the gene regulatory hubs that control nitrogen-use in Oryza sativa, one of the most important crop plants, by using a combination of genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology approaches. Here, we evaluate the role of bZIP1, a transcription factor involved in light and nitrogen sensing, by exposing wild-type (WT) and bZIP1 T-DNA null mutant plants to a combinatorial space of N and L treatment conditions. We use ANOVA analysis combined with clustering and Boolean modeling, to evaluate the role of bZIP1 in mediating L and N signaling genome-wide. We also study the interspecies conservation, comparing rice with Arabidopsis thaliana nitrogen transcriptomes, to help identify conserved nitrogen regulation.
Project description:Lysine acetylation is a dynamic and reversible post-translational modification that plays an imporant role in the gene transcription regulation. Here, we report high quality proteome-scale data for lysine-acetylation sites and proteins in rice (Oryza sativa). A total of 1337 Kac sites in 716 Kac proteins with diverse biological functions and subcellular localizations were identified in rice seedlings.
Project description:Gibberellins control a wide range of aspects of plant growth and development. Although a series of mutant of the signaling pathway has been identified, the global regulatory network underlying gibberellin signal transduction has not been revealed. To address this issue, we performed microarray analysis with rice gibberellin signaling mutants, gid1, gid2, slr, and the parental cultivar Taichung 65.
Project description:We characterized a rice (Oryza sativa L ssp. indica cultivar 3037) semi-dwarf mutant sd37, in which CYP96B4 gene (Cytochrome P450 96B subfamily) was identified as the target gene by map-based cloning and complementation test. A point mutation in CYP96B4 leads to a substitution of Thr to Lys in the SRS2 region. The sd37 leaves, panicles and seeds are all smaller compared with those of wild-type, and histological analysis showed that the decreased cell number was the main reason for the dwarf phenotype. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying cellularisation and identified distinct classes of up- and down- regulated genes during this process.
Project description:5 leaves old rice plantlets were infected with Magnaporthe grisea spores and zero, two hours and twenty four houres after infection samples were collected
Project description:RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 (RDR6) is a core component of the small RNA biogenesis pathway, but its function in meiosis is unclear. Herein we report a new allele of OsRDR6 (Osrdr6-mei), which causes meiosis-specific phenotype in rice. In Osrdr6-mei, meiotic DSB formation was blocked to some extent. We further created a biallelic mutant, Osrdr6-bi, by crossing Osrdr6-mei with a knock out mutant, Osrdr6-edit (Osrdr6-edi). In Osrdr6-bi, 24 univalents were observed at diakinesis, and no histone H2AX phosphorylation (γH2AX) foci was detected in meiocytes, indicating that OsRDR6 is crucial for meiotic DSB formation. Compared with the wild type, the number of 21-nt small RNAs was dramatically reduced, while the number of 24-nt small RNAs was significantly increased in Osrdr6-mei. And thousands of DMRs discovered in Osrdr6-mei, implying that OsRDR6 plays an essential role on DNA methylation, especially CHH methylation. Meanwhile, the transcriptome data showed that 457 genes were down-regulated in the mutant; including three genes related to DSB formation: OsSDS, P31comet and CRC1. Interestingly, the increased 24-nt small RNA level surrounding down-regulated genes was largely associated with the silencing of these genes, while DMRs were rarely related to them. In summary, we speculated that the small RNA levels are disordered in Osrdr6 mutants, which may lead to the defection of DSB formation.
Project description:Cellularization is a key event during the development of the endosperm. Our understanding of the developmental regulation of cellularization has been limited for plants other than Arabidopsis. We found that the activation of OsbZIP76 coincided with the initiation of cellularization of rice. Either knockdown or knockout of OsbZIP76 led to precocious cellularization. Many genes involved in endosperm development or starch biosynthesis were prematurely activated in the caryopsis at two days after fertilization. The results implied that OsbZIP76 is involved in the regulation of cellularization in rice. As a putative transcription factor, OsbZIP76 alone lacked transcriptional activation activity. However, it was able to interact with OsNF-YB9 and OsNF-YB1, two nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) family transcription factors, both in yeast and in planta. OsbZIP76 and OsNF-YB9 showed similar endosperm-preferential expression patterns and the transiently expressed proteins were colocalized in the epidermal cells of tobacco. As with osnf-yb1 mutants, the osbzip76 mutants showed reduced seed size and reduced apparent amylose content of the seeds. We also confirmed that OsbZIP76 is an imprinted gene in rice, the expression of which depended on the genetic background. Our results suggested that OsbZIP76 is an endosperm-expressed imprinted gene to regulate development of the endosperm in rice.
Project description:Changes in patterns of gene expression are believed to be responsible for the phenotypic differences within and between species. Although the evolutionary significance of functional mutations has been emphasized in rice domestication, little is known about the differences in gene regulation underlying the phenotypic diversification among rice varieties. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small regulatory RNAs that play crucial roles in regulating post-transcriptional gene expression. Here, we studied the variation in the expression of both miRNAs and mRNA transcripts in three indica and three japonica rice varieties using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) to examine the miRNA regulatory effect on target gene expression in rice. In total, 71.0%, 9.2%, and 1.5% of the expressed mature miRNAs showed tissue, subspecies, and tissue-subspecies interaction-biased expression. Most of these differentially expressed miRNAs are evolutionarily weakly conserved. To examine the miRNA regulatory effect on global gene expression under endogenous conditions, we performed pair-wise correlation coefficient analyses on the expression levels of 240 mature miRNAs and 1178 messenger RNAs (mRNAs) both globally and for each specific miRNA-mRNA pair. We found that the deeply conserved miRNAs can significantly decrease the target mRNA abundance. In addition, a total of 109 miRNA-mRNA pairs were identified as significantly correlated pairs (Adjusted p<0.01). Of those, 41 pairs showed positive correlations, while 68 pairs showed negative correlations. Functional analysis elucidated that these mRNAs belonged to different biological pathways that could regulate the stress response, metabolic processes, and rice development. In conclusion, the joint interrogation of miRNA and mRNA expression profiles in this study proved useful for the study of the role of miRNA expression and regulation in the plant transcriptome.