Project description:Soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) is the largest feedstock for protein and second largest source of vegetable oil in the world. In order to evaluate whether the expression of ATWRI1 and AtDGAT1 could direct carbon flow towards lipid accumulation, we generated three independent transformation events (WD-1, -2, and -3). The transgenic events were evaluated in three field trials (2018, 2019, and 2020) as well as greenhouse conditions. RNAseq analysis was performed in immature embryos of both transgenic events grown under greenhouse conditions. We discovered that Glycolysis and FA metabolism enzymes are enriched in WD differentially expressed genes during seed development.
Project description:Pea (Pisum. sativum L.) is a traditional and important edible legume that can be sorted into grain pea and vegetable pea according to their harvested maturely or not. Vegetable pea by eating the fresh seed is becoming more and more popular in recent years. These two type peas display huge variations of the taste and nutrition, but how seed development and nutrition accumulation of grain pea and vegetable pea and their differences at the molecular level remains poorly understood. To understand the genes and gene networks regulate seed development in grain pea and vegetable pea, high throughput RNA-Seq and bioinformatics analysis were used to compare the transcriptomes of vegetable pea and grain pea developing seed. RNA-Seq generated 18.7 G raw data, which was then de novo assembled into 77,273 unigenes with a mean length of 930 bp. Functional annotation of the unigenes was carried out using the nr, Swiss-Prot, COG, GO and KEGG databases. There were 459 and 801 genes showing differentially expressed between vegetable pea and grain pea at early and late seed maturation phases, respectively. Sugar and starch metabolism related genes were dramatically activated during pea seed development. The up-regulated of starch biosynthesis genes could explain the increment of starch content in grain pea then vegetable pea; while up-regulation of sugar metabolism related genes in vegetable pea then grain pea should participate in sugar accumulation and associated with the increase in sweetness of vegetable pea then grain pea. Furthermore, transcription factors were implicated in the seed development regulation in grain pea and vegetable pea. Thus, our results constitute a foundation in support of future efforts for understanding the underlying mechanism that control pea seed development and also serve as a valuable resource for improved pea breeding.
Project description:Soil salinity is a major environmental constraint affecting crop growth and threatening global food security. Plants adapt to salinity by optimizing performance of stomata, the microscopic sphincters inserted into the wax-covered epidermis of the shoot, which balance CO2 intake for photosynthetic carbon gain and concomitant water loss. Stomata are formed by two guard cells (GCs) that are morphologically and functionally distinct from the other leaf cells. In order to better understand the molecular mechanisms underlying stomatal function under saline conditions we used proteomics approach to study isolated GCs from the salt-tolerant sugar beet species.
Project description:In order to understand the changes of proteins during the taproot growth and development of sugar beet, .the two cultivar (SD and BS) at two time points of taproot growth rate were performed proteomic sequencing using iTRAQ.