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. Two-week old seedlings of sd37 and wild-type rice plants were selected and three biological replicates were generated and evaluated.
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:We sequenced mRNA from two-week old rice seedlings of jmj704 and wild-type (ZH11) plants to obtain the differntially expressed genes in jmj704 mutant.
Project description:Fairy rings are zones of stimulated grass growth by the interaction between the fungi and the plant. In the previous research, we reported the identification of the “fairy”, 2-azahypoxanthine (AHX), produced by the fairy ring-forming fungus and the mechanism of its growth-promoting activity using DNA microarray. We discovered AOH, a common metabolite of AHX in plants. We investigate expression profiling of rice seedlings treated with AHX or AOH for the mechanism of their growth-promoting activity.
Project description:In this study, we used a cross-species network approach to uncover nitrogen (N)-regulated network modules conserved across a model and a crop species. By translating gene network knowledge from the data-rich model Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana, ecotype Columbia-0) to a crop, rice (Oryza sativa spp. japonica (Nipponbare)), we identified evolutionarily conserved N-regulatory modules as targets for translational studies to improve N use efficiency in transgenic plants.
Project description:In order to identify new miRNAs, NAT-siRNAs and possibly abiotic-stress regulated small RNAs in rice, three small RNA libraries were constructed from control rice seedlings and seedlings exposed to drought or salt stress, and then subjected to pyrosequencing.
Project description:IDS1 is a rice AP2-type transcription factor with transcritpional repression activity. To understand how IDS1 regulate rice salt tolerance, the ChIP-seq experiments were performed to identify IDS1 binding site in globle genomic level. The two-weeks-old rice seedlings were lysated and sonificated and IDS1-DNA complexes were immune precipated with myc-antibody and protein A beads. The purified DNA samples were used to construct sequencing libraries and sequenced with Illumina. The data were then analyzed with bio-informatic tools.
Project description:Vector control and OsTZF1-OX rice plants (O. sativa L. cv. Nipponbare) were grown in plastic pots filled with nutrient soil for 2 weeks under flooded lowland conditions and a 12 h/12 h light/dark cycle (1000 umol photons/m2/s) at 28C (day) and 25C (night). For NaCl treatment, two-week-old plants were transferred to 250 mM NaCl solution and incubated for 2 days under the above conditions.
Project description:Expression profiles of one-week-old rice seedlings exposed to Pi-deficient solution for 6, 24, 48, 72 hours were monitored by microarray that contains approximately 60,000 rice clones (Affymetrix GeneChip). The probes were prepared from RNAs isolated from rice seedlings exposed to Pi-deficient solution for 6, 24, 48, 72 hours, respectively, and those non-treated controls. For hybridization, two biological replicates were used to extract RNAs from different batches of plants.
