Project description:The present transcript profiling compares the gene expression during cold-acclimation in different genotypes of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rye (Secale cereale L.) in order to determine factors influencing frost tolerance. Because of its outstanding robustness against adverse environmental conditions rye is considered to be a model species for abiotic stress tolerance. Wheat is moderate frost-tolerant and barley is most sensitive species in this study. The aim of this study elucidate conserved, as well as, species-specific gene regulation across the Triticeae. Furthermore, transcript abundances were correlated between the distinct frost tolerances of genotypes within each species in order to find candidate genes for frost tolerance.
Project description:Rye, wheat and barley contain gluten, proteins that trigger immune-mediated inflammation of the small intestine in people with coeliac disease (CD). The only treatment for CD is a lifelong gluten-free diet. To be classified as gluten-free by the World Health Organisation the gluten content must be below 20 mg/kg, but Australia has a more rigorous standard of no detectable gluten and not made from wheat, barley, rye or oats. The purpose of this study was to devise an LC-MS/MS method to detect rye in food. An MS-based assay could overcome some of the limitations of current immunoassays, wherein antibodies often show cross-reactivity and lack specificity due to the diversity of gluten proteins in commercial food and the homology between rye and wheat gluten isoforms. Comprehensive proteomic analysis of 20 rye cultivars originating from 12 countries enabled the identification of a panel of candidate rye-specific peptide markers. The peptide markers were assessed in 16 cereal and pseudo-cereal grains, and in 10 breakfast cereals and 7 snacks foods. Spelt flour was contaminated with rye at a level of 2% and trace levels of rye were found in a breakfast cereal that based on its labelled ingredients should be gluten-free.
Project description:This dataset is associated with two publications 1. Elucidating the biochemical basis of trans-16:1 fatty acid change in leaves during cold acclimation in wheat. http://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10044 In this study, comparative RNA-seq analyses with leaf tissues undergoing cold acclimation reveal concerted transcriptome shifts indicating a reduced chloroplast lipid pathway activity and increased cytosolic ER membrane lipid synthesis. To explore the underlying metabolic and transcriptional mechanisms responsible for the reduction of the t16:1 under cold, a detailed lipid analysis and comparative transcriptome study were conducted with four wheat cultivars during cold treatment. The RNA-seq dataset includes four wheat cultivars (Manitou, Winter Manitou, Norstar and Spring Norstar) treated with cold paired with control. The data as a whole show that leaf tissues experience a gradual decrease in chloroplast lipid pathway activity and the variation in the decline of chloroplast lipid synthesis in different cultivars manifest in the rate of decrease in t16:1decrease in leaf tissues. Future efforts are required to determine if and how the down regulation of the chloroplast lipid pathway is related to the development of winter hardiness. 2. Computational genomics insights into cold acclimation in wheat. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1015673 In this study, integrated computational approaches was employed to investigate the transcriptomics and lipidomics data associated with cold acclimation and vernalization in the four wheat genotypes of distinct cold tolerance. Differential expression was investigated between cold treated and control samples and between the winter-habit and spring-habit wheat genotypes. Collectively, 12,676 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified. Principal component analysis of these DEGs indicated that the first, second, and third principal components (PC1, PC2, and PC3) explained the variance in cold treatment, vernalization and cold hardiness, respectively. Differential expression feature extraction (DEFE) analysis revealed that the winter-habit wheat genotype Norstar had high number of unique DEGs (1884 up and 672 down) and 63 winter-habit genes, which were clearly distinctive from the 64 spring-habit genes based on PC1, PC2 and PC3. Correlation analysis revealed 64 cold hardy genes and 39 anti-hardy genes. Cold acclimation encompasses a wide spectrum of biological processes and the involved genes work cohesively as revealed through network propagation and collective association strength of local subnetworks. Integration of transcriptome and lipidomics data revealed that the winter-habit genes, such as COR413-TM1, CIPKs and MYB20, together with the phosphatidylglycerol lipids, PG(34:3) and PG(36:6), played a pivotal role in cold acclimation and coordinated cohesively associated subnetworks to confer cold tolerance. Citations: http://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10044 https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1015673
Project description:we investigated the transcriptome of barley albina and xantha mutants and the corresponding wild type to assess the effect of the chloroplast on expression of cold-regulated genes Keywords: stress response
Project description:Experiment was designed to identify transcriptome changes during cold acclimation of Drosophila melanogaster male flies. Resistance to cold is often measured by recovery times from chill coma, which is induced almost immediately upon exposure to low but non-freezing temperatures (~0C), with flies becoming immobilised and losing motor activity. This paralysis is also ostensibly reversible upon return to normal temperatures, although again there can be longer term effects. Acclimation for increased cold resistance requires exposure periods ranging from hours or days to several weeks at low temperatures between 0C to 12C, and samples were taken during the cold acclimation period (1 hr, 2 hr, 3 hr, 6 hr, 12 hr, 24 hr, 36 hr and 48 hr).
Project description:In this study we used the Affymetrix Barley 1 GeneChip to investigate transcriptome responses of barley cv. Morex to low temperature, including triplicated measurements of cold, freeze/thaw cycles and de-acclimation over 33 days. Keywords: stress response
Project description:To understand physiological mechanisms of cold acclimation in pea, we performed a transcriptomique analysis in order to compare the response to LT treatment in two varieties, one being cold tolerant (Champagne) and the other cold sensitive (Terese).
Project description:To distinguish transcripts expressed from each of the three wheat genomes and those from the rye chromatins, genomic probes generated from diploid progenitors of wheat and rye were synthesized
Project description:Plants due to their sessile nature rely on root systems to mediate many challenging stimuli. A major cornerstone of the responses are root proteomes, shaped to overcome biotic and abiotic cues. Proteome-wide reprogramming events are magnified in root meristems due to their active protein production. Using root meristems as a test system, we here study the major rewiring that plants face during cold acclimation. To achieve that, we performed tandem mass tag (TMT) label-mediated bottom-up proteomics of two consecutive segments of barley root apexes, comparing changes in global protein contents and individual protein abundances. We report an intricate translational reprogramming happening in the distal apex zone. The reprogramming includes all the translational machinery from ribosome biogenesis to protein folding, even suggesting roles for cold-specific ribosomal protein (RP) paralogs. Finally, this event is accompanied by upregulation of glutathione production and S-glutathionylation assemblage machineries. To summarize, we couple previous reports of an alternatively cold-spliced transcriptome to potential cold-specialized ribosomes and subsequent posttranslational modification (PTM), S-glutathione, of proteins. We propose that these PTMs protect the proteome during cold by acting as ROS scavengers, and consequently, provide a mechanistic link to the cold priming capabilities for root-specific biotic stress.
Project description:The sfr3-1 mutation causes freezing-sensitivity in Arabidopsis thaliana. The mutated gene has been identified by positional cloning and is currently being characterised. The mutant appears normal when grown in the warm (no phenotype has been identified associated with such growth). However, following cold acclimation and subsequent freezing mutant plants are severely damaged whilst wild type plants are not. This suggests that sfr3 is deficient in the cold acclimation process. Micro-array analysis will enable the identification of any transcriptional changes during the cold acclimation process. This information will then be used, together with information obtained by gene characterisation, in order to more fully understand the nature of the sfr3 mutation.