Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Pinus pinaster adult needles in a complete year. The needles were isolated by year emergence (whorl) in four groups. 0 (2012), 1 (2011), 2 (2010) and 3 (2009). The samples were harvested at 1245 m of altitude at Los Reales de Sierra Bermeja (Spain) (30S X:303.095 Y:4.039.618) one time per month.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Pinus pinaster adult needles in a complete year. The needles were isolated by year emergence (whorl) in four groups. 0 (2012), 1 (2011), 2 (2010) and 3 (2009). The samples were harvested at 1245 m of altitude at Los Reales de Sierra Bermeja (Spain) (30S X:303.095 Y:4.039.618) one time per month. Reference design. 6 biological replicates that were pooled two by two resulting in 3 samples for the hybridization. The common reference samples was a pool of RNA samples from January. The reference sample was labeled with Cy5 and the test samples with Cy3.
Project description:The transcriptome of needles from plants propagated by cuttings and cultured in the same condictions at SERIDA’s greenhouse at Villaviciosa (Asturias, Spain) were analyzed.
Project description:The transcriptome of needles from plants propagated by cuttings and cultured in the same conditions at SERIDA’s greenhouse at Villaviciosa (Asturias, Spain) were analyzed. The cuttings are from two different provenances of Pinus pinaster; Leiria (Portugal) and Tamrabta (Morocco). Their transcriptomes were analyzed using high throughput sequencing
Project description:The transcriptome of needles from plants propagated by cuttings and cultured in the same condictions at SERIDAâs greenhouse at Villaviciosa (Asturias, Spain) were analyzed. The cuttings are from two different provenances of Pinus pinaster; Leiria (Portugal) and Tamrabta (Morocco). Their transcriptomes were analyzed using one color microarrays.
Project description:The transcriptome of needles from plants propagated by cuttings and cultured in the same conditions at SERIDAâ??s greenhouse at Villaviciosa (Asturias, Spain) were analyzed. The cuttings are from two different provenances of Pinus pinaster; Leiria (Portugal) and Tamrabta (Morocco). Their transcriptomes were analyzed using high throughput sequencing 4 samples
Project description:BACKGROUND:Fusarium circinatum, the causal agent of pitch canker disease, poses a serious threat to several Pinus species affecting plantations and nurseries. Although Pinus pinaster has shown moderate resistance to F. circinatum, the molecular mechanisms of defense in this host are still unknown. Phytohormones produced by the plant and by the pathogen are known to play a crucial role in determining the outcome of plant-pathogen interactions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the role of phytohormones in F. circinatum virulence, that compromise host resistance. RESULTS:A high quality P. pinaster de novo transcriptome assembly was generated, represented by 24,375 sequences from which 17,593 were full length genes, and utilized to determine the expression profiles of both organisms during the infection process at 3, 5 and 10 days post-inoculation using a dual RNA-sequencing approach. The moderate resistance shown by Pinus pinaster at the early time points may be explained by the expression profiles pertaining to early recognition of the pathogen, the induction of pathogenesis-related proteins and the activation of complex phytohormone signaling pathways that involves crosstalk between salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, ethylene and possibly auxins. Moreover, the expression of F. circinatum genes related to hormone biosynthesis suggests manipulation of the host phytohormone balance to its own benefit. CONCLUSIONS:We hypothesize three key steps of host manipulation: perturbing ethylene homeostasis by fungal expression of genes related to ethylene biosynthesis, blocking jasmonic acid signaling by coronatine insensitive 1 (COI1) suppression, and preventing salicylic acid biosynthesis from the chorismate pathway by the synthesis of isochorismatase family hydrolase (ICSH) genes. These results warrant further testing in F. circinatum mutants to confirm the mechanism behind perturbing host phytohormone homeostasis.