Project description:Nontargeted and targeted metabolomics measurements of abiotic stress responses in three-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana plants' rosette leaf tissue for Col-0 wild type plants and double/triple knockout mutants of aquaporins (pip2;1 pip2;2 and pip2;1 pip2;2 pip2;4) treated with drought, heat at different air humidities, or combined drought-heat stress at different air humidities. This experiment contains FT-ICR-MS measurements for 103 Arabidopsis thaliana rosette leaf samples covering three genotypes under six different environmental conditions. The three genotypes comprise the Col-0 wildtype and two loss-of-function mutants of aquaporins, a pip2;1 pip2;2 double mutant and a pip2;1 pip2;2 pip2;4 triple mutant (respective AGI locus identifiers: AT3G53420, AT2G37170, AT5G60660). The six conditions include control condition (well-watered, 22 °C, 70% relative air humidity), drought stress (one week without watering), heat stress without changing the absolute humidity of the ambient air (6 hours at 33 °C, 37% relative air humidity), heat stress with supplemented air humidity to maintain a constant vapor pressure deficit before and during the heat episode (6 hours at 33 °C, 84% relative air humidity), and the combinations of drought pretreatment with each of the two heat stress variants (one week of drought followed by 6 hours of heat stress). Samples from all conditions were harvested at the same time (within 15 min starting at 5 pm). For validation, GC-TOF-MS measurements were done for two genotypes (wildtype, double mutant) and two conditions (drought, control) on partially overlapping samples.
Project description:HSFA1s are a gene family of HSFA1 with four members, HSFA1a, HSFA1b, HSFA1d, and HSFA1e. HSFA1s are the master regulators of heat shock response. As a part of the heat shock response, HSFA2 can prolong the heat shock response and amplify the heat shock response in response to repeat heat shock. To identify the heat-shock-responsive genes differentially regulated by HSFA1s and HSFA2, we compared the transcriptomic differences of plants containing only constitutively expressed HSFA1s or HSFA2 after heat stress. hsfa2 (the KO mutant of HSFA2, Col-0 background) and A2QK-10 (CaMV 35S:HSFA2 in QK mutant; QK is HSFA1a/b/d/e quadruple KO mutant) were used to compare the difference of heat shock response when plants lack HSFA1s or HSFA2. The aim is to find the HSFA1s- and HSFA2-preferred regulating genes after heat stress. As the control samples, wild type is the plant with normal heat shock response, and QK (HSFA1s KO mutant, Col-0 and Ws mixed background) is the plant that lost the heat shock response controlled by HSFA1s.
Project description:Analysis of transcriptome response of heat treated or untreated 7-day old whole seedlings with genotypes: Col-0 (wild type), p35S:ERF95 overexpression line and p35S:ERF97 overexpression line. ERF95 and ERF97 are involved in heat stress response. Results provide insight into the nuclear genes expression profile under heat treatment in Col-0, the nuclear genes expression profile regulated by either ERF95 and ERF97 overexpression before and after heat treatment, and the regulation similarity between ERF95 and ERF97 overexpression lines.
Project description:Investigation of the ecotype difference between Columbia-0 (Col) and Wassilewskija-0 (WS) on whole gene expression level, of PME17 mutation effect (compared to background WS) and of the aphid infestation effect on Col, WS and pme17 (infested plants compared to non-infested plants).
Project description:Arabidopsis 5’-3’ exoribonuclease, AtXRN4, a homolog of yeast Xrn1p, functions in degradation of uncapped RNAs after de-capping step. While Xrn1p-dependent on plant XRN4’s targets for degradation is still limited. For understanding biological function of AtXRN4, we tested survivability of atxrn4 mutants under heat stress. Our results showed that atxrn4 mutants increased survival rate under short-term degradation is a main mRNA decay in yeast, knowledge heat stress compared with WT plants. Our microarray and mRNA decay assay showed that loss of AtXRN4 function caused reduction of mRNA degradation of heat shock factor A2 (HSFA2) and ethylene response factor 1 (ERF1). HSFA2 has been known as a key regulator in heat acclimation, was found as a target for AtXRN4 for degradation at non-stress condition. Heat stress applied on atxrn4-3 hsfa2 double mutant severely lacked heat tolerance phenotype of atxrn4 mutant. These results suggest that AtXRN4-mediated mRNA degradation linked to suppress heat acclimation. In the study here, 2 week-old WT and atxrn4-3 mutant plants were exposure to non-stress (22oC) and heat-stress (37oC, 1 h). Custom microarray was applied to acquire expression profile of 32788 Arabidopsis genes. 3 biological repeats of WT (non-stress), WT(heat stress), atxrn4-3 (non-stress) and atxrn4-3 (heat stress) were used for microarray analysis
Project description:The total mRNA and polysomal RNA expression profiles of wild type (Col-0) and the quadruple spa mutant (spaQ) were analyzed under dark or in 4 hour light treated condition. The gene expression changed in spaQ mutant was analyzed and compared with Col-0.
Project description:Arabidopsis plants (Col-0) were exposed to heat stress (40oC) or microwave irradiation (23W) for 1h. Shoots were sampled and transcripts significantly up- or down-regulated by heat stress or microwave irradiation were investigated.
Project description:In this work, we describe a TDNA insertion mutant for Mediator complex subunit 8 (MED8) that regulates the oxidative stress responses. Wild-type Col-0 and med8 seedlings were growth under control condition or oxidative stress (induced by methyl viologen treatment) and were subjected to RNA-seq profiling. Total mRNA fractions were isolated and subjected to signle-end deep sequencing (approx.30M reads/sample) to reveal differential expression between genotypes and conditions.
Project description:Martian regolith (unconsolidated surface material) is a potential medium for plant growth in bioregenerative life support systems during manned missions on Mars. However, hydrated magnesium sulfate mineral levels in the regolith of Mars can reach as high as 10 wt%, and would be expected to be highly inhibitory to plant growth. A global approach was used to identify novel genes with potential to enhance tolerance to high MgSO4 stress. The early Arabidopsis root transcriptome response to elevated concentrations of magnesium sulfate was characterized in col-0, and also between col-0 and the mutant line cax1-1 – a mutant relatively tolerant of high levels of MgSO4•7H2O in soil solution.