Project description:Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as important regulators in developmental processes and stress responses in plants. To identify the wound-responsive miRNAs in the leaves of sweet potato, small RNA deep sequencing was conducted on unwounded and wounded leaves (30 min). Total RNAs were isolated for library construction and analyzed by RNA-sequencing via Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx platform. About 16 million total reads were obtained for each sample.
Project description:Small RNAs (sRNAs) play important roles in plants encountering stress environments. However, limited research has been conducted on the sRNAs involved in plant wound responses. To identify potential roles for the wounding-related sRNAs, sRNA deep sequencing was used. After leaves were wounded for 0.5 hour, total RNAs from unwounded and wounded leaves were isolated for sRNA library construction. The Illumina platform was used to sequence sRNA libraries. About 12 million sequence reads were obtained for each sample.
Project description:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) control their target genes by RNA cleavage or translation inhibition. The regulation of miRNA in the local leaves of plants after wounding has been studied, but its systemic effect is less understood. In this study, wounding-induced miR168-3p in the systemic leaves of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas cv. Tainung 57) was analyzed. Bioinformatics analysis indicated that the target gene of miR168-3p is IbKTN80, which encodes the katanin p80 subunit. Their relationship was confirmed by agroinfiltration with transient expression of primary miR168 and IbKTN80 transcript. Transgenic sweet potatoes overexpressing and silencing miR168-3p further confirmed that IbKTN80 was the target gene of miR168-3p. Moreover, IbKTN80 is homologous to AtKTN80.2, and the expression of IbKTN80 could recover the functional defectiveness of the AtKTN80.2 in Arabidopsis treated with abscisic acid. IbKTN80, similar to AtKTN80.2, regulated MYC2, which is involved in the jasmonate (JA) signaling and biosynthesis. Conclusively, wounding induced the systemic generation of miR168-3p, which repressed the expression of IbKTN80. The miR168-3p-IbKTN80 module was involved in JA regulation and may participate in the signal transduction of systemic effect.
Project description:Sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) is one of the most devastating diseases affecting sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas), an important food crop in developing countries. SPVD develops when sweetpotato plants are dually infected with sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV) and sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV). In the current study, global gene expression between SPVD affected plants and virus-tested control plants (VT) were compared in the susceptible ‘Beauregard’ and resistant ‘NASPOT 1’ (Nas) sweetpotato cultivars at 5, 9, 13 and 17 days post inoculation (DPI).
Project description:To screen genes related to the development of sweet potato tuberous roots, the high throughput sequencing of different stages of sweet potato tuberous roots was performed. The fibrous roots (FR; roots at 20 dap), developing tuberous roots (DR; roots at 60 dap) and mature tuberous roots (MR; roots at 120 dap) of Ipomoea batatas (L.) Taizhong 6 and MBP3 overexpressed lines were used for transcriptome analysis. Totally, we identified 5488 differentially expressed genes between different stage tuberous roots of Taizhong6 and 14312 differentially expressed genes between the tuberous roots of Taizhong6 and MBP3 overexpressed lines, by calculating the gene FPKM in each sample and conducting differential gene analysis. This study provides a foundation for the mechanism analysis of sweet potato tuberous root development.
Project description:Global gene expression signatures was analysed through microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify up and down regulated ESTs that represent genes involved in metabolic pathways in the leaf, fibrous root and storage root (tuber forming root) of sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) as affcted by high temperature stress (40oC) compared to ambient temperature (30oC). Also Global gene expression signatures was analysed by the same procedure to explore up and down regulated ESTs in tuberous root of sweet potato in comparison with fibrous root of Ipomoea cornea and identify unique ESTs that represent genes involved in tuber formation in sweet potato.
Project description:we performed de novo transcriptome assembly and digital gene expression (DGE) profiling analyses of sweet potato challenged with Fob using Illumina Hiseq technology. A total of 89,944,188 clean reads were generated and were assembled into 101,988 unigenes with an average length of 666bp, 62,605(61.38%) of them were functional annotated in the non-redundant(nr) protein database from NCBI by using BLASTX with a cut-off E-value of 10-5, and COG,GO and KEGG annotations were examined for better understand their functions. Five DGE libraries were constructed from the sweet potato cultivar JS57 (high resistance) and XZH (high susceptible) challenged with pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Fob. The differentially expressed genes including up- and down-regulation in five libraries were identified and calculated based on comparisons of transcriptomes, showing differences in gene expression profiles among the samples. A set of differentially expressed genes involved disease response were identified, including 40 WRKY and seven NAC transcription factors, four resistance genes, 22 pathogenesis-related genes, and six genes involved in SA signal pathway. Our study is the first to provide the transcriptome sequence resource of sweet potato challenged with pathogenic and non-pathogenic Fob and demonstrate its digital expression profiling. We discovered a set of genes involved in disease resistance. These data provides comprehensive sequence resource of sweet potato for genetic and genomic studies and will accelerate the understanding of molecular mechanism of disease resistance.