Project description:Cassava Anthracnose Disease (CAD) that caused by the fungus Colletotorichum anthracnose is a serious disease of cassava in worldwide. In this study, we aim to establish the cassava oligo-DNA microarray representing approximately 30,000 cassava genes and apply it to investigate the molecular mechanisms against fungal infection using two cassava cultivars; Huay Bong 60 (HB60, resistant line for CAD) and Hanatee (HN, sensitive line for CAD). Based on expression profiling, we showed that the expression of various biotic stress-inducible genes, such as detoxification enzyme related genes is higher in HB60 under the treated conditions and non-treated condition, compared with HN. These results show that stress-inducible signaling pathways including ROS detoxification are constitutively activated in HB60 even under normal growth conditions without stress. These results suggest that our microarray is a useful tool for analyzing the cassava transcriptome and add new insight into the host responses of cassava against fungal infection.
Project description:In this study, we sequenced small RNA content from three different rice cultivars employing Illumina technology. More than 15 million reads were generated using Illumina high-throughput sequencing platform. After pre-processing, distinct small RNA sequences were identified for each rice cultivars. We collected seedlings of different rice cultivars and total RNA isolated was subjected to Illumina sequencing. The sequenced data was further filtered using NGS QC Toolkit to obtain high-quality reads. The filtered reads were pre-processed using modified perl script provided in the miRTools software. After quality control, the identical reads were collapsed into a unique read and read count for each sequence was recorded. All the filtered unique reads from each sample were mapped on the rice genome to find their location.
Project description:To exploite S. sclerotiorum to identify differential fungal responses leading to either an endophytic or a pathogenic lifestyle during colonization of both asymptomatic host and symptomatic host We then performed gene expression profiling analysis using data obtained from RNA-seq of 9 different samples after 2 days.
