Project description:Perennial plants alternate between periods of active growth and periods of dormancy. Prerequisite to bud dormancy is the formation of an apical bud. Short day photoperiod in the fall induces bud formation in poplar. Transgenic plants overexpressing the bZIP transcription factor FD do not stop growing and do not form a bud. In order to better understand the molecular events leading to bud formation, we used microarrays to compare the transcriptomes of shoot tips of poplars overexpressing FD and wild type plants (1) grown under long day conditions and (2) collected after 3 weeks under short day conditions
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of an Fd-GOGAT1/GLU1 mutant in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals a multiple stress response and extensive reprogramming of the transcriptome Glutamate plays a central position in the synthesis of a variety of organic molecules in plants and is synthesised from nitrate through a series of enzymatic reactions. Glutamate synthases catalyse the last step in this pathway and two types are present in plants: NADH- or ferredoxin-dependent. Here we report a genome wide microarray analysis of the transcriptional reprogramming that occurs in leaves and roots of the A. thaliana mutant glu1-2 knocked-down in the expression of Fd-GOGAT1 (GLU1; At5g04140), one of the two genes of A. thaliana encoding ferredoxin-dependent glutamate synthase.
