Project description:Seeds germination is seriously sensitive to salt stress. The mechanism in response to salt stress during seed germination is still little known. In this study, two genotypes of hulless barley lk621 and lk53 were selected to investigate the molecular mechanism of seeds salinity response during germination stage through RNA-seq and iTRAQ technologies
2020-05-27 | PXD016100 | Pride
Project description:RNA SEQ of cotton seeds germination
Project description:We identified a regulator of Arabidopsis thaliana seed germination: FLOE1 (AT4G28300). We used RNA-seq to uncover genes that are diffenrentially regulated in dry seeds, imbibed seeds and seeds imbibed in 220mM NaCl.
Project description:To establish the basis for understanding molecular mechanism of seed germination response to temperature, we analyzed transcriptomes in freshly harvested dormant and dry stored after-ripened seeds. The after-ripened seeds started to show visible germination from 36h after the start of imbibition, and almost all the seeds germinated after 3 days. The freshly harvested seeds stayed dormant by imbibition at 26°C, and germination of the after-ripened seeds was almost completely inhibited at 34°C. Total RNA was prepared from 0 (dry), 6 and 24h imbibed seeds to find regulatory genes of seed dormancy and germination.
Project description:Light inhibits the seed germination in the Cypriot accession (CYP) of Aethionema arabicum. Extended light illumination also induces a secondary seed dormancy that inhibits the germination even if the seeds were transferred back to darkness. A forward genetic screen identified rgl2 mutant, that show light inhibited germination, but fails to re-enter the secondary dormancy. This analysis aims to compare the seed transcriptome before or after the dormancy was established by light illumination (100 µmol/m2s; white light). One day light treatment (1dL) inhibits the germination but the seeds are not yet dormant. Seven day (7dL) long light treatment induces dormancy in the WT but not in the rgl2 mutant.
Project description:Light inhibits the seed germination in the Cypriot accession (CYP) of Aethionema arabicum. Extended light illumination also induces a secondary seed dormancy that inhibits the germination even if the seeds were transferred back to darkness. This analysis aims to compare the seed transcriptome before or after the dormancy was established by light illumination (100 µmol/m2s; white light). One day light treatment (1dL) inhibits the germination but the seeds are not yet dormant. Seven day (7dL) or 14-day (14dL) long light treatment induces dormancy, and the seeds stay dormant after 7 dal-light plus 7 day-dark (7dL7dD) treatment. To understand the dormancy establishment, transcriptome was compared between non-dormant (1dL) and dormant (7dL, 14dL, 7dL7dD) seed samples.
Project description:Seeds are highly resilient to the external environment, which allow plants to persist in unpredictable and unfavorable conditions. Some plant species have adopted a bet-hedging strategy to germinate a variable fraction of seeds in any given condition, and this could be explained by population-based threshold models. Here, in the model plant Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) we induced secondary dormancy to address the transcriptional heterogeneity among seeds that leads to binary germination/non-germination outcomes. We developed a single seed RNA-seq strategy that allowed us to observe a reduction in seed transcriptional heterogeneity as seeds enter stress conditions, followed by an increase during recovery. We identified groups of genes whose expression showed a specific pattern through a time course and used these groups to position the individual seeds along the transcriptional gradient of germination competence. In agreement, transcriptomes of dormancy-deficient seeds (mutant of DELAY OF GERMINATION 1 gene) showed a shift towards higher values of the germination competence index. Interestingly, a significant fraction of genes with variable expression encoded translation-related factors. In summary, interrogating hundreds of single seed transcriptomes during secondary dormancy-inducing treatment revealed variability among the transcriptomes that could result from the distribution of population-based sensitivity thresholds. Our results also showed that single seed RNA-seq is the method of choice for analyzing seed bet-hedging-related phenomena.
Project description:During seed germination, desiccation tolerance is lost in the radicle with progressing radicle protrusion and seedling establishment. This process is accompanied by comprehensive changes of the metabolome and proteome. Germination of Arabidopsis seeds was investigated over 72 h with special focus on the heat-stable proteome including late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins together with changes of primary metabolites. Six metabolites in dry seeds known to be important for seed longevity decreased during germination and seedling establishment, while all other metabolites increased simultaneously with activation of growth and development. Thermo-stable proteins were associated with a multitude of biological processes. In the heat-stable proteome a relatively similar proportion of fully ordered and fully intrinsically disordered proteins (IDP) was discovered. Highly disordered proteins were found to be associated with functional categories development, protein, RNA and stress. As expected, the majority of LEA proteins decreased during germination and seedling establishment. However, four germination-specific dehydrins were identified, not present in dry seeds. A network analysis of proteins, metabolites and amino acids generated during the course of germination revealed a highly connected LEA protein network.
Project description:We identified a regulator of Arabidopsis thaliana seed germination: FLOE1 (AT4G28300). We used RNA-seq to uncover genes that are differentially regulated in dry seeds, imbibed seeds and seeds imbibed in 220mM NaCl in mutant lines complemented with a ΔDS deletion version of FLOE1 (ΔDS) compared to mutants complemented with a WT version of FLOE1 (+WT).
Project description:Quinoa is an Andean crop whose cultivation has been extended to many different parts of the world in the last decade. It shows a great capacity for adaptation to diverse climate conditions, including environmental stressors, and moreover, the seeds are very nutritious in part due to their high protein content which is rich in essential amino acids. They also contain good amounts of other nutrients such as unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, or minerals and are gluten-free seeds. Also, the use of quinoa hydrolysates and peptides has been linked to numerous health benefits. Altogether, these aspects have situated quinoa as a crop able to contribute to food security worldwide. Aiming to deepen our understanding of the protein quality and function of quinoa seeds and how they can vary when this crop is subjected to water-limiting conditions, a shotgun proteomics analysis was performed to obtain the proteomes of quinoa seeds harvested from two different water regimes in field: rainfed and irrigated conditions. Also, a quantitative analysis was developed to determine the total number of proteins identified in both samples, which of them are present in both conditions, and also, which ones were present exclusively in seeds under rainfed or irrigated conditions.