Project description:The degree of yellowing in tobacco leaves is an important indicator for determining the maturity and harvesting time of tobacco leaves. Reduction in chlorophyll is of utility for promoting the concentrated maturation of tobacco leaves and achieving mechanised harvesting and mining, and utilising tobacco yellow leaf regulatory genes is of great significance for the selection and breeding of tobacco varieties suitable for mechanised harvesting and the resolution of the molecular mechanisms controlling leaf colouration. In this study, the phenotypes of the yellow-leaf K326 and K326 varieties were analysed, and it was observed that the yellow-leaf K326 variety exhibited a distinct yellow leaf phenotype with a significant reduction in chlorophyll content. Subsequently, using a combination of BSA-seq, transcriptomic sequencing (RNA-seq), and proteomic sequencing approaches, we identified the candidate gene Nitab4.5_0008674g0010 that encodes dihydroneopterin aldolase as a factor associated with tobacco leaf yellowing. Finally, by measuring the folate content in K326 and Huangye K326, the folate content in Huangye K326 was observed to be significantly lower than that in K326, thus indicating that folate synthesis plays a crucial role in phenotypic changes in tobacco yellow leaves. This study is the first to use BSA-seq combined with RNA-seq and proteomic sequencing to identify candidate genes in tobacco yellow leaves. The results provide a theoretical basis for the analysis of the mechanism of tobacco yellow leaf mutations.
Project description:Greenhouse experiment testing the effects of Barley yellow dwarf virus on Avena sativa and the fate of isotopically labeled MAOM added to soil
Project description:We investigated the transcriptional response of invasive B. tabaci B biotype to tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV) using Illumina sequencing technology. We found that 1,606 genes involved in 157 biochemical pathways were differentially expressed in the viruliferous whiteflies. Culture of B biotype whitefly was maintained on cotton plants. Three thousands of newly emerged adults of whitefly on cotton were released onto the leaves of healthy and viruliferous tobacco plants. They were allowed to feed for 24 h. After that, non-viruliferous and viruliferous whiteflies were transferred respectively to cotton plants in different cages and allowed to feed for 120 h. Then approximately 1,000 non-viruliferous and viruliferous female adults of whitefly were collected, respectively. The RNA was extracted and sequenced using Illunima Analyzer II.
Project description:We compared the transcriptional profiles of female adult whiteflies of B. tabaci Middle East-Asia Minor 1 feeding on TYLCCNV-free and TYLCCNV-infected tobacco plants using the next-generation sequencing technique. Culture of B (MEAM1 cryptic species) whitefly was maintained on cotton plants. One thousand of newly emerged adults of whitefly on cotton were released onto the leaves of healthy and viruliferous tobacco plants. After 72 h of oviposition, all the adult whiteflies were discarded, and the progeny allowed to develop to adults. The cultures of MEAM1 on tobacco plants were maintained in climate chambers at 27 M-BM-1 1M-BM-0C, a photoperiod of 14 h light/10 h darkness and 70 M-BM-1 10% relative humidity. Approximately 1,000 female adult whiteflies newly emerged from mock-inoculated tobacco plants and 1,000 female adult whiteflies newly emerged from virus-infected tobacco plants were collected and stored at -80M-BM-0C. The RNA was extracted and sequenced using Illunima Analyzer II.
