Project description:affy_strigolactone_sunflower - affy_strigolactone_sunflower - Abiotic stress and more specifically drought is the major limiting factor for sunflower production. Sunflower response to drought includes root plasticity to adapt to water availability and reach soil water. We identified genotype-specific responses of root architecture to strigolactone application. This experiment aims at identifying strigolactone responsive pathways in 6 genotypes in order to better understand molecular control of root development in sunflower and therefore its response to drought. The ultimate goal will be to improve sunflower breeding through selection of key drought response genes.-The experiment consisted of 2 repeats of four 12-day-old-plantlets of 6 sunflower genotype SF193 (INRA code: XRQ), SF326 (INRA code: PSC8), SF056 (INRA code: FU), SF306 (INRA code: PAZ2), SF302 (INRA code: PAC2), SF268 (INRA code: RHA266), grown in growth chamber conditions and submitted to a 24-hour-treatment of 100 nM strigolactone analogue rac-GR24 (Chiralix, Nijmegen, Netherland) or not. Growth conditions were 14h light at 23°C and 10h night at 20°C under fluorescent bulbs. Plants were grown in hydroponic boxes containing 20 litres of aerated liquid culture medium (as described in Massonneau et al., 2001 Planta). The entire root systems were harvested 4 hours after light onset and frozen immediately in liquid nitrogen. 24 arrays - SUNFLOWER; treated vs untreated comparison
Project description:affy_strigolactone_sunflower - affy_strigolactone_sunflower - Abiotic stress and more specifically drought is the major limiting factor for sunflower production. Sunflower response to drought includes root plasticity to adapt to water availability and reach soil water. We identified genotype-specific responses of root architecture to strigolactone application. This experiment aims at identifying strigolactone responsive pathways in 6 genotypes in order to better understand molecular control of root development in sunflower and therefore its response to drought. The ultimate goal will be to improve sunflower breeding through selection of key drought response genes.-The experiment consisted of 2 repeats of four 12-day-old-plantlets of 6 sunflower genotype SF193 (INRA code: XRQ), SF326 (INRA code: PSC8), SF056 (INRA code: FU), SF306 (INRA code: PAZ2), SF302 (INRA code: PAC2), SF268 (INRA code: RHA266), grown in growth chamber conditions and submitted to a 24-hour-treatment of 100 nM strigolactone analogue rac-GR24 (Chiralix, Nijmegen, Netherland) or not. Growth conditions were 14h light at 23°C and 10h night at 20°C under fluorescent bulbs. Plants were grown in hydroponic boxes containing 20 litres of aerated liquid culture medium (as described in Massonneau et al., 2001 Planta). The entire root systems were harvested 4 hours after light onset and frozen immediately in liquid nitrogen.
Project description:The objective of this study was to evaluate the role of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) and other detoxification-related proteins in Imisun sunflower resistance. Two sunflower inbred lines were used: HA 425 and HA 89, imidazolinone (IMI)-resistant and susceptible, respectively. Growth response to imazethapyr herbicide in combination with P450s inhibitors 1-aminobenzotriazole (ABT) and piperonyl butoxide (PBO) was evaluated in 15-day-old sunflower plantlets. Roots were collected and label-free quantitation (LFQ) proteomic analysis were carried out in order to characterize plant response to IMI. Roots of 15-day-old plants treated with 0 and 3.3 µM imazethapyr were frozen in liquid nitrogen. Protein extraction was performed as described in Wu et al. (2014) from 1 g root tissue per genotype/treatment combination.
Project description:Root exudates play an important role in plant-microbe interaction. The transcriptional profilings of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SQR9 in response to maize root exudates under static condition, were investigated by an Illumina RNA-seq for understanding the regulatory roles of the root exudates.
Project description:During a compatible interaction, root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) induce the redifferentiation of root cells into multinucleate nematode feeding cells giant cells. These hypertrophied cells result from repeated nuclear divisions without cytokinesis, are metabolically active and present features typical of transfer cells. Hyperplasia of the surrounding cells leads to formation of the typical root gall. We investigate here the plant response to root-knot nematodes.
Project description:We isolated an atmospheric contaminant, subsequently identified as a new strain of Bacillus mobilis, which showed a novel, robust, inducible filamentous sliding motility and completely colonized a bacterial culture plate in less than 48 h under some conditions. This flagella-independent sliding motility was characterized by long filamentous cells at the expanding edge, and was induced when cells were inoculated onto lawns of metabolically inactive Campylobacter jejuni cells, heat killed bacterial biomass, and milk or blood dried onto agar plates. Phosphatidylcholine (PC), bacterial membrane components, and sterile human fecal extracts were sufficient to induce filamentous expansion. Screening of eight other Bacillus spp. (five from the B. cereus group and three other Bacillus spp.) showed that filamentous motility was conserved amongst B. cereus group species to varying degrees. RNAseq of filamentously expanding cells collected from PC and milk lawn plates in comparison to rod-shaped cells from control plates revealed that genes related to metabolism, ion and amino acid transport were differently regulated, genes controlling sporulation were reduced, and some virulence genes (e.g., hblA/B/C/D and plcR) were increased. We hypothesize that the robust and conserved nature of filamentous motility in pathogenic B. cereus group species can enhance bacterial colonization during host colonization.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling by array of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain FZB42 after root exudate treatment (0.25 g/L) at OD600=1.0<br><br>
Project description:Flavonoids are stress-inducible metabolites important for plant-microbe interactions. In contrast to their well-known function in initiating rhizobia nodulation in legumes, it is unclear whether and how flavonoids may contribute to plant stress resistance through affecting non-nodulating bacteria in the root microbiome. Here we show how flavonoids preferentially attracts Aeromonadaceae in Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome and how flavonoid-dependent recruitment of an Aeromona spp. results in enhanced plant Na_H1 resistance.