Project description:Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) is the most cultivated cool-season grass worldwide with crucial roles in carbon fixation and fodder for livestock. Protection of these grasses from biotic and abiotic factors are dictated through a mutually-beneficial relationship with endophytes that confer bioprotective properties. Common endophytes of the genus Epichloë promote the health and survival of cool-season forages greases and protect the plants from fluctuating environmental conditions. Climate change, and specifically, a steady increase in atmospheric CO2 levels, presents a dramatic and imminent threat faced by our ecosystem, which poses substantial pressures on plant health and survival. Defining the relationships between endophytes and the host plant may uncover mechanisms of bioprotection, which can be exploited to promote adaptable plant systems in rising CO2 conditions. In this study, we quantify changes in biomass and seed production of L. perenne L. at 400 and 800 ppm CO2 and identify endophyte-specific changes in metabolite production. Additionally, we discover protein-level changes from both the endophyte and plant perspectives, which underscore the compatible relationship between a common, natural endophyte and L. perenne L., compared to an incompatible and detrimental relationship the epichloid strain, AR1. Taken together, our data set provides new understanding into the intricacy of compatibility between endophyte and host from multiple molecular levels and suggests opportunity to promote plant robustness and survivability in rising CO2 environmental conditions through application of bioprotective epichloid strains.
Project description:Equine atypical myopathy (AM) is a severe environmental intoxication linked to the ingestion of protoxins contained in seeds and seedlings of the sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) in Europe. The toxic metabolites cause a frequently fatal rhabdomyolysis syndrome in grazing horses. Since toxic metabolites can also be present in co-grazing horses, it is still unclear as to why, in a similar environmental context, some horses show signs of AM whereas others remain clinically healthy. Label-free proteomics analyses on the serum of 26 diseased AM, 23 co-grazers and 11 control horses were performed to provide insights into biological processes and pathways. A total of 43 and 44 differentially expressed proteins between “AM vs co-grazing horses” and “AM vs control horses” were found. Disease-linked changes in the proteome of different groups were found to correlate with detected amounts of toxins and principal component analysis was performed to identify the 29 proteins with the greatest impact on the proteomic differences between groups. Among the pathway-specific changes the glycolysis/gluconeogenesis pathway, the coagulation/complement cascade, and the biosynthesis of amino acid were affected. Sycamore maple poisoning results in a combination of inflammation, oxidative stress, and high energy demand, which is trying to be met by enhanced glycolysis.
2024-02-09 | PXD040429 | Pride
Project description:Leaf mycobiome and mycotoxin of warm-season grasses in Florida pastures
Project description:Drought is a major environmental stress that limits growth and development of cool-season annual grasses. Drought transcriptional profiles of resistant and susceptible lines were studied to understand the molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance in annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.). A total of 4,718 genes exhibited significant differential expression in two L. multiflorum lines. Additionally, up-regulated genes associated with drought response in the resistant lines were compared with susceptible lines. Gene ontology enrichment and pathway analyses revealed that genes partially encoding drought-responsive proteins as key regulators were significantly involved in carbon metabolism, lipid metabolism, and signal transduction. Comparable gene expression was used to identify the genes that contribute to the high drought tolerance in resistant lines of L. multiflorum.
2017-02-14 | GSE78738 | GEO
Project description:Strongyle Infection and Gut Microbiota: Profiling of Resistant and Susceptible Horses Over a Grazing Season
Project description:We measured time series transcriptome level in mouse eyes kept under short day and cool (SC), winter-like conditions, and long day and warm (LW), summer-like conditions.
Project description:Microbial RNAseq analysis of cecal and fecal samples collected from mice colonized with the microbiota of human twins discordant for obesity. Samples were colleted at the time of sacrifice, or 15 days after colonization from mice gavaged with uncultured or cultured fecal microbiota from the lean twins or their obese co-twins. Samples were sequenced using Illumina HiSeq technology, with 101 paired end chemistry. Comparisson of microbial gene expression between the microbiota of lean and obese twins fed a Low fat, rich in plant polysaccharide diet.