Project description:The purpose of this study is to analyze maize shoots growth under negative pressure to stabilize soil water content,Maize plants were subjected to two irrigation treatments. The first treatment was soil moisture dry-wet cycles, which was obtained using drip irrigation (control, DW). The second treatment was negative pressure to stabilize soil water content treatment (SW), which was obtained using the negative pressure irrigation (NPI) system.
Project description:After a standard cultivation program of six weeks, tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cultivar MicroTom were grown under different conditions of atmospheric humidity and soil irrigation. The atmospheric humidity was adjusted to 40% and 80%, respectively. To regulate soil moisture, all potted plants were substrate saturated watered once a week. Furthermore, only a group of these plants was irrigated to assure optimally growing conditions (optimal watering conditions), whereas a second group had to cope with little water supply (no watering conditions). Mature green fruits were investigated (fruit developmental category II). Samples contained exclusively the fruit peel, which was removed with a scalpel to a depth of approximately 1 mm. After sampling point the plant material was immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80 C until use.
Project description:To identify genes that are drought-responsive we conducted drought (soil water depletion) experiments on 3-month-old *P*. *trichocarpa *clonal plants. The plants undergo five different stages based on the appearance of their shoots and leaves during the drought experiments. Stage I: The shoot and leaves are green, and the leaves are well-spread. Stage II: The leaves are droopy. Stage III: The shoot is droopy, and the leaves are partially dry. Stage IV: The leaves are brown and totally dry. Stage V: The shoot is brown. With fully irrigation, the soil water content is 74% and the xylem water content is 80.6%. Plants in Stage III (Day 5) are under a mild drought state. The soil and xylem water content in Stage III dropped to 33% and 75.3%, respectively. Stage IV (Day 6-10) is a severe drought state where the soil and xylem water content continued decreasing to 29% and 74.3%, respectively in Day 7. The stressed plants from Stage I-IV could all recover in 3 days after rehydration, but the plants in Stage V could not recover after rehydration.
Project description:GCMS datasets for the soil depth manuscript
Abstract
Two factors that are well-known to influence soil microbiomes include the depth of the soil as well as the level of moisture. Previous works have demonstrated that climate change will increase the incidence of drought in soils, but it is unknown how fluctuations in moisture availability affect soil microbiome composition and functioning down the depth profile. Here, we investigated soil and wheatgrass rhizosphere microbiomes in a common field setting under four different irrigation regimes and three depths. We demonstrated that there is a significant interactive effect, where fluctuations in soil moisture more strongly influence soil microbiomes at the surface layer than in deeper layers, including for soil community composition, diversity, and for functional profiles. Meanwhile, in rhizosphere communities the influence of irrigation was similar across the different depths, although there were slight discrepancies between the two cultivars of wheatgrass used. The lessened response of deeper soil microbiomes to changes in irrigation may be due to higher incidence of slow-growing, stress-resistant microbes.
Project description:Cocoa is a crop of cultural, nutritional and social importance in Latin America. Cocoa production is mainly supported by smallholders and is central for the food security of these farmer families. Despite being part of their everyday diet and an important source of antioxidants and other healthy bioactive compounds, cocoa cropping is also a solid source of stable incomes supporting the livelihood of farmer families. Water deficit stress is one of the main limiting factors affecting crop yields. The ability of plants to tolerate or recover from the effects associated with this abiotic stress is of immense importance in terms of improvement in the context of climate change. Despite the emergence of functional genomics and phenotyping tools to approach these responses, many of these mechanisms are still little understood for many tropical food crops such as cocoa. For a transcriptomic analysis were selected 2 cocoa genotypes, from a hydric stress assay established in a greenhouse. 5-month-old plants of T. cacao of the genotypes EET 8 and TSH565 were tested for water deficit trial. A divided plot experimental design was applied: the hydric state of the 2 genotypes was evaluated with two levels: field capacity and water deficit by irrigation suspension during a period that generates severe stress (Leaf Water Potential of -3.0 Mpa). The irrigation suspension lasted 52 days.
Project description:Iron (Fe) deficiency is a yield-limiting factor for a variety of field crops across the world and generally results from the interaction of limited soil Fe bioavailability and susceptible genotype cultivation. Tomato, a Strategy I, model plant for Fe deficiency, is an important economical crop. Tomato responses in order to improve Fe uptake are based on acidification of rhizosphere, reduction of Fe3+ to Fe2+ and transport of Fe2+ into the cells.
Project description:Drought is one of the most serious abiotic stresses, under which the crop yield is significantly reduced. Elite winter wheat cultivar Henong 341 (Triticum aestivum L.) was grown in experimental fields of China Hebei province (116°37′23″E, 37°41′02″N) Two different treatment conditions were designed: rain-fed (no water irrigation) and well-watered (water irrigation) conditions at jointing and flowering stages. Each treatment included three biological replicates and each plot was 25m2. In this study, a comprehensive phosphoproteomic analysis of developing grains of 26th day after flowering (DAF) in Chinese bread wheat cultivar Henong 341 under well-watered and water-deficit conditions was performed by means of TiO2 enrichment, LC/MS/MS analysis, and Label-free peptide-intensity quantification. Under well-watered conditions, a total of 590 unique phosphopeptides corresponding to 603 nonredundant phosphorylation sites, representing 471 phosphoproteins, were identified. While under water deficit, 63 unique phosphopeptides, corresponding to 61 phosphoproteins, were found to be differently regulated in phosphorylation status compared to well-watered conditions (≥2 fold intensities).
Project description:A cultivation facility that can assist users in controlling the soil water condition is needed for accurately phenotyping plants under drought stress in an artificial environment. Here we report the Internet of Things (IoT)-based pot system controlling optional treatment of soil water condition (iPOTs), an automatic irrigation system that mimics the drought condition in a growth chamber. The Wi-Fi-enabled iPOTs system allows water supply from the bottom of the pot, based on the soil water level set by the user, and automatically controls the soil water level at a desired depth. The iPOTs also allows users to monitor environmental parameters, such as soil temperature, air temperature, humidity, and light intensity, in each pot. To verify whether the iPOTs mimics the drought condition, we conducted a drought stress test on rice varieties and near-isogenic lines, with diverse root system architecture, using the iPOTs system installed in a growth chamber. Similar to the results of a previous drought stress field trial, the growth of shallow-rooted rice accessions was severely affected by drought stress compared with that of deep-rooted accessions. The microclimate data obtained using the iPOTs system increased the accuracy of plant growth evaluation. Transcriptome analysis revealed that pot positions in the growth chamber had little impact on plant growth. Together, these results suggest that the iPOTs system represents a reliable platform for phenotyping plants under drought stress.
Project description:Transcriptome analysis was performed on the rhizome tissues of Atractylodes macrocephala under different treatments. The four treatments were: sterile water irrigation alone, FS root irrigation, FS and AM201 root irrigation, and FS combined with methyltobuzin (TM) root irrigation. And the differential genes between AM201 and FO groups were identified and compared, which helps to reveal the resistance mechanism of AM201 to Atractylodes macrocephala root rot disease