Project description:Mature seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana are desiccation tolerant, but they lose DT while progressing to germination. Yet, there is a small developmental window during which DT can be rescued by treatment with abscisic acid (ABA). We used a time-series of microarrays to gain temporal resolution and identify relevant genes in the re-establishment of desiccation tolerance with ABA.
Project description:Plants physiological mechanisms are affected by Abscisic acid (ABA) via changing gene expression and empowers plants to adapt in numerous environments. Plants have evolved their protection mechanisms for seed germination and abiotic environments to deal with critical harsh conditions. Here, we have explored those changes in Arabidopsis thaliana plants subjected to multiple abiotic stresses. AtBro1 transcripts showed up-regulation in the presence of salt, ABA and mannitol stress conditions. AtBRO1 over-expression lines exhibited robust tolerance to drought and salt stress. Further, ABA elicits resistance responses in loss-of-function bro1-1 mutant plants and AtBro1 positively regulates drought resistance in Arabidopsis. Promoter of AtBro1 fused with GUS showed GUS expression mainly in the rosette leaves and floral clusters, especially in anthers. AtBro1 protein was found to be localized in the plasma membrane of Arabidopsis at the subcellular level by using AtBro1::GFP fusion. Using a broad RNA-sequencing analysis, we observed that early transcriptional responses prompted by ABA induction exhibit specific quantitative differences at different time points, suggesting that ABA stimulates resistance responses in bro1-1 mutant plants. Additionally, transcripts levels of MOP9.5, MRD1, HEI10, and MIOX4 were altered in loss-of-function mutant plants which are involved in different stress conditions. Collectively, our results have shown that AtBro1 is involved in a significant role by regulating plant transcriptional response to ABA and induction of resistance response against abiotic stress.
Project description:To investigate differences in plant responses to salt and ABA stimulus, differences in gene expression in Arabidopsis in response to salt and ABA were compared using an Agilent oligo microarray. Four-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Columbia (Col-0) seedlings were treated with either 150 mM NaCl or 10 μM ABA for 6 hours; unstressed seedlings (control sample) were collected in parallel to avoid the possible effects of circadian rhythms. The results revealed that 31 genes were up regulated by both NaCl and ABA stress, and 23 genes were down-regulated by these stressors. To provide further validation of our microarray experiment data, ten genes from this signature were quantified in the same RNA samples by quantitative real-time PCR.
Project description:The hormone abscisic acid (ABA) regulates many plant stress responses and plant development by activating a complex gene regulatory network. This time series experiment was designed to unravel the architecture and dynamics of the ABA gene regulatory network.
Project description:The hormone abscisic acid (ABA) regulates many plant stress responses and plant development by activating a complex gene regulatory network. This time series experiment was designed to unravel the architecture and dynamics of the ABA gene regulatory network.
Project description:We applied the tiling arrays to study the Arabidopsis whole-genome transcriptome under drought, cold, high-salinity and ABA treatment conditions and idenfied many stress- or ABA- responsive putative functional RNAs and fully-overlapping sense-antisense transcripts in Arabidopsis genome. Keywords: stress response
