scholarly journals Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Gene Expression Patterns in Tomato Under Dynamic Light Conditions

Genes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juanjuan Ding ◽  
Jiantao Zhao ◽  
Tonghua Pan ◽  
Linjie Xi ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
...  

Plants grown under highly variable natural light regimes differ strongly from plants grown under constant light (CL) regimes. Plant phenotype and adaptation responses are important for plant biomass and fitness. However, the underlying regulatory mechanisms are still poorly understood, particularly from a transcriptional perspective. To investigate the influence of different light regimes on tomato plants, three dynamic light (DL) regimes were designed, using a CL regime as control. Morphological, photosynthetic, and transcriptional differences after five weeks of treatment were compared. Leaf area, plant height, shoot /root weight, total chlorophyll content, photosynthetic rate, and stomatal conductance all significantly decreased in response to DL regimes. The biggest expression difference was found between the treatment with the highest light intensity at the middle of the day with a total of 1080 significantly up-/down-regulated genes. A total of 177 common differentially expressed genes were identified between DL and CL conditions. Finally, significant differences were observed in the levels of gene expression between DL and CL treatments in multiple pathways, predominantly of plant–pathogen interactions, plant hormone signal transductions, metabolites, and photosynthesis. These results expand the understanding of plant development and photosynthetic regulations under DL conditions by multiple pathways.

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (21) ◽  
pp. 11717
Author(s):  
Orsolya Kinga Gondor ◽  
Judit Tajti ◽  
Kamirán Áron Hamow ◽  
Imre Majláth ◽  
Gabriella Szalai ◽  
...  

Although the relationship between polyamines and photosynthesis has been investigated at several levels, the main aim of this experiment was to test light-intensity-dependent influence of polyamine metabolism with or without exogenous polyamines. First, the effect of the duration of the daily illumination, then the effects of different light intensities (50, 250, and 500 μmol m–2 s–1) on the polyamine metabolism at metabolite and gene expression levels were investigated. In the second experiment, polyamine treatments, namely putrescine, spermidine and spermine, were also applied. The different light quantities induced different changes in the polyamine metabolism. In the leaves, light distinctly induced the putrescine level and reduced the 1,3-diaminopropane content. Leaves and roots responded differently to the polyamine treatments. Polyamines improved photosynthesis under lower light conditions. Exogenous polyamine treatments influenced the polyamine metabolism differently under individual light regimes. The fine-tuning of the synthesis, back-conversion and terminal catabolism could be responsible for the observed different polyamine metabolism-modulating strategies, leading to successful adaptation to different light conditions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (25) ◽  
pp. 12550-12557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaynee E. Hart ◽  
Stuart Sullivan ◽  
Paweł Hermanowicz ◽  
Jan Petersen ◽  
L. Aranzazú Diaz-Ramos ◽  
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The ability to enhance photosynthetic capacity remains a recognized bottleneck to improving plant productivity. Phototropin blue light receptors (phot1 and phot2) optimize photosynthetic efficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana by coordinating multiple light-capturing processes. In this study, we explore the potential of using protein engineering to improve photoreceptor performance and thereby plant growth. We demonstrate that targeted mutagenesis can decrease or increase the photocycle lifetime of Arabidopsis phototropins in vitro and show that these variants can be used to reduce or extend the duration of photoreceptor activation in planta. Our findings show that slowing the phototropin photocycle enhanced several light-capturing responses, while accelerating it reduced phototropin’s sensitivity for chloroplast accumulation movement. Moreover, plants engineered to have a slow-photocycling variant of phot1 or phot2 displayed increased biomass production under low-light conditions as a consequence of their improved sensitivity. Together, these findings demonstrate the feasibility of engineering photoreceptors to manipulate plant growth and offer additional opportunities to enhance photosynthetic competence, particularly under suboptimal light regimes.


2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
E. Szabó ◽  
G. Bárdos ◽  
I. Nagy

In order to target factors involved in plant-pathogen interactions, gene expression differences were investigated on pepper ( Capsicum annuum L.) plants after artificial infection with the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria . Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism investigations on reverse transcribed DNA fragments (cDNA-AFLP) were used to compare the expression profiles of parental lines and of resistant and susceptible individuals from pepper populations segregating for the gds gene, which confers a general defence system in pepper. In total, 73 transcript-derived fragments (TDFs) displaying differential expression patterns could be identified (presence-absence and/or different time courses in resistant and susceptible genotypes). Of these, 67 fragments were cloned and sequenced. In the case of several TDFs, sequence comparisons revealed close homologies to genes known to be responsible for abiotic stress or biotic elicitors, presenting potentially interesting targets for more detailed studies on gene expression and signal transduction.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Rahimirad ◽  
Mohammad Navaderi ◽  
Shokoofeh Alaei ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Sanati

AbstractMultiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, demyelinating disease in which the neuron myelin sheath is disrupted and leading to signal transductions disabilities. The evidence demonstrated that gene expression patterns and their related regulating factors are the most critical agents in Multiple Sclerosis demyelinating process. A miRNA is a small non-coding RNA which functions in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. Identification of specific miRNA dysregulation patterns in multiple sclerosis blood samples compared to healthy control can be used as a diagnostic and prognostic agent. Through the literature review and bioinformatics analysis, it was found that the hsa-miR-106a-5p can be considered as a significant MS pathogenic factor, which seems has an abnormal expression pattern in patients’ blood. Experimental validation using Real-Time PCR assay was carried to verifying the miR-106a-5p expression in Multiple Sclerosis and healthy control blood samples. The obtained results proved the miR-106a dysregulation in MS patients. The expression levels of miR-106a-5p were significantly down-regulated (Fold change=0.44) in patient blood samples compared to controls (p=0.059). Our study suggested that miR-106a-5p may have a biomarker potential to the diagnosis of MS patients based on its dysregulation patterns in Multiple Sclerosis blood.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Jueterbock ◽  
Bernardo Duarte ◽  
James Coyer ◽  
Jeanine L. Olsen ◽  
Martina Elisabeth Luise Kopp ◽  
...  

Due to rising global surface temperatures, Arctic habitats are becoming thermally suitable for temperate species. Whether a temperate species can immigrate into an ice-free Arctic depends on its ability to tolerate extreme seasonal fluctuations in daylength. Thus, understanding adaptations to polar light conditions can improve the realism of models predicting poleward range expansions in response to climate change. Plant adaptations to polar light have rarely been studied and remain unknown in seagrasses. If these ecosystem engineers can migrate polewards, seagrasses will enrich biodiversity, and carbon capture potential in shallow coastal regions of the Arctic. Eelgrass (Zostera marina) is the most widely distributed seagrass in the northern hemisphere. As the only seagrass species growing as far north as 70°N, it is the most likely candidate to first immigrate into an ice-free Arctic. Here, we describe seasonal (and diurnal) changes in photosynthetic characteristics, and in genome-wide gene expression patterns under strong annual fluctuations of daylength. We compared PAM measurements and RNA-seq data between two populations at the longest and shortest day of the year: (1) a Mediterranean population exposed to moderate annual fluctuations of 10–14 h daylength and (2) an Arctic population exposed to high annual fluctuations of 0–24 h daylength. Most of the gene expression specificities of the Arctic population were found in functions of the organelles (chloroplast and mitochondrion). In winter, Arctic eelgrass conserves energy by repressing respiration and reducing photosynthetic energy fluxes. Although light-reactions, and genes involved in carbon capture and carbon storage were upregulated in summer, enzymes involved in CO2 fixation and chlorophyll-synthesis were upregulated in winter, suggesting that winter metabolism relies not only on stored energy resources but also on active use of dim light conditions. Eelgrass is unable to use excessive amounts of light during summer and demonstrates a significant reduction in photosynthetic performance under long daylengths, possibly to prevent photoinhibition constrains. Our study identified key mechanisms that allow eelgrass to survive under Arctic light conditions and paves the way for experimental research to predict whether and up to which latitude eelgrass can potentially migrate polewards in response to climate change.


Pneumologie ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S8-S9
Author(s):  
M Bauer ◽  
H Kirsten ◽  
E Grunow ◽  
P Ahnert ◽  
M Kiehntopf ◽  
...  

Zuriat ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nono Carsono ◽  
Christian Bachem

Tuberization in potato is a complex developmental process resulting in the differentiation of stolon into the storage organ, tuber. During tuberization, change in gene expression has been known to occur. To study gene expression during tuberization over the time, in vitro tuberization system provides a suitable tool, due to its synchronous in tuber formation. An early six days axillary bud growing on tuber induction medium is a crucial development since a large number of genes change in their expression patterns during this period. In order to identify, isolate and sequencing the genes which displaying differential pattern between tuberizing and non-tuberizing potato explants during six days in vitro tuberization, cDNA-AFLP fingerprint, method for the visualization of gene expression using cDNA as template which is amplified to generate an RNA-fingerprinting, was used in this experiment. Seventeen primer combinations were chosen based on their expression profile from cDNA-AFLP fingerprint. Forty five TDFs (transcript derived fragment), which displayed differential expressions, were obtained. Tuberizing explants had much more TDFs, which developmentally regulated, than those from non tuberizing explants. Seven TDFs were isolated, cloned and then sequenced. One TDF did not find similarity in the current databases. The nucleotide sequence of TDF F showed best similarity to invertase ezymes from the databases. The homology of six TDFs with known sequences is discussed in this paper.


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