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PLoS One ; 12(3): e0174425, 2017.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28355304

ABSTRACT

Sucrose non-fermenting 1-related protein kinases (SnRKs) comprise a major family of signaling genes in plants and are associated with metabolic regulation, nutrient utilization and stress responses. This gene family has been proposed to be involved in sucrose signaling. In the present study, we cloned three copies of the TaSnRK2.10 gene from bread wheat on chromosomes 4A, 4B and 4D. The coding sequence (CDS) is 1086 bp in length and encodes a protein of 361 amino acids that exhibits functional domains shared with SnRK2s. Based on the haplotypes of TaSnRK2.10-4A (Hap-4A-H and Hap-4A-L), a cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) marker designated TaSnRK2.10-4A-CAPS was developed and mapped between the markers D-1092101 and D-100014232 using a set of recombinant inbred lines (RILs). The TaSnRK2.10-4B alleles (Hap-4B-G and Hap-4B-A) were transformed into allele-specific PCR (AS-PCR) markers TaSnRK2.10-4B-AS1 and TaSnRK2.10-4B-AS2, which were located between the markers D-1281577 and S-1862758. No diversity was found for TaSnRK2.10-4D. An association analysis using a natural population consisting of 128 winter wheat varieties in multiple environments showed that the thousand grain weight (TGW) and spike length (SL) of Hap-4A-H were significantly higher than those of Hap-4A-L, but pant height (PH) was significantly lower.


Subject(s)
Crops, Agricultural/genetics , Genes, Plant , Plant Proteins/genetics , Protein Kinases/genetics , Triticum/genetics , Chromosome Mapping , Chromosomes, Plant/genetics , Cloning, Molecular , Crops, Agricultural/growth & development , DNA, Plant/genetics , DNA, Plant/isolation & purification , Genetic Association Studies , Haplotypes , Phenotype , Promoter Regions, Genetic , Triticum/growth & development
3.
Plant Physiol ; 167(3): 872-86, 2015 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25560880

ABSTRACT

Plant hormones modulate plant growth, development, and defense. However, many aspects of the origin and evolution of plant hormone signaling pathways remain obscure. Here, we use a comparative genomic and phylogenetic approach to investigate the origin and evolution of nine major plant hormone (abscisic acid, auxin, brassinosteroid, cytokinin, ethylene, gibberellin, jasmonate, salicylic acid, and strigolactone) signaling pathways. Our multispecies genome-wide analysis reveals that: (1) auxin, cytokinin, and strigolactone signaling pathways originated in charophyte lineages; (2) abscisic acid, jasmonate, and salicylic acid signaling pathways arose in the last common ancestor of land plants; (3) gibberellin signaling evolved after the divergence of bryophytes from land plants; (4) the canonical brassinosteroid signaling originated before the emergence of angiosperms but likely after the split of gymnosperms and angiosperms; and (5) the origin of the canonical ethylene signaling pathway postdates shortly the emergence of angiosperms. Our findings might have important implications in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the emergence of land plants.


Subject(s)
Evolution, Molecular , Plant Growth Regulators/metabolism , Signal Transduction , Abscisic Acid , Brassinosteroids/metabolism , Bryophyta/metabolism , Cyclopentanes/metabolism , Cytokinins/metabolism , Ethylenes/metabolism , Gibberellins/metabolism , Indoleacetic Acids/metabolism , Lactones/metabolism , Magnoliopsida/metabolism , Oxylipins/metabolism , Phylogeny , Sequence Homology, Amino Acid , Species Specificity
5.
Theor Appl Genet ; 124(5): 851-65, 2012 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22089330

ABSTRACT

Nutrient use efficiency (NuUE), comprising nutrient uptake and utilization efficiency, is regarded as one of the most important factors for wheat yield. In the present study, six morphological, nine nutrient content and nine nutrient utilization efficiency traits were investigated at the seedling stage using a set of recombinant inbred lines (RILs), under hydroponic culture of 12 treatments including single nutrient levels and two- and three-nutrient combinations treatments of N, P and K. For the 12 designed treatments, a total of 380 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) on 20 chromosomes for the 24 traits were detected. Of these, 87, 149 and 144 QTLs for morphological, nutrient content and nutrient utilization efficiency traits were found, respectively. Using the data of the average value (AV) across 12 treatments, 70 QTLs were detected for 23 traits. Most QTLs were located in new marker regions. Twenty-six important QTL clusters were mapped on 13 chromosomes, 1A, 1B, 1D, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4A, 4B, 5D, 6A, 6B, 7A and 7B. Of these, ten clusters involved 147 QTLs (38.7%) for investigated traits, indicating that these 10 loci were more important for the NuUE of N, P and K. We found evidence for cooperative uptake and utilization (CUU) of N, P and K in the early growth period at both the phenotype and QTL level. The correlation coefficients (r) between nutrient content and nutrient utilization efficiency traits for N, P and K were almost all significantly positive correlations. A total of 32 cooperative CUU loci (L1-L32) were found, which included 190 out of the 293 QTLs (64.8%) for the nutrient uptake and utilization efficiency traits, indicating that the CUU-QTLs were common for N, P and K. The CUU-QTLs in L3, L7, L16 and L28 were relatively stable. The CUU-QTLs may explain the CUU phenotype at the QTL level.


Subject(s)
Phenotype , Quantitative Trait Loci/genetics , Seedlings/growth & development , Triticum/genetics , Analysis of Variance , China , Crosses, Genetic , Nitrogen/metabolism , Nitrogen/pharmacokinetics , Phosphorus/metabolism , Phosphorus/pharmacokinetics , Potassium/metabolism , Potassium/pharmacokinetics , Seedlings/metabolism , Triticum/growth & development , Triticum/metabolism
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Plant Sci ; 181(1): 65-75, 2011 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21600399

ABSTRACT

DArT and SSR markers were used to saturate and improve a previous genetic map of RILs derived from the cross Chuan35050 × Shannong483. The new map comprised 719 loci, 561 of which were located on specific chromosomes, giving a total map length of 4008.4 cM; the rest 158 loci were mapped to the most likely intervals. The average chromosome length was 190.9 cM and the marker density was 7.15 cM per marker interval. Among the 719 loci, the majority of marker loci were DArTs (361); the rest included 170 SSRs, 100 EST-SSRs, and 88 other molecular and biochemical loci. QTL mapping for fatty acid content in wheat grain was conducted in this study. Forty QTLs were detected in different environments, with single QTL explaining 3.6-58.1% of the phenotypic variations. These QTLs were distributed on 16 chromosomes. Twenty-two QTLs showed positive additive effects, with Chuan35050 increasing the QTL effects, whereas 18 QTLs were negative with increasing effects from Shannong483. Six sets of co-located QTLs for different traits occurred on chromosomes 1B, 1D, 2D, 5D, and 6B.


Subject(s)
Chromosome Mapping , Fatty Acids/analysis , Quantitative Trait Loci , Seeds/chemistry , Triticum/genetics , Chromosomes, Plant/genetics , Expressed Sequence Tags , Genetic Linkage , Genetic Markers , Genotype , Microsatellite Repeats , Plant Leaves/genetics , Seeds/genetics , Triticum/chemistry
7.
Virol J ; 7: 227, 2010 Sep 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20840780

ABSTRACT

The occurrence of homologous recombination in influenza viruses has been under some debate recently. To determine the extent of homologous recombination in influenza C virus, recombination analyses of all available gene sequences of influenza C virus were carried out. No recombination signal was found. With the previous evidence in influenza A and B viruses, it seems that homologous recombination has minimal or no effect on influenza virus evolution.


Subject(s)
Evolution, Molecular , Gammainfluenzavirus/genetics , Recombination, Genetic , Computational Biology , Humans , RNA, Viral/genetics , Sequence Analysis, DNA
8.
Fish Shellfish Immunol ; 26(2): 316-25, 2009 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18691655

ABSTRACT

Antibiotics are commonly employed in most fish aquacultures to prevent disease. One major risk in this practice is that antibiotic-resistant pathogens may be selected. Therefore, we wanted to examine the feasibility of producing an economical, non-antibiotic alternative. The microalga Nannochloropsis oculata is an essential phytoplankton used as live feed for fish larvae. We attempted to culture N. oculata in a way that would provide an organism against bacterial pathogenic infection. To test this idea, we constructed an algae-codon-optimized bovine lactoferricin (LFB) fused with a red fluorescent protein (DsRed) driven by a heat-inducible promoter, which is a heat shock protein 70A promoter combined with a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase small subunit 2' promoter from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. After electroporation, we examined 491 microalgal clones and generated two stable transgenic lines, each expressing a stable transgene inheritance for at least 26 months. This was confirmed by the positive detection of the mRNA transcript and the protein of LFB-DsRed produced by the transgenic microalgae. To test the efficacy of the antimicrobial peptide LFB, medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) were adapted from freshwater to seawater and were fed with the transgenic algae by oral-in-tube delivery method. Bacterial infection with 1 x 10(5)Vibrio parahaemolyticus per fish was induced 6h thereafter by oral-in-tube delivery as well. For medaka fish fed with 1 x 10(8) transgenic algae per fish, the average survival rate after a 24-h period of infection was much higher than that of medaka fed with wild-type algae (85+/-7.1% versus 5+/-7.1%). This result suggests that medaka fish fed with the LFB-containing transgenic microalgae will have bactericidal defense against V. parahaemolyticus infection in its digestive tract.


Subject(s)
Eukaryota/genetics , Eukaryota/metabolism , Fish Diseases/therapy , Gastrointestinal Tract/microbiology , Organisms, Genetically Modified , Oryzias/physiology , Vibrio Infections/veterinary , Algal Proteins/analysis , Algal Proteins/pharmacology , Animals , Blotting, Western , Lactoferrin/genetics , Lactoferrin/pharmacology , Oryzias/microbiology , Plasmids/genetics , Protoplasts/physiology , Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology , Survival Analysis , Vibrio Infections/therapy , Vibrio parahaemolyticus/physiology
10.
Virus Res ; 136(1-2): 198-201, 2008 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18550189

ABSTRACT

Canine distemper virus (CDV) has high prevalence in the world dog population and poses an important conservation threat to many carnivore species. In this study, extensive phylogenetic and recombination analyses were performed on all available complete haemagglutinin gene sequences and a strain (AF178038) isolated from giant panda was identified as putative recombinant. Interestingly, the mosaic was produced by recombination between genotypes European wildlife and Asia-1 and the recombination event involves viruses infecting different host species. This finding may have important implications for the evolution of CDV.


Subject(s)
Distemper Virus, Canine/genetics , Hemagglutinins, Viral/genetics , Recombination, Genetic , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Computational Biology , Distemper Virus, Canine/isolation & purification , Dogs , Evolution, Molecular , Molecular Sequence Data , Phylogeny , Sequence Alignment , Sequence Analysis , Sequence Homology , Ursidae/virology
11.
Virol J ; 5: 65, 2008 May 27.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18505573

ABSTRACT

Influenza B viruses cause a significant amount of morbidity and mortality. The occurrence of homologous recombination in influenza viruses is controversial. To determine the extent of homologous recombination in influenza B viruses, recombination analyses of 2,650 sequences representing all eight segments of the influenza B viruses were carried out. Only four sequences were indentified as putative recombinants, which were verified using phylogenetic methods. However, the mosaics detected here were much likely to represent cases of laboratory-generated artificial recombinants. As in other myxoviruses, it is unlikely that homologous recombination plays a major role in influenza B virus evolution.


Subject(s)
Evolution, Molecular , Influenza B virus/genetics , Recombination, Genetic , RNA, Viral/genetics , Sequence Analysis , Software
12.
J Phycol ; 44(3): 768-76, 2008 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27041435

ABSTRACT

Plasmid phr-YPGHc, containing the fish growth hormone (GH) cDNA driven by a heat shock protein 70A promoter and a RUBISCO SSU 2 promoter, was transferred into the protoplast of marine microalga Nannochloropsis oculata (Droop) D. J. Hibberd by electroporation. Four transgenic clones were obtained in which the transferred phr-YPGHc was integrated into the genome and existed stably at least until the 50th generation. When we treated these transgenic microalgae by heat shock, the heterologous fish GH was produced in the amount of 0.42 to 0.27 µg · mL(-1) from the 50 mL of medium. We incubated artemia with the wildtype and transgenic N. oculata for 6 h and then fed these microalgae-treated artemia to red-tilapia larvae. After feeding, the growth of larvae that were fed artemia incubated with transgenic microalgae was greater (i.e., statistically significant: P < 0.05) than that of larvae that were fed artemia incubated with nontransgenic microalgae: 316% versus 104% in weight gain, and 217% versus 146% in body length increase, respectively. Therefore, the N. oculata enables production of functional GH, and we propose that it might be an excellent bioreactor material.

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