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2012
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Jens Rohloff Joachim Kopka Alexander Erban Per Winge Robert Charles Wilson Atle M. Bones Jahn Davik Stephen K, Randall Muath AlsheikhAbstract
Winter freezing damage is a crucial factor in overwintering crops such as the octoploid strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) when grown in a perennial cultivation system. Our study aimed at assessing metabolic processes and regulatory mechanisms in the close-related diploid model woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca L.) during a 10-days cold acclimation experiment. Based on gas chromatography/ time-of-flight-mass spectrometry (GC/TOF-MS) metabolite profiling of three F. vesca genotypes, clear distinctions could be made between leaves and non-photosynthesizing roots, underscoring the evolvement of organ-dependent cold acclimation strategies. Carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism, photosynthetic acclimation, and antioxidant and detoxification systems (ascorbate pathway) were strongly affected. Metabolic changes in F. vesca included the strong modulation of central metabolism, and induction of osmotically-active sugars (fructose, glucose), amino acids (aspartatic acid), and amines (putrescine). In contrast, a distinct impact on the amino acid proline, known to be cold-induced in other plant systems, was conspicuously absent. Levels of galactinol and raffinose, key metabolites of the cold-inducible raffinose pathway, were drastically enhanced in both leaves and roots throughout the cold acclimation period of 10 days. Furthermore, initial freezing tests and multifaceted GC/TOF-MS data processing (Venn diagrams, Independent Component Analysis, Hierarchical Clustering) showed that changes in metabolite pools of cold-acclimated F. vesca were clearly influenced by genotype.
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Jens Rohloff Pankaj Barah Per Winge Jahn Davik Robert Wilson Stephen K, Randall Atle M. Bones Muath Alsheikh-YousefAbstract
Freezing damage is a crucial factor in the cultivation of perennial crops. Overwintering plants acclimate to decreasing temperatures in their environment and thus, prevent freezing damage of plant tissue. To assess transcriptional and metabolic changes in meristematic tissue (crowns) of octoploid strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.), acclimation experiments were carried out at above-zero temperature (2 °C) using three cultivars with contrasting cold tolerance: ‘Elsanta’ < ‘Frida’ < ‘Jonsok’. Crowns were sampled after 1 day (d), 2d, 2 weeks (w) and 6w in order to detect short- and long-term metabolic shifts. GC/MS-based metabolite profiling revealed more than 140 metabolites (identified structures, not-annotated mass spectral tags, and unidentified metabolites). Transcriptional changes were assessed at two time points (2d and 6w) using a customized Fragaria microarray chip developed as a joint collaboration between Graminor Breeding Ltd. and NTNU. A total of 4061 differentially regulated transcripts (unique 60-mer probes) with a p-value≤0.05 were detected in all hybridizations. Microarray analysis revealed the up-regulation of ~100 cold-responsive transcripts (TFs and dehydrins), also including enzymes involved in starch breakdown and raffinose biosynthesis. Gene-metabolite correlation analysis revealed strong connectivity in components of Krebs-cycle (citric and succinic acid), amino acids (isoleucine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, valine and phenylalanine) and the raffinose pathway. Metabolite levels of hexoses (fructose and glucose), trisaccharides (raffinose), amino acids (aspartic acid, alanine and serine), phenols (gallic acid) and several polyphenols still increased during long-term acclimation phase. Varietal differences could be clearly explained by Venn diagrams: frost-tolerant ‘Jonsok’ showed least individual up- or down-regulated transcripts (2 d), and least commonly shared transcripts with frost-sensitive ‘Elsanta’ (2d and 6w). Further multivariate statistics and network analyses underscored genotype-dependent cold responses, and might further guide in the identification of frost-tolerant vs. sensitive plants in diverse Fragaria accessions or cross-breeding populations .
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Abdelhameed Elameen DenisTourvieille de Labrouhe Emmanuelle Mestries Sonja Klemsdal Sophia Ahmed François DelmotteAbstract
Plasmopara halstedii is a diploid oomycete plant pathogen causing downy mildew on sunflower (Helianthus annuus). Due to changes in cultural systems and the introduction of new exotic cultivars, the pathogen developed many races and have now become a serious problem affecting sunflower growing fields in Europe. The yield losses in sunflower crop caused by P. halstedii can be up to 85 %.
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Abdelhameed Elameen DenisTourvieille de Labrouhe Emmanuelle Mestries Sonja Klemsdal Sophia AhmedAbstract
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Even Riiser Ingrid Holtsmark Hege Særvold Steen S. Swaminathan Navin Khanna Ralph Bock Jihong Liu ClarkeAbstract
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Even Riiser Ingrid Holtsmark Hege Særvold Steen S. Swaminathan Navin Khanna Ralph Bock Jihong Liu ClarkeAbstract
The global spread of dengue fever threatens a large percentage of the world’s population. The disease causes great human suffering, a high mortality from dengue haemorrhagic fever and its complications, and major costs. There is currently no vaccine to prevent dengue virus infection. Our project aims to express a tetravalent vaccine candidate in tobacco chloroplasts, a cost effective system, and hence to contribute to innovation and bio-economy as a long term goal.
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The development of new tools able to select specific plant tissue is crucial for gene expression studies. During the last years, the use of laser microdissection, mainly tested on herbaceous plant tissue, has been found to be a useful technique for these purposes. This method is poorly tested on woody species, and so far no studies of gene expression have been applied on forest trees. For this reason the present work proposes the optimization of a functional protocol using laser microdissection pressure catapulting (LMPC) and real-time reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in bark stem tissue of Norway spruce (Picea abies). Bark tissue fragments were collected from Norway spruce trees and sliced with a cryostat. RNA was extracted from both whole cross-sections and microdissected bark cells. The feasibility of the method was confirmed by the amplification of the α-tubulin, an endogenous gene of P. abies, with efficiency comparable to that obtained from non-microdissected tissue. The proposed protocol, here adapted for bark tissue of woody species, represents a useful tool in a wide range of hosts that, unlike herbaceous plants, have scarcely been considered up to now.