Biotic and Abiotic stress
Navid Taherifar; Hengameh Taheri
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Heat stress has detrimental effects on the growth and performance of plants through biochemical, physiological, morphological, and molecular changes. Plants have developed complex mechanisms to balance growth and tolerance to stress, allowing them to effectively defend against more severe stresses by ...
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Heat stress has detrimental effects on the growth and performance of plants through biochemical, physiological, morphological, and molecular changes. Plants have developed complex mechanisms to balance growth and tolerance to stress, allowing them to effectively defend against more severe stresses by remembering mild stress and forming heat stress memory, known as thermopriming. To investigate the role of thermopriming in inducing the transcription response of HSFA2, HSFA1b and MIPS2 genes, the changes in the transcriptional level of the genes were studied at different times after priming and return stress in canola seedlings using the qRT-PCR technique. The results showed that the expression of these genes was not stable during the recovery period after the initial mild stress (memory phase), while their transcription level immediately after facing the second severe stress was induced at a much higher level in primed plants (P+T treatment) compared to non-primed plants (T treatment) which continued until 48 hours after return stress. Also, morphological analysis of seedlings at 7 and 14 days after release from the second stress showed that thermopriming increase the growth indices and heat tolerance in these plants through strengthening the expression of stress memory genes. Since the HSFA1b, HSFA2 and MIPS2 genes have maintained their expression level until days after the return stress, these genes can be the key components of the transcriptional memory of heat stress and be used in breeding programs and the development of heat tolerant varieties.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Arezoo Asl alizade; Mahmoud Toorchi; Ali Bandehhagh
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Salinity is one of the most important environmental stresses that disrupt the natural growth of plants. Plant use different mechanisms to cope with stress conditions, such as salinity, in which changes in protein expression is the most important one at molecular level. Changes in protein expression depends ...
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Salinity is one of the most important environmental stresses that disrupt the natural growth of plants. Plant use different mechanisms to cope with stress conditions, such as salinity, in which changes in protein expression is the most important one at molecular level. Changes in protein expression depends on their physicochemical changes such as half- life, stability index, iso-electric point, molecular weight, extinction coefficient etc. Furtermore, identification of motifs, patterns and protein domains make it possible to predict changes in the conformation, structure and proteins functions. In this research was selected a number of changed protein in expression under salinity stress in wheat based on the previous proteomic studies for further was selected bioinformatic analysis. Study Physicochemical properties of proteins by ProtParam software, identification of domains by InterProScan and CDD, identification patters for prediction of post translational modification by ScanProsite, similarity by Blast, alignment of similar proteins for identification of conserved block was performed by T-Coffee. Out of the 25 proteins associated with salinity stress, 20 proteins have a half-life more than 20 hours. The molecular weight of these proteins was varied between 13 to 117 kDa and 15 protein showed instability index of less than 40 and therefore classified as stable proteins. Investigation of proteins using TMHMM and Protscale softwares, it was found that Aquaporins, Plasma membrane intrinsic proteins, Plasma membrane ATPase and Rust resistance kinase Lr10 are highly hydrophobic proteins, whose major structure located inside the membranes. Out of 25 proteins, 8 proteins were selected and analyzed for identification of patterns, domains, structure and function. α-tubulin as a monomer participates with -tubulin to make α-tubulin dimer. Tubulin create a major part of microtubules that are essential for cell growth and division. This protein consisted of one pattern, Tubulin subunits alpha, beta and gamma signature domain namly PLN00221. For the Triosphosphate isomerase protein, a domain called TIM, which is involved in the catalytic mechanism and for the Calmodulin protein a domain called PTZ00184 was identified which is a calcium binding domain. For the Putative glycine decarbixylase subunit a domain called PRK01202 has been identified that has carboxylase activity. For Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase protein the domain called as SOD is involved in the absorption of superoxide. For Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase protein, the catalytic converter domain was identified as PLV02455 and for Hsp 70- Hsp 90 organizing protein, STI1 domain was identified with ATPase property. For the 2- Cys peroxiredoxin BAS 1 protein, for the PRX-Typ 2 cys domain that plays an important role in regulating oxidation- cell reduction.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Zohreh Hajibarat; Abbas Saidi; MohammadReza Ghaffari; Mehrshad Zeinalabedini
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Plants use a variety of strategies to cope with abiotic stress, depending on the species and the growth of the plant. Abiotic stresses such as drought is the most important stress that affects yield of agricultural products. In addition, drought stress is one of the main limiting factors in plant growth, ...
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Plants use a variety of strategies to cope with abiotic stress, depending on the species and the growth of the plant. Abiotic stresses such as drought is the most important stress that affects yield of agricultural products. In addition, drought stress is one of the main limiting factors in plant growth, it can also inhibit respiration, photosynthesis, and thus affects the growth and physiological metabolism of plants. Plants activate several mechanisms such as morphological and structural changes as well as the expression of drought-resistant genes, the synthesis of hormones and osmotic regulators to reduce drought stress. Drought accelerates grain leaf senescence, altering the expression of thousands of genes and ultimately affecting grain protein content and grain yield. However, the genotypic variability exists for drought induced disruption and tolerance in barley. In this review, the approaches can help for improving barley genotypes in response to drought stress through breeding and physiological traits, genetic engineering, and marker-assisted selection (MAS). We detected genes and proteins involved in response to drought-tolerance using proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics approaches. Also, the introduced Quatitatives Traits Loci (QTLs) related to yield and Stay green and physiological traits found in this study can be used for MAS in barley improvement for drought tolerance in the future. In particular, comparative studies of genetically diverse germplasm exposed to adverse conditions such as drought provide valuable insights into plant responses to stress and create information on biochemical pathways involved in adaptation to environmental limitations. Proper evaluation of omics data can help the biomarker discovery.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Maryam Faramarzi Jafar Beiglou; Farhad Nazarian-Firouzabadi; Seyed Sajad Sohrabi; Ali Moghadam
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Plant diseases, particularly diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes pose significant challenges in modern agriculture worldwide. Pathogen associated molecular pattern (PAMP) like chitin found in the cell walls of fungi and oomycetes, trigger defence signalling, leading to expression of R-genes and the ...
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Plant diseases, particularly diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes pose significant challenges in modern agriculture worldwide. Pathogen associated molecular pattern (PAMP) like chitin found in the cell walls of fungi and oomycetes, trigger defence signalling, leading to expression of R-genes and the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and accumulation of a wide range of metabolites. Chitin elicitors prompt the expression of defence-related genes such as chitinases, ultimately the resulting in the breakdown of chitin in the pathogen's cell wall. To assess the expression level of certain chitinases in potatoes and the activity of antioxidant enzymes, leaves of a tolerant potato genotype (jelly) was challenged with chitin oligomers in vitro. Result of this study revealed that 48 hours post chitin induction, the expression of different classes of chitinase genes were significantly increased. Class I chitinase (Soltu.DM.10G017450) and class III chitinase (Soltu.DM.11G026160) genes, had respectively the highest (5.5-fold relative to control) and the lowest (1.1-fold relative to control) expression level after 48 hours post chitin inoculation. However, the activities of antioxidant enzymes catalase and ascorbate peroxidase did not change significantly compared to the control. These findings suggest that the application of chitin does not activate the signaling pathways involved in the biosynthesis of antioxidant enzymes 48 hours after chitin treatment. In addition, results of this study may imply that chitinase genes can be cloned by genetic engineering approaches to generate transgenic plants resistant to pathogens.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Alireza Tarang
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Rice (Oryza sativa) is very sensitive to drought stress because of its limited adaptation to water-deficit conditions. Drought stress alters morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses in plant. In this study, the effects of drought stress on morphological traits and expression ...
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Rice (Oryza sativa) is very sensitive to drought stress because of its limited adaptation to water-deficit conditions. Drought stress alters morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses in plant. In this study, the effects of drought stress on morphological traits and expression of transcription factor genes DREB2A and ZFP252 at vegetative and reproductive stages were investigated in TH1 line (drought sensitive) and Neda (drought tolerant). Drought stress was induced by stopping irrigation at tillering and heading stages. Investigation of morphological traits showed tiller and panicle numbers as production indices were significantly higher in Neda cultivar than TH1 line. Real Time PCR Neda genotype showed a significant increase (3.217 expression ratio) in expression of transcript level of ZFP252 at vegetative stage under drought stress. This indicates the importance of this drought stress responsive gene in acquisition of drought tolerance in this genotype at this stage. Investigation of expression level changes in TH1 line showed significant increase in DREB2A and ZFP252 genes expression under drought stress at the vegetative stage. Gene expression analysis in this study suggesting that tolerant and sensitive plants may be using genetic regulations and different mechanisms to be exposed to stress conditions. Deciphering of these molecular mechanisms will aid to better understand stress tolerance and to select strategies for improving crop productivity facing climate change.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Ali Maleki; Leila Zarei; Sohbat Bahraminejad; Kianoosh Cheghamirza; Leila Akbari; Fardin Fatahi
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Germination is one of the most important stages of crop plant growth and proper germination in a wide range of environmental conditions is necessary for plant establishment. In this research, 20 varieties of Iranian barley and 24 varieties of European barley were used in three salinity levels (100, 200 ...
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Germination is one of the most important stages of crop plant growth and proper germination in a wide range of environmental conditions is necessary for plant establishment. In this research, 20 varieties of Iranian barley and 24 varieties of European barley were used in three salinity levels (100, 200 and 300 mM sodium chloride) and a control level (distilled water) in order to investigate the tolerance of salinity stress in the germination stage, as a factorial test based on a completely randomized design with three replications in the mushroom cultivation chamber with controllable temperature and light and sterile conditions in the Nosoud agricultural service center by a protein marker in the biotechnology laboratory of the agriculture and natural resources of Razi university. The results of analysis of variance of traits related to germination showed that the effect of salinity, cultivar and salinity × cultivar were significant for all traits. By increasing the salinity level from 0 to 300 mM, all traits and indices decreased except the average germination time. The germination percentage had a positive and significant correlation with the total seedling length, shoot length, seed germination index, average germination rate and germination rate index. Stepwise regression analysis of different traits with protein markers showed that there were 13 bands associated with different traits. The most significant correlation with traits was related to the 60 kDa marker which was related four indices of seed germ, average germination speed, shoot length and cleoptile length. After the validation studies and confirmation of the results, the identified markers can be used in marker-assisted selection for related traits.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Rasoul Khodaverdivand Keshtiban; Hassan Soltanloo; Seyedeh Sanaz Ramazanpour; Vahid Shariati
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Surveying the response and evaluating the salinity tolerance of wheat crop at the molecular level can be considered an important strategy in perception and comparing the defense mechanisms of wheat cultivars. For this purpose, a factorial experiment was conducted at Gorgan university of agricultural ...
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Surveying the response and evaluating the salinity tolerance of wheat crop at the molecular level can be considered an important strategy in perception and comparing the defense mechanisms of wheat cultivars. For this purpose, a factorial experiment was conducted at Gorgan university of agricultural sciences and natural resources based on a completely randomized design with three replications in which the experimental factors were included wheat crop cultivars (Sarc 6 as tolerant cultivar and Chinese spring as susceptible cultivar) and sampling time series (control or 0, 24, 48, 72, 96 h after stress). In this experiment, salinity stress with a concentration of 250 mM of sodium chloride was applied to uniform 10-day seedlings in the two-leaf stage, and sampling of root and shoot tissues was performed. Then the amount of sodium and potassium ions and the relative expression of SOS1 and NHX1 genes were measured by the qPCR method in the following. The obtained results indicated that after applying salinity stress, the amount of Na+ in the shoot and root of both cultivars had raised trend with increasing sampling time. But about in the amount of K+, depending on the plant organ, the response of the two cultivars and the trend of variations were different. Also the results showed that the expression pattern of SOS1 and NHX1 genes in the shoot and root of both cultivars, did not have a regular trend. In general, it can be concluded that in the root of the Sarc 6 cultivar, faster and more accumulation of genes transcript was evident. This issue indicates that the essential role of these genes in the root for reducing sodium ion absorption and establishing ionic homeostasis.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Fatemeh Bavandpouri; Ezatollah Farshadfar; Kianoosh Chegamirza; Mohsen Farshadfar; Mohammad Bihamta
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This study was aimed to investigate the reaction of wheat different genotypes to callus induction in the mature embryo stage and the relationship between the traits obtained from the tissue culture and the agronomic traits. A field experiment was conducted in the form of randomized complete block design ...
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This study was aimed to investigate the reaction of wheat different genotypes to callus induction in the mature embryo stage and the relationship between the traits obtained from the tissue culture and the agronomic traits. A field experiment was conducted in the form of randomized complete block design with three replications under rainfed and irrigated conditions in Razi University. In the callus induction stage, mature embryos of 25 bread wheat genotypes from a factorial experiment in the form of a completely randomized basic design including two factors, genotype at 25 levels and 2, 4-D hormone at 3 levels of 1, 2 and 3 mg/L and kinetin 0.2 mg/L was used in six replications. Variance analysis in tissue culture conditions showed that there is a significant difference between genotypes in terms of all investigated traits except the percentage of relative water content of callus. Cluster analysis under laboratory and field conditions showed that genotypes No. 15 (WC-47638), 6 (WC-4840), 13 (WC-5001), 18 (WC-47569) and the Pishtaz cultivar were jointly superior in both conditions and they took the highest values of callus diameter, callus fresh weight, callus growth rate, grain yield, chaff yield, xteragen length, grain weight per spike, peduncle to height ratio, harvest index, seed filling period, vegetative growth rate and seed filling rate. Based on the path analysis in irrigation conditions, the traits of 1000 seed weight, number of seeds per spike, vegetative growth rate, length of other internodes, number of spikes per square meter, grain weight per spike and days to appearance of spike have the most direct effect on tissue culture traits. Also, according to the first canonical function for tissue culture traits (V1) and agronomic traits (W1) in rainfed conditions, plants with higher values of grain yield, larger callus diameter, and with a higher weight of 1000 seeds have a higher callus growth rate and in irrigation conditions, plants with high grain yield and grain weight per spike, callus growth speed is higher. Based on the obtained results, the investigated traits are suitable criteria for selecting cultivars in in vivo and in vitro conditions.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Khosro Mafakheri; Mostafa Valizadeh; Seyed Abolghasem Mohammadi
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Abiotic stresses, especially water deficit stress in plants, cause oxidative stress and as a result, they produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cause serious damage to the DNA, protein and internal structure of plants. Plants have enzymatic and non-enzymatic defense mechanisms and systems to deal ...
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Abiotic stresses, especially water deficit stress in plants, cause oxidative stress and as a result, they produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cause serious damage to the DNA, protein and internal structure of plants. Plants have enzymatic and non-enzymatic defense mechanisms and systems to deal with these stresses. Currently due to climate changes, Water deficit stress is one of the problems of agricultural production. Given the importance of molecular studies and molecular and enzymatic responses of plants under abiotic stress conditions, therefore, relative expression of catalase and DREB-2 genes were studied by RT-PCR and catalase enzymatic activity were studied in SC706 and SC260 genotypes. The experiment was performed as a split plot based on a randomized complete block design with three replications and three irrigation conditions of (normal irrigation, intermediate stress and severe water deficit stress) under field condition. Results of relative expression analysis of genes showed a significant difference between the treatments so that by increasing the intensity of water stress compared to normal irrigation, the amount of enzyme activity and relative expression of the studied genes were increased. Under severe and intermediate water deficit stress, compared to normal irrigation, DREB-2 gene showed the highest increase with 690 and 211% respectively. In this study, based on the activity of catalase enzyme and the expression of CAT genes, DREB2 of SC706 genotype had higher performance than SC260, more appropriate physiological-molecular behavior and more expression of genes, which indicates more tolerance of SC706 genotype than SC260. The stress conditions applied in this study are the results that can be used in molecular breeding programs of maize.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Zahra Hajibarat; Abbas Saidi; Ahmad Mosuapour Gorji; Mehrshad Zeinalabedini; Mohammad reza Ghaffari; Rahim Ahmadvand
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Potato virus Y (PVY) and Potato virus X (PVX) are the most important potato-infecting agent causing yield loss and tuber quality reduction. In this study, an experiment was conducted in Karaj, Iran, to investigate the effects of mentioned viruses on the yield and resistance level of 33 potato genotypes. ...
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Potato virus Y (PVY) and Potato virus X (PVX) are the most important potato-infecting agent causing yield loss and tuber quality reduction. In this study, an experiment was conducted in Karaj, Iran, to investigate the effects of mentioned viruses on the yield and resistance level of 33 potato genotypes. The experiment was performed based on randomized complete design in factorial format under two levels viruses with three replications. The results revealed that the viral infection had a significant impact on mean yield, seed yield (tuber size 35-55), ware yield (tuber size > 55 mm), and non-marketable yield (tuber size< 35). Based on cluster analysis for PVY, cluster VII was considered maximum resistant genotypes to PVY in terms mean absorption and yield, while cluster VI was identified susceptible genotypes in to PVY. According to cluster analysis of PVX virus, cluster I was considered highest resistant genotypes in terms mean absorption and yield and cluster III were maximum susceptible genotypes to PVX infection. Results of this study showed that genotype G23 with a mean-absorption of 0.01 and 0.032 for PVY and PVX, respectively, and mean yield of 4.1 kg/m2 was considered as a highly resistant genotype to both viruses. The concurrent selection of genotypes for high yield and resistant to both viruses (PVX and PVY) can facilitate potato breeding programs.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Rahil Dowlatabadi; Hajar Shayesteh; Amin Mirshamsi Kakhki; Mohammad Zare Mehrjerdi; Alireza Seifi
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Broomrape (Orobanche aegyptica) is a notorious parasitic plant that cause significant production loss. Here we report analysis of publicly available RNA-seq data for broomrape, coupled with experimental verification of part of the results. After quality control of raw illumine reads, qualified reads ...
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Broomrape (Orobanche aegyptica) is a notorious parasitic plant that cause significant production loss. Here we report analysis of publicly available RNA-seq data for broomrape, coupled with experimental verification of part of the results. After quality control of raw illumine reads, qualified reads were mapped against Orobanch transcriptome. Differential gene expression analysis, performed by using DESeq package, identified 391 differentially expressed genes between seed imbibition and haustorium attachment stages. The expression of orthologs of these genes in close relatives of Orobanch, which are parasitic, hemi- or non-parasitic, was investigated. From 391 identified genes, 87 genes showed high levels of expression in parasitic relatives and not in non-parasitic ones. Based on these analyses the 87 genes were considered as candidate genes involved in establishment of parasitic interaction between Orobanch and its host. The expression of nine of these genes were checked experimentally in flower tissues of Orobanch and in tissues sampled from the attachment site on the host root. The expression of Or2094, which a putative serine-carboxy peptidase, was detected only in the attachment site, supporting the role of this gene in establishment of the parasitic interaction. The results of this work will pave the way for future genetic engineering projects to use host-induced gene silencing strategy to enhance resistance to Orobanch in host crop plants.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Maryam Chalekaei; Ali Dehestani; Ali reza Abbasi; Seyyed Hamidreza Hashemi-petroudi
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In this study, the type and frequency of regulatory elements in the promoter regions of DVL gene family in Aeluropus littoralis were studied. Relative expression of AlDVL8 gene as a member of this family was also measured under the salinity stress, salicylic acid, gibberellic acid and cytokinin. The ...
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In this study, the type and frequency of regulatory elements in the promoter regions of DVL gene family in Aeluropus littoralis were studied. Relative expression of AlDVL8 gene as a member of this family was also measured under the salinity stress, salicylic acid, gibberellic acid and cytokinin. The results of the promoter study indicated that, this gene family has different regulatory elements for responding to stresses and hormones. Some of these regulatory elements are present in the promoter region of all genes, possibly indicating the general role of DVLs. Some others are present only in the promoter region of some genes that may be related to their specific activity. Treatments other than cytokinin increased gene expression in the shoot at 3, 12, and 24 hours and decreased expression at 6 hours. Cytokinin treatment at all times increased gene expression. In the root, almost the reverse trend of gene expression was observed, so that at 6 hours, increased gene expression was observed in all treatments, and at 12 and 24 hours, decreased expression was observed in all treatments. The results of this study showed that the expression of AlDVL8 gene in shoot and root organs was induced by experimental treatments and its expression was inverse in these two different tissues. Due to the changes in hormones during stress, expression induction of this gene family, and the presence of stress-responsive elements in the promoter regions of these genes, this gene family can be suggested as a candidate for stress tolerance.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Soroush Saberi Mahmoodabaadi; Saeedreza Vessal; Abdolreza Bagheri; Saeed Malekzadeh Shafaroudi
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Chickpea is the second most important pulses in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. This product is often cultivated as rainfed crop, so drought stress causing 50% yield loss. In this research, 11 SSR and 6 CAPS primer pairs were used to evaluate genetic variation among 9 chickpea candidate genotypes ...
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Chickpea is the second most important pulses in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. This product is often cultivated as rainfed crop, so drought stress causing 50% yield loss. In this research, 11 SSR and 6 CAPS primer pairs were used to evaluate genetic variation among 9 chickpea candidate genotypes for drought tolerant and 2 common sensitive cultivars. Ten effective SSRs were again evaluated in a population containing random genotypes for cold-tolerance. SRR band analysis in final experiment generated 40 alleles, of which 37 were polymorphic. The average number of polymorphic alleles for each gene site was 3.9 with the range of 2-9 alleles. The polymorphic information content (PIC) varied from 0.21 to 0.85. The cluster analysis, based on the UPGMA algorithm and Jaccard's similarity coefficient, splited the genotypes into nine distinct groups including four groups of drought tolerant genotypes, two relatively drought tolerant groups and other three groups belonging to the random population. The polymorphism results of the SSR and CAPS markers indicated that the two genotypes MCC544 and MCC392 were more distinctive from other drought tolerant genotypes. MCC537 and MCC696 were also highly related in a separate group, and the MCC80 was allocated in average position among tolerant genotypes. MCC427 and a common cultivar MCC358 were classified into one group as well as the international cultivar MCC252 with MCC302 genotypes. The results indicated the lack of a genetic similarity between selected population of drought tolerant candidates and cold tolerant candidates. This could indicate that there might be no pleiotropic effect among the genes involved in these stresses, which can be important for breeding purposes of this crop.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Behnaz Dolatabadi; Gholam Ali Ranjbar; Hamid Najafi-Zarrini; Seyyed Hamidreza Hashemi-Petroudi
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Dehydrins (DNHs) belong to group II of LEA (Late Embryogenesis Abundant) protein family which are expressed in late embryogenesis and accumulate in vegetative tissues in response to multiple abiotic stresses such as salt, drought and cold stress These proteins could be classified to five subgroups (YnSKn, ...
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Dehydrins (DNHs) belong to group II of LEA (Late Embryogenesis Abundant) protein family which are expressed in late embryogenesis and accumulate in vegetative tissues in response to multiple abiotic stresses such as salt, drought and cold stress These proteins could be classified to five subgroups (YnSKn, Kn, SKn, KnS, and YnKn) based on the sequence and number of K, S, and Y segments. In this study, 5 genes encoding dehydrin protein (DHN) were identified in Aeluropus littoralis, genome as a halophyte grass, belonging to the Poaceae family and physicochemical characteristics, cell localization, conserved motifs and gene structure were determined and evolutionary relationships among different species were considered. AlDHN proteins were classified in the YnSKn subgroup based on highly conserved domains. The expression pattern of AlDHN.5 gene as a homologue of RAB18 (AT5G66400) gene was examined in both leaf and root tissues under salinity, drought, cold stresses and abscisic acid treatment. Analysis of the expression pattern of this gene in both leaf and root tissues showed that this gene is more expressed in leaf tissue compared to root under drought, cold stresses and ABA treatment. Current study lays the foundation for further studies into the regulation of their expression under various environmental conditions.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Zahra Ebrahimipour; Reza Darvishzadeh; Sorour Arzhang
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High concentration of salt in soil and water is one of the major factors limiting crop growth and production worldwide. A factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with two biological and three technical replicates was performed in 2018-2019 to study the ion leakage rate and chanes in ...
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High concentration of salt in soil and water is one of the major factors limiting crop growth and production worldwide. A factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with two biological and three technical replicates was performed in 2018-2019 to study the ion leakage rate and chanes in relative expression of SOS1, P5CS1 and PMP3-6 genes in the root and leaf of Zea mays L. tolerant and susceptible lines under normal and 8 dS/m salinity conditions using real-time PCR technique after 24-hours and 7-days (as short-time and long-time, respectively) of applying salt stress. The results showed that ion leakage rate at long-time was high in the susceptible line than that of the tolerant line. The highest relative expression of P5CS1 and PMP3-6 genes in 8 dS/m salinity stress was observed in the roots of tolerant line. In contrast, the highest increase in the reltive expression of SOS1 gene was observed in the leaf tissue of susceptible line at short-time. Correlation analysis among the relative expression of studied genes revealed a positive significant correlation (P≤0.05) between P5CS1 and PMP3-6 genes expression. Probabiliy, the high expression of PMP3-6 and P5CS1 genes in the root tissue of the tolerant line in the ealier time post salt stress application is responsible for regulating osmotic pressure and preventing excessive Na+ entry into the plant that results in icreasing the tolerance of plant to salt stress. The results of this study can be useful in Zea mays L. breeding programs for producing salinity tolerant varieties.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Mehraneh Taslimi; Atefeh Sabouri; Amin Abedi
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Drought is one of the most important limiting factors for economic produce crops especially rice in the world. In order to identify related markers to yield and agronomic traits under drought stress condition, 40 recombinant inbred lines F9 (RILs) derived from IR28 and Shah-Pasand varieties evaluated ...
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Drought is one of the most important limiting factors for economic produce crops especially rice in the world. In order to identify related markers to yield and agronomic traits under drought stress condition, 40 recombinant inbred lines F9 (RILs) derived from IR28 and Shah-Pasand varieties evaluated at Rice Research Institute of Iran (Rasht) in the spring and summer 2018, as randomized block design with three replications. In this regard, 110 SSR and EST-SSR markers were assessed on parents of population and identified 41 markers had proper polymorphism between two parents. According to the regression analysis results, 24 and 22 significant markers identified under normal and drought stress conditions respectively. The maximum adjusted (R2) under normal and drought stress conditions were assigned to RM3496 linked to days to flowering (24.8%) and RMES6-1 linked to panicle exsertion (28.1%), respectively. Two markers RM211 and RM6697 had the most number of significant relationship with different traits including panicle length, flag leaf length, number of filled grains per panicle, the total number of grain per panicle, and weight of filled grain per panicle under non-stress and drought stress conditions respectively. According to the bioinformatics searches, the maximum gene expression pattern under drought stress condition was related to gene with accession code LOC_Os01g43370. The identified informative markers and the detected genes by bioinformatics approaches after validation can be utilized in marker assisted-selection (MAS) or gene transfer approaches for improving rice yield and tolerance to drought stress.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Narjes Fatahi; Hamid Sobhanian; Khadijeh Razavi; Tahmineh Lohrasebi; Gholamreza BakhshiKhaniki
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Environmental stresses have an irreversible effect on the production of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), one of the most important crop plants. On the other hand, AP2/ERF members are the most important transcriptional regulators that influence plant growth and response to biotic and abiotic stresses. ...
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Environmental stresses have an irreversible effect on the production of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), one of the most important crop plants. On the other hand, AP2/ERF members are the most important transcriptional regulators that influence plant growth and response to biotic and abiotic stresses. To evaluate the mechanism of salt stress tolerance in wheat the activities of superoxide dismutase, ascorbate peroxidase and catalase in two tolerant wheat landraces (3623 and 3625) under salinity were investigated by completely randomized factorial experiment at control and 250 mM salinity in three replications. Seedlings were sampled at 0, 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 h and 10 days after stress. The activity of enzymes was measured in the root and shoot of plants. The AP2-21 nucleotide sequence was extracted from the NCBI database and primers were designed and the gene fragment was isolated from wheat and then cloned and sequenced and confirmed by the presence of AP2 conserved domain. TaAP2-21 expression was evaluated by qPCR using specific primers and β-actin housekeeping genes. The results showed a significant difference in enzyme activity at different times compared to control in both tissues of both landraces and the highest was observed in short and medium-term stresses, however, apparently in long term stress the antioxidant mechanism of the enzymes is more active in 3623 than in 3625. Gene expression decreased significantly under salinity in both tissues. The TaAP2-21 gene is probably one of the inhibitors of the transcription of saline responsive genes and causes salt sensitivity in wheat.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Rasool Vahedi; Mohammad Mohsenzadeh Golfazani; Maryam Pasandideh Arjmand; Habibollah Samizadeh Lahiji
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Iron toxicity lead to increasing of free oxygen radicals, oxidative stresses and sever yield reduction of Rice. One of the plant responses for physiochemical and biochemical regulation to stresses is change of antioxidant enzyme contents. In this study the effect of five treatments of iron (Fe-EDTA) ...
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Iron toxicity lead to increasing of free oxygen radicals, oxidative stresses and sever yield reduction of Rice. One of the plant responses for physiochemical and biochemical regulation to stresses is change of antioxidant enzyme contents. In this study the effect of five treatments of iron (Fe-EDTA) (0, 100, 250, 400 and 500 mg/li-1) on relative expression of glutaredoxin (GRX), thioredoxin (TRX), peroxiredoxin (PRX) and catalase (CAT) genes of IR64 (susceptible) and Pokkali (tolerant) genotypes of Rice in Yoshida hydroponic media by Real time-PCR technique investigated. The results showed that the relative expression level of CAT gene in different levels of iron in Pokkali genotype was higher than IR64 genotype. The relative expression level of PRX in IR64 genotype in all of the levels was similar. The relative expression level of TRX in Pokkali genotype was not significant. The relative expression level of GRX in the most of stress levels in Pokkali genotype was higher than IR64 genotype. Low level iron result in increasing of relative expression level of CAT, GRX and TRX in IR64 genotype. But with increasing level of iron was not significant change in expression of genes. Also in the most of the iron level relative expression of genes in Pokkali was higher than IR64. Probably lose of change in gene expression levels in high level iron and low gene expression in IR64 is one of the reasons of its susceptibility to iron stress.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Seyyed Hamidreza Hashemi-petroudi; Ghorbanali Nematzadeh; Markus Kuhlmann
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Genome-wide identification of orthologs and paralogs gene clusters across different species is considered as a common strategy for predicting gene function. Regarding to importance role of species-specific paralog genes in adaptation to specific environmental stresses, identification of paralog genes ...
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Genome-wide identification of orthologs and paralogs gene clusters across different species is considered as a common strategy for predicting gene function. Regarding to importance role of species-specific paralog genes in adaptation to specific environmental stresses, identification of paralog genes in the Aeluropus littoralis, halophyte plant, was considered in this study. For this purpose, the proteome data of four species including A. littoralis, Oryza sativa, Brachypodium distachyon and Sorghum bicolor was compared genome-widely. Based on OrthoMCL analysis, by comparing of 15916 protein sequences of A. littoralis to proteome of other species, 10312 orthologs gene cluster were identified that shared in all given species while 70 unique paralog gene clusters were devoted to A. littoralis. Gene ontology annotation of these paralog clusters showed that they are involved in key biological processes such as cellular processes, metabolic DNA processes, chromatin organization, response to environmental stimuli and cell growth and cycle. The study of the largest cluster of this set led to the identification of a family of small polypeptides (72-39 aa) that is called DEVIL (DVL). Analysis of A. littoralis transcriptome data in a Heatmap display a divergence in gene expression patterns of DVL gene family that could be an evident for their sub‐functionalization in biological processes and molecular functions of the cell. Functional analysis of AlDVL peptide hormones (phytohormones) could be useful for identifying their potential role in the mechanisms involved in drought and salinity tolerance.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Mohammad Mohsenzadeh Golfazani; Maryam Pasandideh arjmand; Mojtaba Kordrostami; Habibollah Samizadeh Lahiji; Hassan Hassani kumleh; Mohammad Hossein Rezadoost
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Increasing of reactive oxygen species (ROS) under iron toxicity is considered as one of the major constraints to rice production. In this study the alterations of SOD, GPX1 and MDHR expression level in two genotypes of rice, Pokkali (as tolerant) and IR64 (as sensitive) were monitored under different ...
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Increasing of reactive oxygen species (ROS) under iron toxicity is considered as one of the major constraints to rice production. In this study the alterations of SOD, GPX1 and MDHR expression level in two genotypes of rice, Pokkali (as tolerant) and IR64 (as sensitive) were monitored under different concentrations of iron levels [(0) (nonstress)], 100, 250, 400 and 500 mg/lit-1Fe-EDTA). The treatments were done when the plants were at 4-leaf stage and lasted for two weeks. Results showed that the expression levels of genes in Pokkali were higher than IR64. The expression level of SOD in IR64, increased at iron concentration increased, while it decreased at higher Fe-level. The expression level of GPX1 was increased in IR64, but decreased in Pokkali. The expression level of MDHR in IR64 was decreased at early stage of Fe-treatment, but then increased. Inversely, in Pokkali MDHR expression reduced constantly under Fe stress. Overall, the relative over expression of genes in Pokkali and presence of different expression levels of them between different concentrations of Fe in tolerant and sensitive genotypes indicate that the gene could remarkably effect on the tolerant level of pokkali by reducing ROS production under Fe-toxicity.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Ahmad Ali Shoushi Dezfuli1 Shoushi Dezfuli; Ahmad Kalantar ahmadi
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Salinity is one the major problems for production and increasing the area under cultivation around the world and Iran. Understanding of defense mechanisms and genes involved could improve tolerance to different stresses in crops by using some methods such as genetic manipulation. Regulation in the gene ...
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Salinity is one the major problems for production and increasing the area under cultivation around the world and Iran. Understanding of defense mechanisms and genes involved could improve tolerance to different stresses in crops by using some methods such as genetic manipulation. Regulation in the gene transcription phase is one the most methods to control stress in plants. Transcription factors thought binding with transcription elements in DNA promoters regulate genes expression which plays a key role in tolerance to salinity stress in plants. An experiment was conducted to evaluate four genes expression of transcription factors of MYB (MYB14 and MYB112) and WRKY (WRKY53 and WRKY70) in leaf and root tissue of Yazdi genotype (tolerant genotype to salinity) and Diabloverde (sensitive genotype to salinity) under salinity stress. The selection of these genes was based on the statistical analysis of the microarray data that was related to a study on the effect of salinity stress on Medicago truncatula. Short-term salinity stress caused a significant variation in the expression of these genes in leaf and root tissues of Yazdi and Diabloverde genotypes. Real-Time PCR analysis revealed that higher expression of transcription factors (MYB112 and MYB14) associated with more tolerance to salinity stress. This finding could be assisted plant breeders to apply these transcriptional factors to choose tolerant genotypes to salinity in alfalfa.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Seyedeh Zahra Hosseini; Ahmad Ismaili; Farhad Nazarian Firouzabadi; Hossein Fallahi; Abdolhossein Rezaeinejad
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Lentil (Lens culinaris) is one of the important grain legumes in feeding (as protein-reach food) and industry (such as biopolymer industry) and the problem of lower yield of this plant in Iran rather than average global yield is affected by exposure of plant to environmental stresses especially drought. ...
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Lentil (Lens culinaris) is one of the important grain legumes in feeding (as protein-reach food) and industry (such as biopolymer industry) and the problem of lower yield of this plant in Iran rather than average global yield is affected by exposure of plant to environmental stresses especially drought. Identification of molecular markers that closely linked to drought resistant genes help to implementation of breeding programs aimed at the production of drought tolerant plants. The gol of this study was identification of EST-SSR markers which closely linked to the genes involved in drought resistance and use of these information in identification of drought resistant genotypes in breeding programs. PEG was used for stress treatment, and after conduction of treatments, leaf samples were collected. Total RNA was extracted and cDNA libraries were sequenced. Results showed that 10546 (16%) of uni-genes contained at least one EST-SSR and about 27.5% of these sequences were annotated. Among different SSR motif-classes, tri-nucleotide repeats (46.03%) were the most abundant followed by mono-nucleotide repeats (37.25%) and di-nucleotide repeats (15.18%). The results of the functional annotation of these sequences, showed that the highest number of EST-SSRs were belonged to subgroups of binding (872), catalytic activity (806), metabolic processes (755), and cell components (651), respectively.The results showed that genes associated with these markers, involved in important biological functions and are an appropriate tool for study the genes involved in tolerance to stresses including drought stress.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Seyyed Hamidreza Hashemi-Petroudi; Hamidreza Ghorbani; Markus Kuhlmann
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Bioinformatic analysis plays an important role in the study of genes and the prediction of their function in response to stresses. Halophyte Aeluropus littoralis, a valuable genetic resource for identifying genes involved in plant tolerance to abiotic stresses. In this study, Phosphoglycerate Dehydrogenase ...
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Bioinformatic analysis plays an important role in the study of genes and the prediction of their function in response to stresses. Halophyte Aeluropus littoralis, a valuable genetic resource for identifying genes involved in plant tolerance to abiotic stresses. In this study, Phosphoglycerate Dehydrogenase (PGDH) gene as the first important enzyme in the synthesis of serine, was Isolated based on EST sequence from plant Aeluropus littoralis in salinity using by the RLM-RACE method. By overlapping the 3’ and EST sequences, a 1506 bp fragment including the ORF region (1268 nucleotides) and 3’UTR region (238 nucleotides) were obtained. The phylogenetic analysis of AlPGDH was done with other ortholog genes in different plants and its homologs were identified. Based on phylogram, the high degree of homology was observed between AlPGDH gene and other homologous genes from monocot cereals such as sorghum, foxtail millet and rice. The AtPGDH co-expression network analysis showed the important role of the PGDH gene in biosynthetic pathways, including amino acid synthesis, secondary metabolites synthesis and the pathway of glycine, serine and threonine metabolism, and its expression analysis indicated that the expression was increased in different stresses. The Phenotyping of the Arabidopsis knockout mutants for PGDH gene in NaCl and PEG stress condition indicated that the growth characteristics were significantly reduced in compared to the control plant, which could be confirmed the role of this gene in the response to salt and drought stress. The findings of this study reveal the functional characteristics of AlPGDH gene, phenotypic changes in AtPGDH mutant plants in exposure to salt and drought stress, and its possible role in increasing plant tolerance to stress.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Nooshin Ashoori; Reza Fotovat; Maryam Mortezaee; Nastaran Mehri
Volume 8, Issue 22 , September 2018, , Pages 41-50
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Many plants adapted to cold climates flower only after an extended period of cold, namely vernalization. In the lifetime of a winter cereals, flowering due to vernalization is not only an essential part of the reproductive process but also a critical developmental stage that can be protect the plant ...
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Many plants adapted to cold climates flower only after an extended period of cold, namely vernalization. In the lifetime of a winter cereals, flowering due to vernalization is not only an essential part of the reproductive process but also a critical developmental stage that can be protect the plant against environmental stresses. This process in cereals such as winter wheat is mainly regulated by the VERNALIZATION genes, VRN1 and VRN2. Although many studies on vernalization in wheat have been reported, the molecular mechanism of vernalization is still largely unknown. Recent studies were shown that a class of small non-coding RNAs, microRNAs (miRNAs), plays a key role in flowering by integrating into the known flowering pathways. In the present study, we investigated the expression of miR319 and its target gene (MYB transcription factor) under the vernalization treatments in spring and winter wheat cultivars. Our results demonstrate that cold treatment induced the miR319 expression in both cultivars, but miR319 level is down-regulated in Norstar and up-regulated in the spring wheat cultivar Baz. Likewise, the expression levels of MYB3 gene was decreased in both cultivars exposed to vernalization. There was reverse relationship between expression of miR319 and its target gene MYB3. These results highlight the complex interactions between genotypes, miRNA and expression of target gene under different vernalization treatment.
Biotic and Abiotic stress
Nazanin Amirbakhtiar; Zahra-Sadat Shobbar; Ahmad Ismaili; Farhad Nazarian Firouzabadi; Mohammad reza Ghaffari
Volume 8, Issue 21 , June 2018, , Pages 81-94
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Salt stress is considered as one of the most important constraints in wheat production worldwide, thus for, research toward development of tolerant varieties is of great importance. Discovering genes and molecular mechanisms involved in salt tolerance are the primary steps in molecular breeding for salinity. ...
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Salt stress is considered as one of the most important constraints in wheat production worldwide, thus for, research toward development of tolerant varieties is of great importance. Discovering genes and molecular mechanisms involved in salt tolerance are the primary steps in molecular breeding for salinity. In this study, taking advantage of the data deposited in NCBI Gene Bank, two salinity-related microarray data sets of bread wheat were analyzed to identify salt responsive genes. Bioinformatics’ analyses indicated that 3096 and 2060 genes were salt responsive genes in root and shoot, respectively. Gene ontology analysis of salt responsive genes showed that these genes were enriched for response to chemical stimulus, response to oxidative stress, transport, regulation of transcription and carbohydrate metabolic process in biological process category in both tissues. Furthermore, the differentially expressed genes in metabolic process category were enriched for catalytic activity, binding and oxidoreductase activity in both tissues. In order to determine the key genes involved in salt tolerance, hub analysis was performed on the salt responsive genes identified in the root. Based on the achieved results, the role of regulatory genes including protein kinases, protein phosphatases and transcription factors such as MYB and WRKY, was highlighted in inducing salt tolerance.
