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    Transcriptome-wide identification and expression analysis of expansin genes in big and small leaf-morphotypes of Adhatoda vasica
    (Springer Nature Publishing AG, 2025) Soundararajan, Prabhakaran; Singh, Pooja; Letro, Awele; Singh, Gourav; Manivannan, Abinaya
    In the present study the expansin genes were identified from Adhatoda vasica, a potential medicinal plant. It consists of two morphotypes S (small leaf bearing plants with low alkaloid content) and B (large leaf bearing plants with high alkaloid content). The difference in the leaf size influence the alkaloid content and it act as the economically important trait for this medicinal plant. Therefore, exploring the expression of expansins will facilitate the molecular regulation of leaf expansion in A. vasica. For the identification of expansins, Hidden Markov model (HMM) profiles of double-psi beta-barrel (DPBB) and pollen allergen domains were utilized and searched against the genomes of Arabidopsis thaliana, Catharanthus roseus and Camellia sinensis and confirmed with BLAST search against published expansins of A. thaliana. The resulted expansins were used for homology-based identification of expansin transcripts in A. vasica transcriptome assembly. A total of 22 expansin transcripts were identified in A. vasica leaf transcriptome. The phylogenetic tree illustrated that the expansins were clustered into four subfamily EXPA, EXPB, EXPLA, and EXPLB. Interactome analysis revealed that the expansins interacted with genes involved in cell wall modification. In addition, leaf transcriptome analysis of S and B morphotypes revealed that majority of the expansins were upregulated in B morphotype than S morphotype. Further, qPCR analysis of selected expansin genes from transcriptome were validated in the young and mature leaf tissues of both morphotypes. Overall, the outcomes of the present study will facilitate the understanding the expansins based molecular regulation of leaf size in A. vasica which will aid in the higher production of pharmaceutically important alkaloids.
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    Comparative proteomics of dehydration response in the rice nucleus: new insights into the molecular basis of genotype-specific adaptation
    (John Wiley & Sons, 2013) Jaiswal, Dinesh Kumar; Ray, Doel; Choudhary, Mani Kant; Subba, Pratigya; Kumar, Amit; Verma, Jitendra; Kumar, Rajiv; Datta, Asis; Chakraborty, Subhra; Chakraborty, Niranjan
    Dehydration is the most crucial environmental factor that considerably reduces the crop harvest index, and thus has become a concern for global agriculture. To better understand the role of nuclear proteins in water-deficit condition, a nuclear proteome was developed from a dehydration-sensitive rice cultivar IR-64 followed by its comparison with that of a dehydration-tolerant c.v. Rasi. The 2DE protein profiling of c.v. IR-64 coupled with MS/MS analysis led to the identification of 93 dehydration-responsive proteins (DRPs). Among those identified proteins, 78 were predicted to be destined to the nucleus, accounting for more than 80% of the dataset. While the detected number of protein spots in c.v. IR-64 was higher when compared with that of Rasi, the number of DRPs was found to be less. Fifty-seven percent of the DRPs were found to be common to both sensitive and tolerant cultivars, indicating significant differences between the two nuclear proteomes. Further, we constructed a functional association network of the DRPs of c.v. IR-64, which suggests that a significant number of the proteins are capable of interacting with each other. The combination of nuclear proteome and interactome analyses would elucidate stress-responsive signaling and the molecular basis of dehydration tolerance in plants.