title: Soybean Roots Grown under Heat Stress Show Global Changes in Their Transcriptional and Proteomic Profiles.
abstract: Heat stress is likely to be a key factor in the negative impact of climate change on crop production. Heat stress significantly influences the functions of roots, which provide support, water, and nutrients to other plant organs. Likewise, roots play an important role in the establishment of symbiotic associations with different microorganisms. Despite the physiological relevance of roots, few studies have examined their response to heat stress. In this study, we performed genome-wide transcriptomic and proteomic analyses on isolated root hairs, which are a single, epidermal cell type, and compared their response to stripped roots. On average, we identified 1849 and 3091 genes differentially regulated in root hairs and stripped roots, respectively, in response to heat stress. Our gene regulatory module analysis identified 10 key modules that might control the majority of the transcriptional response to heat stress. We also conducted proteomic analysis on membrane fractions isolated from root hairs and compared these responses to stripped roots. These experiments identified a variety of proteins whose expression changed within 3 h of application of heat stress. Most of these proteins were predicted to play a significant role in thermo-tolerance, as well as in chromatin remodeling and post-transcriptional regulation. The data presented represent an in-depth analysis of the heat stress response of a single cell type in soybean.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of MissouriColumbia, MO, USA; Laboratorio de Genómica Funcional de Leguminosas, FES Iztacala Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMéxico, Mexico.
authors.forename: Oswaldo
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Valdés-López
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Batek
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gomez-Hernandez
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Cuong T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Genómica Funcional de Leguminosas, FES Iztacala Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México México, Mexico.
authors.forename: Mariel C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Isidra-Arellano
authors.affiliation: C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Informatics Institute, University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Informatics Institute, University of MissouriColumbia, MO, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of MissouriColumbia, MO, USA; Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Office of Research, School of Medicine, University of MissouriColumbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Trupti
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.affiliation: C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Informatics Institute, University of MissouriColumbia, MO, USA; Department of Computer Science, University of MissouriColumbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Kim K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Hixson
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Karl K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Weitz
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Joshua T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Aldrich
authors.affiliation: Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland, WA, USA.
authors.forename: Ljiljana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Paša-Tolić
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, C.S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stacey
keywords: gene module; heat stress; proteomics; root hairs; soybean; transcriptomics