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The gene expression of Tamarix androssowii under NaHCO3 stresses is studied by using SSH technique, in which the cDNA from the materials treated with NaHCO3 solution is as tester and the cDNA from the materials in normal growth is as driver. Total 36 genes related to NaHCO3 stress were obtained through Northern hybridization. Blastx analysis showed that the proteins encoded by these genes were homologous to the following proteins: the antioxidant enzymes catalase and peroxiredoxin; trehalose phosphatase, which was related to trehalose synthesis; a few regulation proteins such as bZIP transcription factor, MADS-box protein, glycine-rich RNA-binding proteins, CCCH-type zinc finger protein and F-box protein etc; early light-induced protein, which could protect and/or repair the photosynthetic apparatus damage induced by stress; cysteine proteinase and vacuolar processing enzyme that can make function in plant cell death, and lipid transfer protein precursor, polyubiquitin, chalcone synthase, NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase, salt-induced S12 protein, and oxygen-evolving enhancer protein 1 etc. Among 36 genes obtained, the proteins encoded three genes were homologous to 3 putative proteins: HAK2, calcium-binding protein and RNA-binding protein, respectively. In addition, 6 new salt stress response squences were found. The result indicated that the salt-tolerant mechanism of Tamarix androssowii may be a complicated, interactive system involving multiple approaches and multiple genes, but not only a single salt gland-depended approach.
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PMID:[Study on gene expression of Tamarix under NaHCO3 stress using SSH technology]. 1549 42

The oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis, is a pest of fruit in the Asia-Pacific region and also, due to quarantine restrictions, a threat to California fruit production. Area-wide suppression of B. dorsalis integrated several approaches including the sterile insect technique (SIT). SIT involves exposing juveniles to gamma radiation and releasing sterile males in substantial numbers, where they successfully compete for wild females. The resulting infertile eggs lead to reduction of the pest populations. Although these protocols are well documented, arising issues about the international transport and distribution of radioactive products is creating difficulties in use of radioactive sources for sterilizing radiation. This led to a shift toward use of X-ray irradiation, which also sterilizes male and female insects. However, use of X-ray technologies is in its infancy and there is virtually no information on the effects of irradiation, other than sterilization, at the physiological and molecular levels of fruit fly biology. We posed the hypothesis that sterilizing male oriental fruit flies via radiation treatment also influences protein expression in the flies. We found that exposing pupae to X-ray irradiation impacted expression of 26 proteins in adult females and 31 proteins in adult males. Seven proteins (glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, fructose-bisphosphate aldolase, larval cuticle protein 2, sarcoplasmic calcium-binding protein alpha-B and A chains, general odorant-binding protein 99b, polyubiquitin, and protein disulfide-isomerase) were impacted in both sexes. Some of the proteins act in central energy-generating and in pheromone-signal processing pathways; we infer that males sterilized by X-ray irradiation may be enfeebled in their ability to compete with wild males for females in nature.
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PMID:Pupal X-ray irradiation influences protein expression in adults of the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis. 2577 96