Starch Content and Cassava Mosaic Disease Genetic Diversity with Relation to Yield in South Indian Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Germplasm

Raghu Duraisamy,Senthil Natesan,Sakthi Ambothi Rathinasamy,Raveendran Muthurajan,Jana Jeevan Ramineni,Nageswari Karuppusamy,Pugalenthi Lakshmanan,Mohan Chokkappan,Karthikeyan Gandhi 한국작물학회 2011 Journal of crop science and biotechnology Vol.14 No.3

Cassava, family Euphorbiaceae, is the fifth most important staple food crop. The study of variability and diversity present in diverse cassava accessions maintained at the field genebank of TCRS, TNAU is essential to design the breeding program of cassava in TNAU. Hence, a study was carried out to assess the genetic diversity based on morphological traits and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers, identifying the SSR markers linked to a cassava mosaic disease-resistant QTL region. Genetic diversity among cassava germplasm accessions was estimated using 28 morphological traits and three SSR markers. The polymorphic information content (PIC) result gives high information for all the SSR markers. Morphological traits revealed 10 clusters and the SSR markers revealed 13 clusters at a similarity coefficient of 2.514 and 0.75, respectively. The SSR marker diversity revealed that the most promising clusters (II and XII) possessing accessions with yield attributing traits and cluster IX were grouped together due to low yield and CMD susceptibility. Morphological descriptors revealed variance for yield contributing traits. The first three principle components accounted for 10.8, 9.1, and 8.4%, respectively. Correlation studies showed significant correlation among yield and yield-attributing traits, which in turn influences yield. The morphological traits diversity reveals that cluster VI was the most promising cluster in which genotypes ME209 and ME460 possess higher yield and starch content with cassava mosaic disease (CMD) resistance. Most of the accessions grouped under cluster X belong to selection from International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) collections and the cultivars under clusters I and II were true cassava seed (TCS) selections of India. The CMD-linked SSR marker which is reported in the previous studies have generated eight alleles and each were regressed with CMD resistance and resulted in non-significant linkage to CMD resistance.

Starch Content and Cassava Mosaic Disease Genetic Diversity with Relation to Yield in South Indian Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Germplasm

Duraisamy, Raghu,Rathinasamy, Sakthi Ambothi,Natesan, Senthil,Muthurajan, Raveendran,Ramineni, Jana Jeevan,Karuppusamy, Nageswari,Lakshmanan, Pugalenthi,Chokkappan, Mohan,Gandhi, Karthikeyan 한국작물학회 2011 Journal of crop science and biotechnology Vol.14 No.3

Cassava, family Euphorbiaceae, is the fifth most important staple food crop. The study of variability and diversity present in diverse cassava accessions maintained at the field genebank of TCRS, TNAU is essential to design the breeding program of cassava in TNAU. Hence, a study was carried out to assess the genetic diversity based on morphological traits and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers, identifying the SSR markers linked to a cassava mosaic disease-resistant QTL region. Genetic diversity among cassava germplasm accessions was estimated using 28 morphological traits and three SSR markers. The polymorphic information content (PIC) result gives high information for all the SSR markers. Morphological traits revealed 10 clusters and the SSR markers revealed 13 clusters at a similarity coefficient of 2.514 and 0.75, respectively. The SSR marker diversity revealed that the most promising clusters (II and XII) possessing accessions with yield attributing traits and cluster IX were grouped together due to low yield and CMD susceptibility. Morphological descriptors revealed variance for yield contributing traits. The first three principle components accounted for 10.8, 9.1, and 8.4%, respectively. Correlation studies showed significant correlation among yield and yield-attributing traits, which in turn influences yield. The morphological traits diversity reveals that cluster VI was the most promising cluster in which genotypes ME209 and ME460 possess higher yield and starch content with cassava mosaic disease (CMD) resistance. Most of the accessions grouped under cluster X belong to selection from International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) collections and the cultivars under clusters I and II were true cassava seed (TCS) selections of India. The CMD-linked SSR marker which is reported in the previous studies have generated eight alleles and each were regressed with CMD resistance and resulted in non-significant linkage to CMD resistance

Haploid embryogenesis and molecular detection of somatic embryogenesis receptor-like kinase (TcSERK) genes in sliced ovary cultures of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.)

Ramasamy Gnanam,Ramasamy Sivachandran,Ravi Nagganatha Suganthan,Krishnan Rajalakshmi,Subramanian Rajesh,Raman Renuka,Duraialaguraja Sudhakar,Muthurajan Raveendran,Vellaichamy Jegadeeswari 한국식물생명공학회 2022 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.16 No.3

Somatic embryos were induced from sliced unpollinated ovaries of cocoa. The influence of genotypes and cold pre-treatment were studied on the induction of callus and haploid embryogenesis. Among the five cocoa genotypes studied, CCRP 5 and CCRP 1 had recorded a maximum callus induction frequency of 66.00% and 62.00%, respectively, from sliced ovaries on WPM medium supplemented with 2-iP (1.0 mg L−1), Zeatin (1.0 mg L−1), and AgNO3 (5.0 mg L−1). Sliced ovaries isolated from cold pre-treated (4 °C for 1 day), 4–6 mm long (containing mature ovule) flower buds recorded the maximum callus induction frequency (67%). The highest percentage of embryogenic calli was noticed from ovaries of pre-treated (4 °C for 1 day) flower buds of CCRP 5 (31.00%). During proliferation and sub-culturing, callus morphogenesis such as white com- pact, light creamy nodular, proliferative beige shaded embryogenic, and light brown watery spongy non-proliferative calli were observed. Induction of globular and heart stage somatic embryos was noticed in WPM medium supplemented with ascorbic acid (35.2 mg L−1), Zeatin (1.0 mg L−1), Kinetin (3.0 mg L−1), and sucrose (30.0 g L−1). Further, the cotyledon- ary stage embryos and shoot conversion were observed in WPM medium supplemented with MgSO4 (4.0 g L−1), K2SO4 (12.0 g L−1), glucose (1.0 g L−1), and sucrose (30.0 g L−1). Histological and scanning electron microscopic studies revealed an asynchronous pattern of somatic embryos development (globular, heart, and torpedo stage) from embryogenic calli. The molecular confirmation of embryogenic competence with different types of ovary callus at different stages was confirmed with the detection of the TcSERK gene through semi-quantitative RT-PCR. The TcSERK gene expression was higher in embryogenic friable calli and lower in callus with early embryo induction. Flow cytometry analysis revealed that cells from ovary calli were haploids (1n = 10). This study would be a starting step for the induction of haploid embryogenesis from sliced ovaries of the well-adapted regional genotypes of cocoa, for obtaining rapid homozygosity; as induction of haploids through androgenesis in an earlier study could not yield fruitful results.

Proteomic Signature of Nucleus Pulposus in Fetal Intervertebral Disc

Rajasekaran Shanmuganathan,Soundararajan Dilip Chand Raja,Tangavel Chitraa,K.S. Sri Vijay Anand,Nayagam Sharon Miracle,Matchado Monica Steffi,Muthurajan Raveendran,Shetty Ajoy Prasad,Kanna Rishi Muges 대한척추외과학회 2020 Asian Spine Journal Vol.14 No.4

Study Design: Profiling proteins expressed in the nucleus pulposus of fetal intervertebral disc (IVD).Purpose: To evaluate the molecular complexity of fetal IVDs not exposed to mechanical, traumatic, inflammatory, or infective insults to generate improved knowledge on disc homeostasis.Overview of Literature: Low back pain is the most common musculoskeletal disorder, causing a significant reduction in the quality of life, and degenerative disc disorders mainly contribute to the increasing socioeconomic burden. Despite extensive research, the causative pathomechanisms behind degenerative disc disorders are poorly understood. Precise molecular studies on the intricate biological processes involved in maintaining normal disc homeostasis are needed.Methods: IVDs of nine fetal specimens obtained from medical abortions were used to dissect out the annulus fibrosus and nucleus pulposus under sterile operating conditions. Dissected tissues were transferred to sterile Cryovials and snap frozen in liquid nitrogen before transporting to the research laboratory for protein extraction and further liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/ MS) analysis. Collected data were further analyzed using Gene Functional Classification Tool in DAVID and STRING databases.Results: A total of 1,316 proteins were identified through LC-MS/MS analysis of nine fetal IVD tissues. Approximately 247 proteins present in at least four fetal discs were subjected to further bioinformatic analysis. The following 10 clusters of proteins were identified: collagens, ribosomal proteins, small leucine-rich proteins, matrilin and thrombospondin, annexins, protein disulfide isomerase family proteins and peroxiredoxins, tubulins, histones, hemoglobin, and prolyl 4-hydroxylase family proteins.Conclusions: This study provides fundamental information on the proteome networks involved in the growth and development of healthy fetal discs in humans. Systematic cataloging of proteins involved in various structural and regulatory processes has been performed. Proteins expressed most abundantly (collagen type XIV alpha 1 chain, biglycan, matrilin 1, and thrombospondin 1) in their respective clusters also elucidate the possibility of utilizing these proteins for potential regenerative therapies.

Proteomic Signatures of Healthy Intervertebral Discs From Organ Donors: A Comparison With Previous Studies on Discs From Scoliosis, Animals, and Trauma

Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran,Chitraa Tangavel,Dilip Chand Raja Soundararajan,Sharon Miracle Nayagam,Monica Steffi Matchado,Raveendran Muthurajan,K.S. Sri Vijay Anand,Sunmathi Rajendran,Ajoy Prasad Shett 대한척추신경외과학회 2020 Neurospine Vol.17 No.2

Objective: To catalog and characterize the proteome of normal human intervertebral disc (IVD). Methods: Nine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) normal IVDs were harvested from 9 different brain dead yet alive voluntary organ donors and were subjected to electrospray ionization-liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-LC-MS/MS) acquisition. Results: A total of 1,116 proteins were identified. Functional enrichment analysis tool DAVID ver. 6.8 categorized: extracellular proteins (38%), intracellular (31%), protein-containing complex (13%), organelle (9%), membrane proteins (6%), supramolecular complex (2%), and 1% in the cell junction. Molecular function revealed: binding activity (42%), catalytic activity (31%), regulatory activity (14%), and structural activity (7%). Molecular transducer, transporter, and transcription regulator activity together contributed to 6%. A comparison of the proteins obtained from this study to others in the literature showed a wide variation in content with only 3% of bovine, 5% of murine, 54% of human scoliotic discs, and 10.2% of discs adjacent to lumbar burst fractures common to our study of organ donors. Between proteins reported in scoliosis and lumbar fracture patients, only 13.51% were common, further signifying the contrast amongst the various MRI normal IVD samples. Conclusion: The proteome of “healthy” human IVDs has been defined, and our results show that proteomic data on IVDs obtained from scoliosis, fracture patients, and cadavers lack normal physiological conditions and should not be used as biological controls despite normal MRI findings. This questions the validity of previous studies that have used such discs as controls for analyzing the pathomechanisms of disc degeneration.

Comparative root protein profiles of Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng) and Indian ginseng (Withania somnifera).

Nagappan, Arulkumar,Karunanithi, Nithya,Sentrayaperumal, Sundareswaran,Park, Kwang-Ii,Park, Hyeon-Soo,Lee, Do Hoon,Kang, Sang-Rim,Kim, Jin-A,Senthil, Kalaiselvi,Natesan, Senthil,Muthurajan, Raveendran Institute for Advanced Research in Asian Science a 2012 The American journal of Chinese medicine Vol.40 No.1

<P>Ginsenosides and withanolides are the secondary metabolites from Panax ginseng and Withania somnifera, respectively. These compounds have similar biological properties. Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) analysis was utilized to reveal the protein profile in the roots of both plants, with the aim of clarifying similarly- and differentially-expressed proteins. Total proteins of Korea ginseng (P. ginseng) and Indian ginseng (W. somnifera) roots were separated by 2-DE using a pH 4-7 immobilized pH gradient strip in the first dimension and 12% sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the second dimension. The protein spots were visualized by silver staining. Twenty-one P. ginseng proteins and 35 W. somnifera proteins were chosen for identification by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry; of these, functions were ascribed to 14 and 22 of the P. ginseng and W. somnifera proteins, respectively. Functions mainly included general cell metabolism, defense and secondary metabolism. ATPase and alcohol dehydrogenase proteins were expressed in both plants. The results of this study, to our knowledge, are the first to provide a reference 2-DE map for the W. somnifera root proteome, and will aid in the understanding of the expression and functions of proteins in the roots of Korean ginseng and Indian ginseng.</P>