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Project description:Purpose: Microarray technologies provide a unique opportunity to deeply investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in plant-pathogen interaction. Botrytis cinerea, is the agent of grapevine grey mould, but in yet uncharacterized environmental conditions, a latent infection can occur determining favourable metabolic and physico-chemical berry modifications which possibly contribute to the typical aromas of “passito” wines (“noble rot”). The present project aims at the identification of the grapevine responses to B. cinerea during fungal colonization in the latent form, in comparison with control berries. Methods: A total of 150 untreated berries were sampled as time 0 of the experiment. Moreover, 300 healthy berries have been artificially inoculated one by one with B. cinerea by injecting conidia under berry skin, in controlled conditions, reproducing an early stage (T1) and a late stage (T2) of noble rot pourri plein. Control samples (300 berries) have been inoculated with water and sampled at the same time of infected berries. The microarray experiments on T0 and healthy or infected samples in biological triplicate resulted in 15 samples to be analyzed (Agilent-048771 4x44K Grape all custom microarray chip; Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA). Conclusions: This work identified important molecular mechanisms involved in Botrytis cinerea colonization of grapevine berries during the noble rot infection.
2019-07-26 | GSE116740 | GEO
Project description:Purpose: High throughput sequencing technologies provide a unique opportunity to deeply investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in plant-pathogen interaction. Botrytis cinerea, is the agent of grapevine grey mould, but in yet uncharacterized environmental conditions, a latent infection can occur determining favourable metabolic and physico-chemical berry modifications which possibly contribute to the typical aromas of “passito” wines (“noble rot”). The present project aims at the identification of the genes deployed by B. cinerea during grape berries colonization in the latent form, in comparison with the saprophytic growth in vitro. Methods: A total of 300 healthy berries have been artificially inoculated one by one with B. cinerea by injecting conidia under berry skin, in controlled conditions, reproducing the pourri plein stage of noble rot. Control samples (300 berries) have been inoculated with water. The saprophytic growth was obtained in liquid nutrient medium in laboratory flasks, and the mycelium collected by filtration. The RNA-sequencing experiments on healthy or infected samples in biological triplicate resulted in 27 data sets to be analyzed (Illumina NextSeq500 paired-end sequencing; 533.779.730 total reads, 150 Gb of data). Conclusions: This work identified important molecular mechanisms involved in Botrytis cinerea colonization of grapevine berries during the noble rot infection.
2019-07-26 | GSE116274 | GEO
Project description:Whole-transcriptome analysis of grapevine-Botrytis cinerea interaction during latent infection of berries
| PRJNA480021 | ENA
Project description:Whole-transcriptome microarray analysis of grapevine-Botrytis cinerea interaction during latent infection of berries (“noble rot”)
| PRJNA480023 | ENA
Project description:Whole-transcriptome RNA-seq analysis of grapevine-Botrytis cinerea interaction during latent infection of berries (“noble rot”)
| PRJNA477951 | ENA
Project description:Vitis vinifera berries are sensitive towards infection by the necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea, leading to important economic losses worldwide. The combined analysis of the transcriptome and metabolome associated with fungal infection has not been performed previously in grapes or in another fleshy fruit. In an attempt to identify the molecular and metabolic mechanisms associated with the infection, peppercorn-sized fruits were infected in the field. Green and veraison berries were collected following infection for microarray analysis complemented with metabolic profiling of primary and other soluble metabolites and of volatile emissions. The results provided evidence of a reprogramming of carbohydrate and lipid metabolisms towards increased synthesis of secondary metabolites involved in plant defence, such as trans-resveratrol and gallic acid. This response was already activated in infected green berries with the putative involvement of jasmonic acid, ethylene, polyamines, and auxins, whereas salicylic acid did not seem to be involved. Genes encoding WRKY transcription factors, pathogenesis-related proteins, glutathione S-transferase, stilbene synthase, and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase were upregulated in infected berries. However, salicylic acid signalling was activated in healthy ripening berries along with the expression of proteins of the NBS-LRR superfamily and protein kinases, suggesting that the pathogen is able to shut down defences existing in healthy ripening berries. Furthermore, this study provided metabolic biomarkers of infection such as azelaic acid, a substance known to prime plant defence responses, arabitol, ribitol, 4-amino butanoic acid, 1-O-methyl- glucopyranoside, and several fatty acids that alone or in combination can be used to monitor Botrytis infection early in the vineyard.
| S-EPMC4669548 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Cucumber gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea is considered one of the most serious cucumber diseases. With the advent of Hi-seq technology, it is possible to study the plant-pathogen interaction at the transcriptome level. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of RNA-seq to identify cucumber and B. cinerea differentially expressed genes (DEGs) before and after the plant-pathogen interaction. In total, 248,908,688 raw reads were generated; after removing low-quality reads and those containing adapter and poly-N, 238,341,648 clean reads remained to map the reference genome. There were 3,512 cucumber DEGs and 1,735 B. cinerea DEGs. GO enrichment and KEGG enrichment analysis were performed on these DEGs to study the interaction between cucumber and B. cinerea. To verify the reliability and accuracy of our transcriptome data, 5 cucumber DEGs and 5 B. cinerea DEGs were chosen for RT-PCR verification. This is the first systematic transcriptome analysis of components related to the B. cinerea-cucumber interaction. Functional genes and putative pathways identified herein will increase our understanding of the mechanism of the pathogen-host interaction.
| S-EPMC4633151 | biostudies-literature
Project description:The natural or induced development of noble rot caused by the fungus Botrytis cinerea during the late stages of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) berry ripening is used in some traditional viticulture areas to produce high-quality wines such as Sauternes and Tokaji. In this research, we wanted to verify if by changing the environmental conditions during post-harvest withering we could induce the noble rot development on harvested berries in order to positively change the wine produced from withered Garganega berries. Therefore, we exposed the berries to postharvest withering under normal or artificially humid conditions, the latter to induce noble rot. The presence of noble rot symptoms was associated with the development of B. cinerea in the berries maintained under humid conditions. The composition of infected and non-infected berries was investigated by untargeted metabolomics using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. We also explored the effects of the two withering methods on the abundance of volatile organic compounds in wine by yeast-inoculated micro-fermentation followed by targeted gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. These experiments revealed significant metabolic differences between berries withered under normal and humid conditions, indicating that noble rot affects berry metabolism and composition. As well as well-known botrytization markers, we detected two novel lipids that have not been observed before in berries infected with noble rot. Unraveling the specific metabolic profile of berries infected with noble rot may help to determine the compounds responsible for the organoleptic quality traits of botrytized Garganega wines.
| S-EPMC5478704 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Noble rot is a latent infection of grape berries caused by the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea, which develops under specific climatic conditions. The infected berries undergo biochemical and metabolic changes, associated with a rapid withering, which altogether offer interesting organoleptic features to sweet white wines. In this paper, we provide RNAseq datasets (raw and normalized counts as well as differentially expressed genes lists) of the transcriptome profiles of both grapevine berries (Vitis vinifera cv. Garganega) and B. cinerea during the establishment of noble rot, artificially induced in controlled conditions. The sequencing data are available in the NCBI GEO database under accession number GSE116741. These data were exploited in a comprehensive meta-analysis of gene expression during noble rot infection, gray mold and post-harvest withering. This highlighted an important common transcriptional reprogramming in different botrytized grape berry varieties and led to the identification of key genes specifically modulated during noble rot infection, which are described in the article entitled "Specific molecular interactions between Vitis vinifera and Botrytis cinerea are required for noble rot development in grape berries" Lovato et al., 2019.
| S-EPMC6603817 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Among environmental factors, temperature is the one that poses serious threats to viticulture in the present and future scenarios of global climate change. In this work, we evaluated the effects on berry ripening of two thermal regimes, imposed from veraison to harvest. Potted vines were grown in two air-conditioned greenhouses with High Temperature (HT) and Low Temperature (LT) regimes characterized by 26 and 21°C as average and 42 and 35°C as maximum air daily temperature, respectively. We conducted analyses of the main berry compositional parameters, berry skin flavonoids and berry skin transcriptome on HT and LT berries sampled during ripening. The two thermal conditions strongly differentiated the berries. HT regime increased sugar accumulation at the beginning of ripening, but not at harvest, when HT treatment contributed to a slight total acidity reduction and pH increase. Conversely, growing temperatures greatly impacted on anthocyanin and flavonol concentrations, which resulted as strongly reduced, while no effects were found on skin tannins accumulation. Berry transcriptome was analyzed with several approaches in order to identify genes with different expression profile in berries ripened under HT or LT conditions. The analysis of whole transcriptome showed that the main differences emerging from this approach appeared to be more due to a shift in the ripening process, rather than to a strong rearrangement at transcriptional level, revealing that the LT temperature regime could delay berry ripening, at least in the early stages. Moreover, the results of the in-depth screening of genes differentially expressed in HT and LT did not highlight differences in the expression of transcripts involved in the biosynthesis of flavonoids (with the exception of PAL and STS) despite the enzymatic activities of PALs and UFGT being significantly higher in LT than HT. This suggests only a partial correlation between molecular and biochemical data in our conditions and the putative existence of post-transcriptional and post-translational mechanisms playing significant roles in the regulation of flavonoid metabolic pathways and in particular of anthocyanins.
| S-EPMC5460295 | biostudies-literature