Project description:We used two wheat genotypes, the susceptible wheat cultivar ‘8866 ’(S) and its near isogenic line with single powdery mildew resistance gene ‘pm30’ (R), to investigate gene expression changes in response to powdery mildew infection by using Wheat Genome Array
Project description:We performed RNA-sequencing of Golovinomyces orontii-infected Arabidopsis leaves of wild type, the double or triple mutants of AtMLKLs to examine the role of AtMLKLs in response to the powdery mildew fungus.
Project description:The edr1 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana displays enhanced resistance to the powdery mildew Golovinomyces cichoracearum, resulting in cell death and an absence of visible disease symptoms. To better characterize and understand the defense response of edr1, a time course of early signaling responses was performed after inoculation with powdery mildew and compared to the responses of wild-type Col-0. These time points represent early stages in the infection process, before any signs of susceptibility or resistance are visible.
Project description:We used two wheat genotypes, the susceptible wheat cultivar ‘8866 ’(S) and its near isogenic line with single powdery mildew resistance gene ‘pm30’ (R), to investigate gene expression changes in response to powdery mildew infection by using Wheat Genome Array wheat young leveas of near isogenic lines before or 12 hours after powdery mildew infection were selected for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays.The leaf samples were harvested from three independent biological replicates, and the leaves without inoculation were regarded as control.
Project description:Powdery mildew, caused by the fungus Blumeria graminis (DC) Speer, is one of the most important foliar diseases of cereals worldwide. It is an obligate biotrophic parasite, colonising leaf epidermal cells to obtain nutrients from the plant cells without killing them. Syringolin A (sylA), a circular peptide secreted by the phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, triggers a hypersensitive cell death reaction (HR) at infection sites when sprayed onto powdery mildew infected wheat which essentially eradicates the fungus. The rational was to identify genes whose expression was specifically regulated during HR, i.e. genes that might be involved in the switch of compatibility to incompatibility.<br>Powdery mildew-infected or uninfected plants were treated with syringolin two days after infection and plant material for RNA extraction was collected at 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 12 hours after treatment (hat), resulting in an early (2 and 4 hat) and late pool (8 and 12 hat). Plant material that was uninfected prior to syringolin treatment was collected 8 and 12 hat (late pool of uninfected plant material), and 1 hat, respectively.
Project description:Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei is an obligate biotrohic fungal pathogen causing powdery mildew in barley. As for other biotrophic fungi, haustorial structures are at the centre of the biotrophic interaction and molecular exchanges, delivering fungal effectors or virulence factors, and taking nutrient from the host. Haustoria are originiated by the fungus, following successful penetration of the initial penetration peg through the plant cell call. Haustorial structures mainly of fungal origin, but they are surrounding by a plant component, the extrauhaustorial membrane and matrix (EHM and EHMx) forming the extrahuastorial complex (EHMc). The plant protein make-up of the plant extrahaustorial components remained unexplored, and this is a first study trying to describe plant proteome associated with haustoria using samples enriched for these structures. Therefore, proteomes of haustoria enriched samples from the epidermis of barley leaves infected with Blumeria graminins f.sp. hordei, the causing agent of barley powdery mildew, were compared to infected epidermis and un-infected epidermis to identify haustoria associated plant proteins. Haustoria were enriched from infected epidermis by digesting epidermal cell walls with cell wall degrading enzymes prior to enrichment for haustorial structures. Proteins identified in these samples were compared to infected and uninfected epidermis samples using a non-targeted label free semi-quantitation method.
Project description:To investigate the candidate genes governing Pm5.1 and their effects on powdery resistance, the RNA-sequencing based transcriptomes of the powdery mildew resistant segment substitution line SSL508-28 and recurrent parent D8 were compared 48 h after inoculation with the PM pathogen.
Project description:Powdery mildew caused by Erysiphe cruciferarum, is an epidemic of oil rapeseed (Brassica napus) growing worldwide, but resistant germplasm is rare in this species. We obtained the hybrid seeds of distant hybridization between powdery-mildew-immune Brassica carinata cultivar ‘White flower’ and susceptible B. napus cultivar ‘Zhongshuang11’. Five lines in the BC1F3 generation (F3 after backcross to 'Zhongshuang11') were identified to be resistant or moderately resistant. In order to identify the important biological responses to powdery mildew, the foliar transcriptomes of the resistant and susceptible plants in these progenies after powdery mildew inoculation were compared by using Illumina RNA-seq. We identified 10,454 differential expression genes (DEGs) and 1050 genes out of them are related to disease resistance. There were 271 DEGs in Group Resistance expressed at least two fold higher than in group S, while 779 DGEs expressed two fold lower. The genes highly expressed in Group Resistance are those encoding the proteins: (1) related to wax, chloroplast and cell wall metabolism, such as KCS6, CSP41B, RWA, callose synthetase 3, pectinase 9, fructosidase 2, 9s-lipoxygenase LOX2, etc.; (2) kinases including RKL, ERECTA, BAK1, BAM2, LysM receptor like kinase, and lipid transfer protein kinase ERl1 and ERl2; (3) broad spectrum powdery mildew resistance proteins RPW8, calmodulin MLO2, PMR5, MLP328, EDR2, RPS4 and RPS6, etc. In group susceptible, pectinesterase, cytochrome CYP81f2, LOX1, cysteine rich receptor protein kinases and serine / threonine protein kinases such as MEKK, RLK6, CRK45, APK1, BRl3, WAK1, WAK10, etc., and TIR-NB-LRR receptor like proteins R1M1, DSC1, DSC2 and pathogenesis-related protein PR-1 etc. were the most activated genes. The results provide the preliminarily knowledge about molecular mechanism in rapeseed defense response to powdery mildew.
Project description:To explore the transcriptional regulations in pip5k1 pip5k2 mutant and wild type plants before or after inoculation with powdery mildew Erysiphe cichoracearum