Project description:This project aims at identifying secreted proteins that modulate plant immunity from Ustilaginoidea virens, which infects rice panicles and is the causal agent of rice false smut (RFS). The identified proteins will be expressed in plant and test whether they can induce cell death, induce plant immunity or suppress plant immunity.
Project description:Rice false smut is a common fungal disease caused by Ustilaginoidea virens. As it only scatter occured in panicle at florescence, little information is known about this crop disease. In the previous study, 3 uninterrupted infecting stages were divided and each stage was monitored by Solexa/Illumina’s digital gene expression (DGE) system, and all data were submitted to NCBI (GSE32010). As the disease was greatly affected by environment and to eliminate environment factor, an experimental replication was done in 2011. Samples collection and analysis were described in GSE32010. Our results contribute to the knowledge of understanding rice molecular mechanism in response to U. virens infection.