Project description:Phytophthora infestans is most notorious oomycete causing a devastating disease on tomato called late blight. The molecular mechanisms involved in host-parasite interaction is still unexplored well. Investigation of changes in gene expression profile after pathogen infection to find out the mechanisms involved in infection process Second full expanded leaves from both healthy tomato plants (non-inoculated) and diseased tomato plants inoculated with Phytophthora infestans inoculum were used to extract total RNA for microarry analysis 12 hours post inoculation time.
Project description:Phytophthora infestans is most notorious oomycete causing a devastating disease on tomato called late blight. The molecular mechanisms involved in host-parasite interaction is still unexplored well. Investigation of changes in gene expression profile after pathogen infection to find out the mechanisms involved in infection process
Project description:Phosphonate related fungicides such as neutralized phosphorous acid (NPA) are effective for the control of plant diseases caused by Oomycetes including Phytophthora parasitica. It has been proposed that phosphonate may induce plant resistance. However, the mechanism underlying phosphonate-induced resistance remains unclear. The purpose of this study is to identify genes that are differentially expressed in phosphonate-pretreated tomato plants in response to inoculation with Phytophthora parasitica.
Project description:Phosphonate related fungicides such as neutralized phosphorous acid (NPA) are effective for the control of plant diseases, especially those caused by Phytophthora and other oomycetes. It has been suggested that phosphonate may induce plant resistance, however, the mechanism is not clear thus far. We performed microarray analysis using Affymetrix Tomato Genome Array to identify tomato genes that are differentially expressed in response to NPA treatment.
Project description:In this RNA-seq study, we compared the transcriptome of three Fragaria vesca genotypes in response to Phytophthora cactorum. The goal of our study was to dissect the resistance mechanism of the diploid strawberry (F. vesca) that are resistant to P. cactorum. A susceptible genotype (NCGR1218) and two resistant (NCGR1603 and Bukammen) F. vesca genotypes were used for the comparative transcriptome analyses. Plants were inoculated with P. cactorum zoospores (2mL of 2 × 105 spores/mL) in the crown (rhizome) and sampled 48 hours later. The appropriate controls for each genotype were i) samples wounded and inoculated with water and sampled 48 hours after the treatment and ii) untreated samples. Four biological replicates, each consisting of four individual test plants from each genotype were used for the transcriptome study. All the samples were collected from the crown, flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80 °C until RNA isolation. Total RNA was isolated using the SpectrumTM Plant Total RNA Kit (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. For sequencing, the libraries were prepared using the TruSeqTM stranded total RNA library prep kit (Illumina, USA), indexed and pooled, and sequenced in four lanes using the Illumina HiSeq 3/4000 (2×150 bp) System by the Norwegian Sequencing Centre, Oslo, Norway. Raw reads were quality filtered, de novo assembled into transcripts and were analysed for differentially expressed genes between the inoculated and control samples.