Project description:Lasiodiplodia theobromae is one of the causal agents of Grapevine trunk diseases, which becomes a tremendous threat to the grapevine production worldwide. Plant pathogens secrete diverse effectors to suppress host immune responses or regulate the host metabolism to promote diseases. Our results suggest that L. theobromae LtCre1 targets host VvRHIP1 to manipulate the sugar signaling pathway, through disrupting the association of VvRHIP1 and VvRGS1 complex.
Project description:A multi-omics approach was used to understand how temperature affects the molecular mechanisms of pathogenicity of Lasiodiplodia theobromae at different temperatures. The transcriptome (Illumina TruSeq) of LA-SOL3 strain grown at 25 °C and 37 °C was analysed.
Project description:Botryosphaeriaceae is an important fungal family that can colonize a wide range of woody hosts including economically important plants and cause serious diseases worldwide. To uncover the virulence variation in Lasiodiplodia theobromae, we sequenced the transcriptome of Las1 in L. theobromae inoculated with the stems of V.vinifera using dual-RNAseq method. We found a lot of expanded genes were induced after inoculated with grapevine compared with the transcriptome of Las1 that was maintained in PDA under the same condition.
Project description:Fungal proteomics is a developing field that requires renewed interest and attention from the scientific community in many aspects. One of the most compelling objectives of fungal biology is to find out how fungal pathogens colonize a host, in order to find new ways of impeding this colonization, and proteomics is an important and useful tool to this end. However, fungi are also taxonomically interesting and are important biochemical model organisms for the study of many cellular processes, such as cytoskeletal regulation. Additionally, fungi are sources of secondary metabolites, many of which serve as medications for humans. Nevertheless, much work remains in developing systems-biology approaches to understanding fungal gene expression and secondary metabolism. Current fungal proteomics approaches involve 2D SDS-PAGE and extensive, complex, protein extraction methodologies. In this work, an application of a modified Folch extraction to protein extraction was used to perform de novo peptide sequencing of the proteome from the plant and human pathogen Lasiodiplodia theobromae, which greatly streamlined and simplified the analysis process. Using a metaproteomics bioinformatics approach, many novel proteins for L. theobromae were identified and targeted for further biochemical characterization and annotation efforts.