Project description:Late blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, is one of the most damaging potato diseases. Genetic resistance is one of the most effective means to control the destruction caused by this pathogen. Transgenic potato lines harboring a resistance gene, RB, confer broad-spectrum, rate-reducing late blight resistance. A microarray approach was used to understand what genes are manipulated in the potato background after the addition of the RB gene that contribute to the late blight resistant phenotype. Keywords: Time course, disease state analysis
Project description:Late blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, is one of the most damaging potato diseases. Genetic resistance is one of the most effective means to control the destruction caused by this pathogen. Transgenic potato lines harboring a resistance gene, RB, confer broad-spectrum, rate-reducing late blight resistance. A microarray approach was used to understand what genes are manipulated in the potato background after the addition of the RB gene that contribute to the late blight resistant phenotype. Keywords: Time course, disease state analysis CRD (3x2x2) Split-Split Plot: 3 sampling time points after inoculation (2, 5, 10 hours), Two genotypes (Katahdin with and without the RB gene), Inoculation with P. infestans or mock inoculation with water. 48 arrays were hybridized in total; 12 in each biological replicate. Each genotype with the mock and late blight inoculated samples was hybridized on two arrays using a dye-swap procedure. Each genotype had a total of 6 arrays across the three sampling time points.
Project description:Late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans seriously threatens world’s potato production. Understanding the responsive mechanism of potato to P. infestans infection and exploring key regulators would be advantageous for improving the late blight resistance. Here, we assess the late blight resistance of various potato cultivars from Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and identified Chuan Liang Shu 10 (CLS) with strong resistant, while Bu Wu Yu (BWY) is highly susceptible. Comparative transcriptomics between these two cultivars upon P. infestans inoculation reveal that CLS activates defense pathways rapidly, while BWY prioritizes energy towards growth and development pathways, resulting in distinct late blight resistances. Specifically, the resistance of CLS might be contributed by enhanced oxidation-reduction process and SA signaling. Clustering analysis of the expression patterns for transcription factors (TFs) demonstrates that the WRKY family members play important roles in late blight resistance of CLS, among which StWRKY26 is identified as a positive regulator of late blight resistance. Silencing of StWRKY26 in CLS significantly compromise its intrinsic resistance to P. infestans. Our study enriches the knowledge of transcriptional responses of potato under P. infestans infection and provide candidate genes for breeding potato cultivars with strong late blight resistance.
Project description:Light intensity and spectral quality are two important factors that affect the cryopreservation success of plant germplasm. In a previous study, we found that LEDs with 90% red and 10% blue (RB) light have a positive effect on potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) shoot tip recovery during post-cryopreservation regeneration. In the present study, transcriptome profiles of non-cryopreserved (-) and cryopreserved (+) potato shoot tips exposed to RB, cool white fluorescent tubes (CW) and full darkness (D) were compared. Results indicated that light spectrum significantly affects transcript numbers in post-cryopreserved samples resulting in 3,284 differentially expressed genes of recovering shoot tips exposed to CW, RB and D. Gene ontology (GO) enrichment analysis revealed that several stress-related terms were more abundant in CW+, whereas morphogenesis-related processes were activated under RB+. Overall, cryopreservation had an extensive effect on gene expression, as 12,017 genes were differentially expressed in non-cryopreserved and cryopreserved shoot tips. Among all cryopreserved samples, enriched GO terms included various defense and stress responses to biotic stimuli and oxidative stress, whereas suppressed responses were mainly related to organ morphogenesis. The present study emphasizes that the optimization of light spectral properties to decrease light-related stress may greatly benefit the cryopreservation efficiency of plant germplasm.
Project description:Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.), as an important food crop on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is prone to low temperature and frost damage during the seedling stage, causing economic losses for farmers. In this study, transcriptome analyses were conducted on the leaves of Atlantic, KY130 and KY140 potato varieties following exposure to cold stress (CS). The genes StPAL(Soltu.Atl.09_2G005110) and StGAD(Soltu.Atl.11_3G000340), suggesting their involvement in the regulation of cold resistance in potato. “Flavonoid-related metabolism,” “lipid metabolism,” “amino acid metabolism,” “carbohydrate metabolism,” “nucleotide metabolism,” and “energy metabolism” might play an important role in the cold resistance of potato. Our results provided novel insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying cold resistance in potato.
Project description:Potato Late blight is one the most important crop diseases worldwide. Even though potato has been studied for many years, the potato disease late blight still has a huge negative effect on the potato production. A total of three commercially available field potato cultivars of different resistance to late blight infection: Kuras (moderate), Sarpo Mira (highly resistant) and Bintje (very suseptable) under controlled green house growing conditions innoculated with a diversity of P. infestans populations. We used label-free quantitative proteomics to investigate the infection with P. infestans in a time-course study over 258 hours. Several key issues limits proteome analysis of potato leaf tissue4–6. Firstly, the immense complexity of the plant proteome which is further complicated by the presence of highly abundant proteins, such as ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO). Secondly, plant leaf and potato in particular contain abundant levels amounts of phenols and polyphenols which hinder or, unless precautions are taken, completely prevent a successful protein extraction.
Project description:Potato leaves From Solanum tuberosum var. Kennebec will be wounded and oral secretions from 4th instar CPB will be isolated and added to the plants as described by Kruzmane et al (2002, Physiol. Plantarum 115:577-584). The leaf from the 6th node of the potato plant will be wounded or wounded and treated with oral secretions from CPB. Unwounded leaves from node 1-5 of the wounded and wounded plus oral secretions plants will be harvested as systemic material. The leaves will be harvested after 4 hrs and RNA will be isolated. 4 hrs was chosen because this represents a time when early and late induced genes should both be present. In addition, the leaf from the 6th node will be subjected to feeding by CPB that have been raised on potato leaves and starved for 16 hrs immediately prior to infestation. Insects will be allowed to feed for 1 hr and the leaves will be harvested after 3 additional hrs. An additional set of plants will be used to infest the leaf on the 6th node for 4 hrs. Leaves from the 6th node will be collected from uninfested plants after 4 hrs as a control. Three sets of 6-12 plants will be used for each sample. Keywords: Direct comparison