Project description:The potato powdery scab agent Spongospora subterranea causes damage on the skin of tubers and induces root gall formation, precipitating considerable yield and quality losses. Currently, there are no effective chemical treatments for the control of powdery scabs. Understanding the inducible defence responses in roots of potato plants in the resistant and susceptible host environment, particularly during colonisation of the root by S. subterranea is required for the breeding of novel resistant cultivars. Here, we integrated transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics datasets to uncover the mechanisms underlying of the potato resistance to powdery scab. This multi-omics approach identified upregulation of glutathione metabolism at the levels of RNA, protein and metabolite in the resistant cultivar but not in the susceptible cultivar. Upregulation of the lignin metabolic process was also specific to in the resistant cultivar at the transcriptome level. In addition, Tthe inositol phosphate pathway was differentially expressed between two cultivars in response to S. subterranea infection, where it was upregulated in the susceptible cultivar but downregulated in the resistant cultivar. We provide, for the first time, large-scale multi-omics data of Spongospora-potato interaction, thereby suggesting the signaling role of glutathione metabolism in the potato resistance against powdery scab
Project description:28 Streptomyces strains isolated from common scab lesions of potato tubers from a wide geographic range in Norway, were selected for microarray analysis. The selected strains were subjected to species identification by microarray, 16S phylogenetic analysis and PCR; and microarray-based comparative genome analysis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of S. turgidiscabies and S. europaeiscabiei in Norway.
Project description:28 Streptomyces strains isolated from common scab lesions of potato tubers from a wide geographic range in Norway, were selected for microarray analysis. The selected strains were subjected to species identification by microarray, 16S phylogenetic analysis and PCR; and microarray-based comparative genome analysis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of S. turgidiscabies and S. europaeiscabiei in Norway. 28 Norwegian Streptomyces strains were hybridized in duplicates, one S.turgidiscabies strain (St32) and one S.scabies strain (ATCC49173) were hybridized in 4 replicates. Two out of 64 hybridizations failed (replicate hybridizations of Norwegian strains 33 and 44), for a total of 62 samples. Normalization was based on log-ratios against reference strain.
Project description:V. inaequalis causes apple scab disease, the most economically important disease of apples. In this study, we generated a comprehensive RNA-seq transcriptome of V. inaequalis during host colonization of apple, with six in planta time points (12hpi, 24hpi, 2dpi, 3dpi, 5dpi, 7dpi) and one in culture reference (fungus grown on cellophane membranes overlaying potato dextrose agar). Analysis of this transcriptome identified five in planta gene expression clusters or waves corresponding to three specific infection stages: early, mid and mid-late infection of subcuticular biotrophic host-colonization. In our analysis we focus on general fungal nutrition (plant cell wall degrading enzymes and transporters) as well as effectors (proteinaceous effectors and secondary metabolites). Early infection was characterized by the expression of genes that encode plant cell wall-degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) and proteins associated with oxidative stress responses. Mid-late infection was characterized by genes that encode PCWDEs and effector candidates (ECs).
Project description:Russet Nugget and the corresponding smooth skin mutant tubers harvested from disease and healthy filed plots. Tubers were washed with 10% Clorox and dried before harvesting tissue. Cortex and peel tissue was collected from healthy and infected regions of the mutant. Healthy peel and cortex tissue was collected from Russet Nugget (wild-type) potato tuber and snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80 °C. RNA was extracted from frozen tissues using a hot phenol method in triplicate from the different sets of tuber tissue. Extracted RNA was purified by Qiagen kits after treatment with DNAse. In all of these experiments RNA from Russet Nugget peel and cortex tissue will be used as reference samples where as mutant tissue will be used as query samples. Keywords: Direct comparison