Project description:We report the first data of RNA sequencing of banana Musa acuminata cv. Pisang ambon kuning (AAA group) inoculated by two different endophyte bacteria named Stenothropomonas nitritireducens (BR-49) and Kocuria rhizophila (SL-08), respectively, prior to Fusarium oxysprorum f.sp. cubense tropical race 4 (Foc TR4).
Project description:Regulated host cell death is part of a plant defense strategy against pathogens but it is also involved in accommodating certain beneficial root microbes. We have identified extracellular metabolites and intracellular metabolic signals that contribute to beneficial root fungal endophyte colonization, and uncovered a conserved cell death mechanism likely co-opted for establishing plant-endophyte symbiosis.