Floral transition in maize infected with Sporisorium reilianum disrupts compatibility with this biotrophic fungal pathogen

ABSTRACT: Sporisorium reilianum f. sp. zeae is an important biotrophic pathogen that causes head smut disease in maize. Head smut is not obvious until the tassels and ears emerge. S. reilianum has a very long life cycle that spans almost the entire developmental program of maize after the pathogen successfully invades the root. The aim of this study was to understand at a molecular level how this pathogen interacts with the host during its long life cycle, and how this interaction differs between susceptible and resistant varieties of maize after hyphal invasion. We investigated transcriptional changes in the resistant maize line Mo17 at four developmental stages using a maize 70mer-oligonucleotide microarray. We found that there was a lengthy compatible relationship between the pathogen and host un

ORGANISM(S): Zea mays subsp. mays

SUBMITTER: shaopeng zhang 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-41916 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress