Transcriptome-Assisted SNP Marker Discovery for Phytophthora infestans Resistance in Solanum lycopersicum L.

ABSTRACT: Late blight, caused by oomycetes Phytophthora infestans is one of the most challenging fungal diseases to manage in tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L.). Toward managing the disease, conventional breeding has successfully introgressed genetic loci conferring disease resistance from various wild relatives of tomato into commercial varieties. The cataloging of disease-associated SNP markers and a deeper understanding of disease-resistance mechanisms are needed to keep up with the demand for commercial varieties resistant against emerging pathogen strains. To this end, we performed transcriptome sequencing to evaluate the gene expression dynamics of tomato varieties, resistant and susceptible to Phytophthora infection. Further integrating the transcriptome dataset with

SUBMITTER: Deb S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10095378 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature