Insights into the Transcriptional Reprogramming of Peach Leaves Inoculated with Taphrina deformans.

ABSTRACT: The dimorphic fungus Taphrina deformans is the causal agent of peach leaf curl disease, which affects leaves, flowers, and fruits. An RNA-seq approach was employed to gain insights into the transcriptional reprogramming of a peach cultivar during leaf inoculation with the yeast phase of the fungus across a compatible interaction. The results uncovered modulations of specific peach differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in peaches and pathways related to either the induction of host defense responses or pathogen colonization and disease spread. Expression profiles of DEGs were shown to be highly time-dependent and related to the presence of the two forms of the fungal growth, the inoculated yeast form and the later biotrophic phase during mycelial development. In parallel, this differ

SUBMITTER: Maniatis EI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10976055 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature