The origin, deployment, and evolution of a plant-parasitic nematode effectorome.

ABSTRACT: Plant-parasitic nematodes constrain global food security. During parasitism, they secrete effectors into the host plant from two types of pharyngeal gland cells. These effectors elicit profound changes in host biology to suppress immunity and establish a unique feeding organ from which the nematode draws nutrition. Despite the importance of effectors in nematode parasitism, there has been no comprehensive identification and characterisation of the effector repertoire of any plant-parasitic nematode. To address this, we advance techniques for gland cell isolation and transcriptional analysis to define a stringent annotation of putative effectors for the cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii at three key life-stages. We define 717 effector gene loci: 269 "known" high-confidence homologs of plan

SUBMITTER: Molloy B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11309470 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature