Transcriptomic profiling reveals the complex interaction between a bipartite begomovirus and a cucurbitaceous host plant.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Begomoviruses are major constraint in the production of many crops. Upon infection, begomoviruses may substantially modulate plant biological processes. While how monopartite begomoviruses interact with their plant hosts has been investigated extensively, bipartite begomoviruses-plant interactions are understudied. Moreover, as one of the major groups of hosts, cucurbitaceous plants have been seldom examined in the interaction with begomoviruses.

Results

We profiled the zucchini transcriptomic changes induced by a bipartite begomovirus squash leaf curl China virus (SLCCNV). We identified 2275 differentially-expressed genes (DEGs), of which 1310 were upregulated and 965 were downregulated. KEGG enrichment analysis of the DEGs revealed that many pathways related to

SUBMITTER: He WZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409788 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature