Pscroph, a parasitic plant EST database enriched for parasite associated transcripts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parasitic plants in the Orobanchaceae develop invasive root haustoria upon contact with host roots or root factors. The development of haustoria can be visually monitored and is rapid, highly synchronous, and strongly dependent on host factor exposure; therefore it provides a tractable system for studying chemical communications between roots of different plants.

Description

Triphysaria is a facultative parasitic plant that initiates haustorium development within minutes after contact with host plant roots, root exudates, or purified haustorium-inducing phenolics. In order to identify genes associated with host root identification and early haustorium development, we sequenced suppression subtractive libraries (SSH) enriched for transcripts regulated in Triphysari

SUBMITTER: Torres MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1325228 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature