Fortunella margarita transcriptional reprogramming triggered by Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Citrus canker disease caused by the bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri (Xcc) has become endemic in areas where high temperature, rain, humidity, and windy conditions provide a favourable environment for the dissemination of the bacterium. Xcc is pathogenic on many commercial citrus varieties but appears to elicit an incompatible reaction on the citrus relative Fortunella margarita Swing (kumquat), in the form of a very distinct delayed necrotic response. We have developed subtractive libraries enriched in sequences expressed in kumquat leaves during both early and late stages of the disease. The isolated differentially expressed transcripts were subsequently sequenced. Our results demonstrate how the use of microarray expression profiling can help assign r

SUBMITTER: Khalaf AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3235979 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature