Identification of Lens culinaris defense genes responsive to the anthracnose pathogen Colletotrichum truncatum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anthracnose of lentil, caused by the hemibiotrophic fungal pathogen Colletotrichum truncatum is a serious threat to lentil production in western Canada. Colletotrichum truncatum employs a bi-phasic infection strategy characterized by initial symptomless biotrophic and subsequent destructive necrotrophic colonization of its host. The transition from biotrophy to necrotrophy (known as the biotrophy-necrotrophy switch [BNS]) is critical in anthracnose development. Understanding plant responses during the BNS is the key to designing a strategy for incorporating resistance against hemibiotrophic pathogens either via introgression of resistance genes or quantitative trait loci contributing to host defense into elite cultivars, or via incorporation of resistance by biotechnolog

SUBMITTER: Bhadauria V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3666911 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature