Analysis of sea-island cotton and upland cotton in response to Verticillium dahliae infection by RNA sequencing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cotton Verticillium wilt is a serious soil-borne vascular disease that causes great economic loss each year. However, due to the lack of resistant varieties of upland cotton, the molecular mechanisms of resistance to this disease, especially to the pathogen Verticillium dahliae, remain unclear.

Results

We used the RNA-seq method to research the molecular mechanisms of cotton defence responses to different races of Verticillium dahliae by comparing infected sea-island cotton and upland cotton. A total of 77,212 unigenes were obtained, and the unigenes were subjected to BLAST searching and annotated using the GO and KO databases. Six sets of digital gene expression data were mapped to the reference transcriptome. The gene expression profiles of cotton infected with

SUBMITTER: Sun Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3878982 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature