Identification of Powdery Mildew Responsive Genes in Hevea brasiliensis through mRNA Differential Display.

ABSTRACT: Powdery mildew is an important disease of rubber trees caused by Oidium heveae B. A. Steinmann. As far as we know, none of the resistance genes related to powdery mildew have been isolated from the rubber tree. There is little information available at the molecular level regarding how a rubber tree develops defense mechanisms against this pathogen. We have studied rubber tree mRNA transcripts from the resistant RRIC52 cultivar by differential display analysis. Leaves inoculated with the spores of O. heveae were collected from 0 to 120 hpi in order to identify pathogen-regulated genes at different infection stages. We identified 78 rubber tree genes that were differentially expressed during the plant-pathogen interaction. BLAST analysis for these 78 ESTs classified them into seven functiona

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4783915 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature