Early molecular signatures of responses of wheat to Zymoseptoria tritici in compatible and incompatible interactions.

ABSTRACT: Zymoseptoria tritici, the causal agent of septoria tritici blotch, a serious foliar disease of wheat, is a necrotrophic pathogen that undergoes a long latent period. Emergence of insensitivity to fungicides, and pesticide reduction policies, mean there is a pressing need to understand septoria and control it through greater varietal resistance. Stb6 and Stb15, the most common qualitative resistance genes in modern wheat cultivars, determine specific resistance to avirulent fungal genotypes following a gene-for-gene relationship. This study investigated compatible and incompatible interactions of wheat with Z. tritici using eight combinations of cultivars and isolates, with the aim of identifying molecular responses that could be used as markers for disease resis

SUBMITTER: Orton ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5349288 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature