Diverse responses of wild and cultivated tomato to BABA, oligandrin and Oidium neolycopersici infection.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Current strategies for increased crop protection of susceptible tomato plants against pathogen infections include treatment with synthetic chemicals, application of natural pathogen-derived compounds or transfer of resistance genes from wild tomato species within breeding programmes. In this study, a series of 45 genes potentially involved in defence mechanisms was retrieved from the genome sequence of inbred reference tomato cultivar Solanum lycopersicum 'Heinz 1706'. The aim of the study was to analyse expression of these selected genes in wild and cultivated tomato plants contrasting in resistance to the biotrophic pathogen Oidium neolycopersici , the causative agent of powdery mildew. Plants were treated either solely with potential resistance inducers or by

SUBMITTER: Satkova P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5378190 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature