Chilli leaf curl virus infection downregulates the expression of the genes encoding chloroplast proteins and stress-related proteins.

ABSTRACT: Virus infection alters the expression of several host genes involved in various cellular and biological processes in plants. Most of the studies performed till now have mainly focused on genes which are up-regulated and later projected them as probable stress tolerant/susceptible genes. Nevertheless, genes which are down-regulated during plant-virus interaction could also play a critical role on disease development as well as in combating the virus infection. Hence, to identify such down-regulated genes and pathway, we performed reverse suppression subtractive hybridization in Capsicum annuum var. Punjab Lal following Chilli leaf curl virus (ChiLCV) infection. The screening and further processing suggested that majority of the genes (approximately 35% ESTs) showed homology wi

SUBMITTER: Kushwaha NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6745583 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature