Transcript profiling reveals potential regulators for oxidative stress response of a necrotrophic chickpea pathogen Ascochyta rabiei.

ABSTRACT: Necrotrophic pathogens experience host-generated oxidative stress during pathogenesis. They overcome such hostile environment by intricate mechanisms which are largely understudied. In this article, reference-based transcriptome analysis of a devastating Ascochyta Blight (AB) disease causing chickpea pathogen Ascochyta rabiei was explored to get insights into survival mechanisms under oxidative stress. Here, expression profiling of mock-treated and menadione-treated fungus was carried out by RNA-Seq approach. A significant number of genes in response to oxidative stress were overrepresented, suggestive of a robust and coordinated defense system of A. rabiei. A total 73 differentially expressed genes were filtered out from both the transcriptomes, among them 64 were up-regulat

SUBMITTER: Maurya R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7024074 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature