Dynamic expression of Ralstonia solanacearum virulence factors and metabolism-controlling genes during plant infection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ralstonia solanacearum is the causal agent of bacterial wilt, a devastating plant disease responsible for serious economic losses especially on potato, tomato, and other solanaceous plant species in temperate countries. In R. solanacearum, gene expression analysis has been key to unravel many virulence determinants as well as their regulatory networks. However, most of these assays have been performed using either bacteria grown in minimal medium or in planta, after symptom onset, which occurs at late stages of colonization. Thus, little is known about the genetic program that coordinates virulence gene expression and metabolic adaptation along the different stages of plant infection by R. solanacearum.

Results

We performed an RNA-sequencing analysis of the transc

SUBMITTER: de Pedro-Jove R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7941725 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature