The GhSWEET42 Glucose Transporter Participates in Verticillium dahliae Infection in Cotton.

ABSTRACT: The SWEET (sugars will eventually be exported transporter) proteins, a family of sugar transporters, mediate sugar diffusion across cell membranes. Pathogenic fungi can acquire sugars from plant cells to satisfy their nutritional demands for growth and infection by exploiting plant SWEET sugar transporters. However, the mechanism underlying the sugar allocation in cotton plants infected by Verticillium dahliae, the causative agent of Verticillium wilt, remains unclear. In this study, observations of the colonization of cotton roots by V. dahliae revealed that a large number of conidia had germinated at 48-hour post-inoculation (hpi) and massive hyphae had appeared at 96 hpi. The glucose content in the infected roots was significantly increased at 48 hpi. On the basis o

SUBMITTER: Sun M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8353158 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature