Kinase-dead mutation: A novel strategy for improving soybean resistance to soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines.

ABSTRACT: Protein kinases phosphorylate proteins for functional changes and are involved in nearly all cellular processes, thereby regulating almost all aspects of plant growth and development, and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. We generated two independent co-expression networks of soybean genes using control and stress response gene expression data and identified 392 differentially highly interconnected kinase hub genes among the two networks. Of these 392 kinases, 90 genes were identified as "syncytium highly connected hubs", potentially essential for activating kinase signalling pathways in the nematode feeding site. Overexpression of wild-type coding sequences of five syncytium highly connected kinase hub genes using transgenic soybean hairy roots enhanced plant susceptibility to soy

SUBMITTER: Piya S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8828698 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature