Photosynthesis-related genes induce resistance against soybean mosaic virus: Evidence for involvement of the RNA silencing pathway.

ABSTRACT: Increasing lines of evidence indicate that chloroplast-related genes are involved in plant-virus interactions. However, the involvement of photosynthesis-related genes in plant immunity is largely unexplored. Analysis of RNA-Seq data from the soybean cultivar L29, which carries the Rsv3 resistance gene, showed that several chloroplast-related genes were strongly induced in response to infection with an avirulent strain of soybean mosaic virus (SMV), G5H, but were weakly induced in response to a virulent strain, G7H. For further analysis, we selected the PSaC gene from the photosystem I and the ATP-synthase α-subunit (ATPsyn-α) gene whose encoded protein is part of the ATP-synthase complex. Overexpression of either gene within the G7H genome reduced virus levels in the susceptible cultivar

SUBMITTER: Bwalya J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8916206 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature