Project description:Rhizoctonia solani is a nectrotrophic fungal pathogen that causes billions of dollars of damage to agriculture worldwide and infects a broad host range including wheat, rice, potato and legumes. In this study we identify wheat genes that are differentially expressed in response to the R. solani isolate, AG8-1, using microarray technology. A significant number of wheat genes identified in this screen were involved in ROS production and redox regulation. Levels of ROS species were increased in wheat root tissue following R. solani infection as determined by NBT, DAB and titanium sulphate measurements/stainings. Pathogen/ROS related genes from R. solani were also tested for expression patterns upon wheat infection. TmpL, a R. solani gene homologous to a gene associated with ROS regulation in Alternaria brassicicola, and OAH, a R. solani gene homologous to oxaloacetate acetylhydrolase which has been shown to produce oxalic acid in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, were highly induced in R.solani when infecting wheat. We speculate that the wheat germin-like protein (GLP) is induced to inactivate the oxalic acid that is produced by the R. solani OAH.
Project description:We carried out an RNA-seq based transcriptome study on two rice varieties, Cocodrie (CCDR; rice sheath blight susceptible) and MCR10277 (MCR; rice sheath blight resistant), to profile the time-series wide genome-scale transcriptional differences in response to sheath blight (SB), an infection caused by R. solanii (LR172) . Our approach is cross-referencing differentially expressed genes with significant variants of two phenotypically different varieties to validate known and discover novel variants and to further understand rice's physiological response to SB.
Project description:Pls4 is a gene encoding a β -ketoacyl carrier protein reductase (KAR), which is mainly involved in biological processes such as cell membrane formation. However,the role of pls4 in rice sheath blight remains unclear. Our preliminary studies showed that rice pls4 mutants were highly susceptive to sheath blight in early development stage, and insensitive in adulthood. To explore the role of this gene in the occurrence of rice sheath blight, we compared the transcriptome profiles of rice pls4 mutant and wild-type by RNA-seq. The results showed that, 2569 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), and down-regulated genes were significantly enriched in defense response related biological stress. The expression pattern significantly changed in genes related to pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI), which were the main two innate immunity pathways in plants. The chitinase-related genes were mainly down-regulated, while both the disease-related genes and the related genes of the WRKY gene family were significantly up-regulated. Furthermore, 467 genes had significantly alternative splicing (AS) events. Among them, intron retention (IR) affected the gene expression levels and functions in vitamin B6 (VB6) metabolism pathway, which was related to sheath blight. This suggested that IR played an important role in sheath blight resistance of mutant pls4. In conclusion, these studies suggested that pls4 might be involved in the biological stress process of sheath blight by DEGs and the fine-tuning of IR, which would provide a molecular basis for the study of rice sheath blight resistance.
Project description:Rhizoctonia solani is an important root infecting pathogen of a range of food staples worldwide including wheat, rice, maize, soybean, potato and others. Conventional resistance breeding strategies are hindered by the absence of tractable genetic resistance in any crop host. Understanding the biology and pathogenicity mechanisms of this fungus is important for addressing these disease issues however, little is known about how R. solani causes disease. This study capitalises on recent genomic studies by applying mass spectrometry based proteomics to identify soluble, membrane-bound and culture filtrate proteins produced under wheat infection and vegetative growth conditions. Many of the proteins found in the culture filtrate had predicted functions relating to modification of the plant cell wall, a major activity required for pathogenesis on the plant host, including a number found only under infection conditions. Other infection related proteins included a high proportion of proteins with redox associated functions and many novel proteins without functional classification.
Project description:Rhizoctonia solani is a nectrotrophic fungal pathogen that causes billions of dollars of damage to agriculture worldwide and infects a broad host range including wheat, rice, potato and legumes. In this study we identify wheat genes that are differentially expressed in response to the R. solani isolate, AG8-1, using microarray technology. A significant number of wheat genes identified in this screen were involved in ROS production and redox regulation. Levels of ROS species were increased in wheat root tissue following R. solani infection as determined by NBT, DAB and titanium sulphate measurements/stainings. Pathogen/ROS related genes from R. solani were also tested for expression patterns upon wheat infection. TmpL, a R. solani gene homologous to a gene associated with ROS regulation in Alternaria brassicicola, and OAH, a R. solani gene homologous to oxaloacetate acetylhydrolase which has been shown to produce oxalic acid in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, were highly induced in R.solani when infecting wheat. We speculate that the wheat germin-like protein (GLP) is induced to inactivate the oxalic acid that is produced by the R. solani OAH. infected vs mock-infected seedlings, 3 biological replicates
Project description:Purpose:The goals of this study are to compare NGS-derived transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of different resistance to sheath blight in rice chromosome segment substitution lines