Project description:For transcript analysis of early hypersensitive and susceptible responses of Medicago truncatula to the powdery mildew pathogen, Erysiphe pisi, we compared transcripts from pathogen-inoculated and control (non-inoculated) plants 12 h after infection in resistant (A14), partially resistant (A20), and susceptible (DZA315.16) genotypes. Published in: Medicago truncatula to the powdery mildew 1 and anthracnose pathogens, Erysiphe pisi and Colletotrichum trifolii. Molecular Plant Pathology 8(3):307-319 Keywords: 1 time points and 3 genotypes
Project description:Erysiphe pisi causes powdery mildew disease in garden pea. It is a biotrophic ascomycete member necessitating a living host for its survival. An attempt to identify the global proteome of E. pisi pathogen is made using a sensitive and reliable nano LC-MS/MS approach. The protein profiling of two isolates of E. pisi; Ep01 and Ep02 varying for virulence upon testing on a commercial cultivar, Arkel led to the detection of a total of 211 and 214 distinct proteins in Ep01 and Ep03 isolates respectively. In addition, a total of 203 and 207proteins from Ep01 and Ep03 isolates respectively were found to be hypothetical or proteins with not yet predicted functions based on GO (biological process). The protein accessions detected in these isolates were categorized into functional protein classes with some of the identified proteins reported to be involved in pathogenesis or virulence. The proteins belonging to the functional classes like stress related, signal transduction and secondary metabolite formation might be involved in virulence and pathogenesis. The proteome proposed in this study would serve as a reference proteome to facilitate the understanding of the functional aspects of an obligate biotrophic fungal pathogen.
Project description:To explore the transcriptional regulations in pip5k1 pip5k2 mutant and wild type plants before or after inoculation with powdery mildew Erysiphe cichoracearum
Project description:Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei is an obligate biotrohic fungal pathogen causing powdery mildew in barley. As for other biotrophic fungi, haustorial structures are at the centre of the biotrophic interaction and molecular exchanges, delivering fungal effectors or virulence factors, and taking nutrient from the host. Haustoria are originiated by the fungus, following successful penetration of the initial penetration peg through the plant cell call. Haustorial structures mainly of fungal origin, but they are surrounding by a plant component, the extrauhaustorial membrane and matrix (EHM and EHMx) forming the extrahuastorial complex (EHMc). The plant protein make-up of the plant extrahaustorial components remained unexplored, and this is a first study trying to describe plant proteome associated with haustoria using samples enriched for these structures. Therefore, proteomes of haustoria enriched samples from the epidermis of barley leaves infected with Blumeria graminins f.sp. hordei, the causing agent of barley powdery mildew, were compared to infected epidermis and un-infected epidermis to identify haustoria associated plant proteins. Haustoria were enriched from infected epidermis by digesting epidermal cell walls with cell wall degrading enzymes prior to enrichment for haustorial structures. Proteins identified in these samples were compared to infected and uninfected epidermis samples using a non-targeted label free semi-quantitation method.
