Campus Units
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
8-2003
Journal or Book Title
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
Volume
16
Issue
8
First Page
720
Last Page
726
DOI
10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.8.720
Abstract
Parasitism genes expressed in the esophageal gland cells of phytonematodes encode secretions that control the complex process of plant parasitism. In the soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines, the parasitome, i.e., the secreted products of parasitism genes, facilitate nematode migration in soybean roots and mediate the modification of root cells into elaborate feeding cells required to support the growth and development of the nematode. With very few exceptions, the identities of these secretions are unknown, and the mechanisms of cyst nematode parasitism, therefore, remain obscure. The most direct and efficient approach for cloning parasitism genes and rapidly advancing our understanding of the molecular interactions during nematode parasitism of plants is to create gland cell-specific cDNA libraries using cytoplasm microaspirated from the esophageal gland cells of various parasitic stages. By combining expressed sequence tag analysis of a gland cell cDNA library with high throughput in situ expression localization of clones encoding secretory proteins, we obtained the first comprehensive parasitome profile for a parasitic nematode. We identified 51 new H. glycines gland-expressed candidate parasitism genes, of which 38 genes constitute completely novel sequences. Individual parasitome members showed distinct gland cell expression patterns throughout the parasitic cycle. The parasitome complexity discovered paints a more elaborate picture of host cellular events under specific control by the nematode parasite than previously hypothesized.
Copyright Owner
The American Phytopathological Society
Copyright Date
2003
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Gao, Bingli; Allen, R.; Maier, Tom; Davis, Eric L.; Baum, Thomas J.; and Hussey, Richard S., "The Parasitome of the Phytonematode Heterodera glycines" (2003). Plant Pathology and Microbiology Publications. 164.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/plantpath_pubs/164
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Comments
This article is published as Gao, Bingli, R. Allen, Tom Maier, Eric L. Davis, Thomas J. Baum, and Richard S. Hussey. "The parasitome of the phytonematode Heterodera glycines." Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 16, no. 8 (2003): 720-726, doi: 10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.8.720. Posted with permission.