Campus Units
Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Genome Informatics Facility
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
12-21-2015
Journal or Book Title
BMC Genomics
Volume
16
First Page
1089
DOI
10.1186/s12864-015-2318-2
Abstract
Background
Fusarium oxysporum is one of the most common fungal pathogens causing soybean root rot and seedling blight in U.S.A. In a recent study, significant variation in aggressiveness was observed among isolates of F. oxysporum collected from roots in Iowa, ranging from highly pathogenic to weakly or non-pathogenic isolates.
Results
We used RNA-seq analysis to investigate the molecular aspects of the interactions of a partially resistant soybean genotype with non-pathogenic/pathogenic isolates of F. oxysporum at 72 and 96 h post inoculation (hpi). Markedly different gene expression profiles were observed in response to the two isolates. A peak of highly differentially expressed genes (HDEGs) was triggered at 72 hpi in soybean roots and the number of HDEGs was about eight times higher in response to the pathogenic isolate compared to the non-pathogenic one (1,659 vs. 203 HDEGs, respectively). Furthermore, the magnitude of induction was much greater in response to the pathogenic isolate. This response included a stronger activation of defense-related genes, transcription factors, and genes involved in ethylene biosynthesis, secondary and sugar metabolism.
Conclusions
The obtained data provide an important insight into the transcriptional responses of soybean-F. oxysporum interactions and illustrate the more drastic changes in the host transcriptome in response to the pathogenic isolate. These results may be useful in the developing new methods of broadening resistance of soybean to F. oxysporum, including the over-expression of key soybean genes.
Rights
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Copyright Owner
Lanubile et al.
Copyright Date
2015
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Lanubile, Alessandra; Muppirala, Usha K.; Severin, Andrew J.; Marocco, Adriano; and Munkvold, Gary P., "Transcriptome profiling of soybean (Glycine max) roots challenged with pathogenic and non-pathogenic isolates of Fusarium oxysporum" (2015). Plant Pathology and Microbiology Publications. 91.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/plantpath_pubs/91
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Comments
This article is from BMC Genomics 16 (2015): 1089, doi:10.1186/s12864-015-2318-2. Posted with permission.