Abstract
Oidium neolycopersici is a causal agent of tomato powdery mildew. In this paper, gene expression profiles were investigated of susceptible, monogenic- and polygenic resistant tomato genotypes in response to O. neolycopersici infection by using cDNA-AFLP. Around 30,000 TDFs (Transcript Derived Fragments), representing ∼22% of the transcriptome based on in silico estimation, were identified and 887 TDFs were differentially expressed (DE-TDFs) upon inoculation with O. neolycopersici spores. Forty-two percent of the identified DE-TDFs were detected in both the compatible and incompatible interactions, a subset of these were studied for their temporal patterns. All of these common induced DE-TDFs displayed an expression peak at 7 days post incoluation in monogenic resistant response but sustained up-regulation in the susceptible and the polygenic resistant response. While more than half of these common DE-TDFs showed earlier timing in incompatible interactions compared to compatible interaction. Only 2% of the identified DE-TDFs were specific to either the monogenic or the polygenic resistant response. By annotation of the 230 sequenced DE-TDFs we found that 34% of the corresponding transcripts were known to be involved in plant defense, whereas the other transcripts played general roles in signal transduction (11%), regulation (24%), protein synthesis and degradation (11%), energy metabolism (12%) including photosynthesis, photorespiration and respiration.
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Abbreviations
- DE-TDF:
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Differentially expressed TDF
- DPI:
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Days post inoculation
- HPI:
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Hours post inoculation
- TDF:
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Transcript derived fragment
- HR:
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Hypersensitive response
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We would like to thank Dr C. Bachem for the advice and help on cDNA-AFLP, Dr X. Wang for helpful discussion and Ms J. Tang for the help on developing computer program RE-predictor. This work was supported by the Joint PhD program between Wageningen University and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and by the grants of International Foundation for Science (C/3395–1), the Laboratory of Plant Breeding of Wageningen University, and by the opening Key Laboratory of Vegetable Genetics and Physiology of Chinese Ministry of Agriculture.
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Li, C., Bai, Y., Jacobsen, E. et al. Tomato defense to the powdery mildew fungus: differences in expression of genes in susceptible, monogenic- and polygenic resistance responses are mainly in timing. Plant Mol Biol 62, 127–140 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-006-9008-z
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