Ping Qiu, Baoxin Zheng, Hang Yuan, Zhaoguang Yang, Keith Lindsey, Yan Wang, Yuqing Ming, Lin Zhang, Qin Hu, Muhammad Shaban, Jie Kong, Xianlong Zhang, Longfu Zhu
Verticillium dahliae is a widespread and destructive soilborne vascular pathogenic fungus that causes serious diseases in dicot plants. Here, comparative transcriptome analysis showed that the number of genes upregulated in defoliating pathotype V991 was significantly higher than in the non-defoliating pathotype 1cd3-2 during the early response of cotton. Combined with analysis of the secretome during the V991-cotton interaction, an elicitor VP2 was identified, which was highly upregulated at the early stage of V991 invasion, but was barely expressed during the 1cd3-2-cotton interaction...
October 26, 2023: Plant Biotechnology Journal