Transcriptome profiling of the rice blast fungus during invasive plant infection and in vitro stresses.
BACKGROUND
Rice blast is the most threatening disease to cultivated rice. Magnaporthe oryzae, its causal agent, is likely to encounter environmental challenges during invasive growth in its host plants that require shifts in gene expression to establish a compatible interaction. Here, we tested the hypothesis that gene expression patterns during in planta invasive growth are similar to in vitro stress conditions, such as nutrient limitation, temperature up shift and oxidative stress, and determined which condition most closely mimicked that of in planta invasive growth. Gene expression data were collected from these in vitro experiments and compared to fungal gene expression during the invasive growth phase at 72 hours post-inoculation in compatible interactions on two grass hosts, rice and barley.


RESULTS
We identified 4,973 genes that were differentially expressed in at least one of the in planta and in vitro stress conditions when compared to fungal mycelia grown in complete medium, which was used as reference. From those genes, 1,909 showed similar expression patterns between at least one of the in vitro stresses and rice and/or barley. Hierarchical clustering of these 1,909 genes showed three major clusters in which in planta conditions closely grouped with the nutrient starvation conditions. Out of these 1,909 genes, 55 genes and 129 genes were induced and repressed in all treatments, respectively. Functional categorization of the 55 induced genes revealed that most were either related to carbon metabolism, membrane proteins, or were involved in oxidoreduction reactions. The 129 repressed genes showed putative roles in vesicle trafficking, signal transduction, nitrogen metabolism, or molecular transport.


CONCLUSIONS
These findings suggest that M. oryzae is likely primarily coping with nutrient-limited environments at the invasive growth stage 72 hours post-inoculation, and not with oxidative or temperature stresses.
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Sandra M
SM
Mathioni
André
A
Beló
Christopher J
CJ
Rizzo
Ralph A
RA
Dean
Nicole M
NM
Donofrio
D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D020082:Magnaporthe / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D012275:Oryza / Q000382:microbiology*; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000502:physiology; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013696:Temperature
D005656:Fungal Proteins
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