title: The effect on the transcriptome of Anemone coronaria following infection with rust (Tranzschelia discolor).
abstract: In order to understand plant/pathogen interaction, the transcriptome of uninfected (1S) and infected (2I) plant was sequenced at 3'end by the GS FLX 454 platform. De novo assembly of high-quality reads generated 27,231 contigs leaving 37,191 singletons in the 1S and 38,393 in the 2I libraries. ESTcalc tool suggested that 71% of the transcriptome had been captured, with 99% of the genes present being represented by at least one read. Unigene annotation showed that 50.5% of the predicted translation products shared significant homology with protein sequences in GenBank. In all 253 differential transcript abundance (DTAs) were in higher abundance and 52 in lower abundance in the 2I library. 128 higher abundance DTA genes were of fungal origin and 49 were clearly plant sequences. A tBLASTn-based search of the sequences using as query the full length predicted polypeptide product of 50 R genes identified 16 R gene products. Only one R gene (PGIP) was up-regulated. The response of the plant to fungal invasion included the up-regulation of several pathogenesis related protein (PR) genes involved in JA signaling and other genes associated with defense response and down regulation of cell wall associated genes, non-race-specific disease resistance1 (NDR1) and other genes like myb, presqualene diphosphate phosphatase (PSDPase), a UDP-glycosyltransferase 74E2-like (UGT). The DTA genes identified here should provide a basis for understanding the A. coronaria/T. discolor interaction and leads for biotechnology-based disease resistance breeding.
authors.affiliation: CRA-Unità di Ricerca per la Floricoltura e le Specie Ornamentali, Corso Inglesi 508, 18038 Sanremo (IM), Italy.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laura
authors.affiliation: CRA-Unità di Ricerca per la Floricoltura e le Specie Ornamentali, Corso Inglesi 508, 18038 Sanremo (IM), Italy.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Borghi
authors.affiliation: CRA-Unità di Ricerca per la Floricoltura e le Specie Ornamentali, Corso Inglesi 508, 18038 Sanremo (IM), Italy.
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bobbio
authors.affiliation: CRA-Unità di Ricerca per la Floricoltura e le Specie Ornamentali, Corso Inglesi 508, 18038 Sanremo (IM), Italy.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Allavena
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D031883:Anemone / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology*; D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D060467:Disease Resistance / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods; D018506:Gene Expression Regulation, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D015723:Gene Library; D017343:Genes, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009181:Mycoses / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000382:microbiology; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D059467:Transcriptome / Q000235:genetics*; D015854:Up-Regulation / Q000235:genetics