title: 'Omics' and Plant Responses toBotrytis cinerea.
abstract: Botrytis cinereais a dangerous plant pathogenic fungus with wide host ranges. This aggressive pathogen uses multiple weapons to invade and cause serious damages on its host plants. The continuing efforts of how to solve the "puzzle" of the multigenic nature ofB. cinerea's pathogenesis and plant defense mechanisms against the disease caused by this mold, the integration of omic approaches, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics, along with functional analysis could be a potential solution. Omic studies will provide a foundation for development of genetic manipulation and breeding programs that will eventually lead to crop improvement and protection. In this mini-review, we will highlight the current progresses in research in plant stress responses toB. cinereausing high-throughput omic technologies. We also discuss the opportunities that omic technologies can provide to research onB. cinerea-plant interactions as an example showing the impacts of omics on agricultural research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, United Arab Emirates University Al Ain, UAE.
authors.forename: Synan F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: AbuQamar
authors.affiliation: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Paris, France.
authors.forename: Khaled
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Moustafa
authors.affiliation: Plant Abiotic Stress Research Group & Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ton Duc Thang UniversityHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ScienceYokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Lam Son P
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Tran
keywords: Arabidopsis; Botrytis cinerea; biotic stress; metabolomics; omics; proteomics; transcriptomics