Periwinkle is a promising host surrogate for 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas) studies, but there is little information available for their interactions.  Therefore, the longitudinal transcriptomic and small RNA analyses of periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) through dodder (Cuscuta campestris)-mediated infection with CLas was carried out.
healthy periwinkle plants not parasitic with dodder