Sugar beet responses to the pathogenic oomycete Aphanomyces cochlioides
The aim is to analyse the transcriptomic profile of sugar beet during the early stages of infection with the pathogen A. cochlioides. Partially resistant and susceptible sugar beet breeding lines were inoculated with three A. cochlioides isolates with different geographical origins, with the ultimate goal being identify genes that play a major role in the defense responses.