Glycine max infected with Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea (Psg) (race 4) Raw sequence reads
Climate change poses a significant threat to both the environment and agriculture, generating global concern. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the primary contributors to climate change, has significantly increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Shifts in environmental conditions, such as elevated atmospheric CO2 (eCO2), are likely to impact interactions between plants and microbial pathogens. Soybean (Glycine max), the most widely planted dicot seed crop globally, is a major source of protein and oil and is susceptible to numerous economically important pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, viruses, and nematodes. We conducted a transcriptomic analysis of soybeans grown at two different CO2 concentrations: 419 ppm, representing current atmospheric conditions, or 550 ppm, representing predicted atmospheric conditions in the year 2050, in the presence and absence of Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea (Psg) infection to gain a global understanding of how atmospheric CO2 levels affect interactions in this pathosystem.