Investigating the role of strawberry cultivar, tissue-type and age in resistance to powdery mildew
Transcriptomic study to investigate differences in transcriptional response between resistant and susceptible strawberry plant material to powdery mildew. This study considered cultivar-based resistance, strawberry host-tissue based resistance and ontogenic resistance between young and old material. This allowed the intersection of unregulated genes across all three resistance types to identify conserved mechanisms of resistance to this important horticultural pathogen.