Abstract
The dominant barley stem rust resistance gene Rpg1 confers resistance to many but not all pathotypes of the stem rust fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt). Transformat ion of Rpg1 into susceptible cultivar Golden Promise rendered the transgenic plants resistant to Pgt pathotype MCC but not to Pgt pathotype QCC. Our objective was to identify genes that are induced/repressed during the early stages of pathogen infection to elucidate the molecular mechanisms and role of Rpg1 in defense. A messenger ribonucleic acid expression analysis using the 22K Barley1 GeneChip was conducted in all pair-wise combinations of two isolines (cv. Golden Promise and Rpg1 transgenic line G02-448F-3R) and two Pgt pathotypes (MCC and QCC) across six time points. Analysis showed that a total of 34 probe sets exhibited expression pattern differences between Golden Promise (susceptible) and G02-448F-3R (resistant) infected with Pgt -MCC. A total of 14 probe sets exhibited expression pattern differences between Pgt -MCC (avirulent) and Pgt-QCC (virulent) inoculated onto G02-448F-3R. These differentially expressed genes were activated during the early infection process, before the hypersensitive response or fungal growth inhibition occurred. Our analysis provides a list of candidate signaling components, which can be analyzed for function in Rpg1-mediated disease resistance.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 187-198 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Functional and Integrative Genomics |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments This is Scientific Paper no. 0701-07 from the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Sciences Research Center, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, Project 0196. The research was supported by the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service grant number no. 2004-35301-14635.
Keywords
- Barley
- Disease-resistance
- Expression profiling
- Microarray data
- Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici
- Rust resistance