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RNA silencing is required for Arabidopsis defence against Verticillium wilt disease
RNA silencing is a conserved mechanism in eukaryotes that plays an important role in various biological processes including regulation of gene expression. RNA silencing also plays a role in genome stability and protects plants against invading nucleic acids such as transgenes and viruses. Recently,...
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2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19098131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ern306 |
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author | Ellendorff, Ursula Fradin, Emilie F. de Jonge, Ronnie Thomma, Bart P. H. J. |
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description | RNA silencing is a conserved mechanism in eukaryotes that plays an important role in various biological processes including regulation of gene expression. RNA silencing also plays a role in genome stability and protects plants against invading nucleic acids such as transgenes and viruses. Recently, RNA silencing has been found to play a role in defence against bacterial plant pathogens in Arabidopsis through modulating host defence responses. In this study, it is shown that gene silencing plays a role in plant defence against multicellular microbial pathogens; vascular fungi belonging to the Verticillium genus. Several components of RNA silencing pathways were tested, of which many were found to affect Verticillium defence. Remarkably, no altered defence towards other fungal pathogens that include Alternaria brassicicola, Botrytis cinerea, and Plectosphaerella cucumerina, but also the vascular pathogen Fusarium oxysporum, was recorded. Since the observed differences in Verticillium susceptibility cannot be explained by notable differences in root architecture, it is speculated that the gene silencing mechanisms affect regulation of Verticillium-specific defence responses. |
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spelling | pubmed-26514512009-04-02 RNA silencing is required for Arabidopsis defence against Verticillium wilt disease Ellendorff, Ursula Fradin, Emilie F. de Jonge, Ronnie Thomma, Bart P. H. J. J Exp Bot Research Papers RNA silencing is a conserved mechanism in eukaryotes that plays an important role in various biological processes including regulation of gene expression. RNA silencing also plays a role in genome stability and protects plants against invading nucleic acids such as transgenes and viruses. Recently, RNA silencing has been found to play a role in defence against bacterial plant pathogens in Arabidopsis through modulating host defence responses. In this study, it is shown that gene silencing plays a role in plant defence against multicellular microbial pathogens; vascular fungi belonging to the Verticillium genus. Several components of RNA silencing pathways were tested, of which many were found to affect Verticillium defence. Remarkably, no altered defence towards other fungal pathogens that include Alternaria brassicicola, Botrytis cinerea, and Plectosphaerella cucumerina, but also the vascular pathogen Fusarium oxysporum, was recorded. Since the observed differences in Verticillium susceptibility cannot be explained by notable differences in root architecture, it is speculated that the gene silencing mechanisms affect regulation of Verticillium-specific defence responses. Oxford University Press 2009-02 2008-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2651451/ /pubmed/19098131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ern306 Text en © 2008 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper is available online free of all access charges (see http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/open_access.html for further details) |
spellingShingle | Research Papers Ellendorff, Ursula Fradin, Emilie F. de Jonge, Ronnie Thomma, Bart P. H. J. RNA silencing is required for Arabidopsis defence against Verticillium wilt disease |
title | RNA silencing is required for Arabidopsis defence against Verticillium wilt disease |
title_full | RNA silencing is required for Arabidopsis defence against Verticillium wilt disease |
title_fullStr | RNA silencing is required for Arabidopsis defence against Verticillium wilt disease |
title_full_unstemmed | RNA silencing is required for Arabidopsis defence against Verticillium wilt disease |
title_short | RNA silencing is required for Arabidopsis defence against Verticillium wilt disease |
title_sort | rna silencing is required for arabidopsis defence against verticillium wilt disease |
topic | Research Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19098131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ern306 |
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