Early defoliation,which usually occurs during summer in pear trees,is gradually becoming a major problem that poses a serious threat to the pear industry in southern China.However,there is no system for evaluating the...Early defoliation,which usually occurs during summer in pear trees,is gradually becoming a major problem that poses a serious threat to the pear industry in southern China.However,there is no system for evaluating the responses of different cultivars to early defoliation,and our knowledge of the potential molecular regulation of the genes underlying this phenomenon is still limited.In this study,we conducted field investigations of 155 pear accessions to assess their resistance or susceptibility to early defoliation.A total of 126 accessions were found to be susceptible to early defoliation,and only 29 accessions were resistant.Among them,19 resistant accessions belong to the sand pear species(Pyrus pyrifolia).To identify the resistance genes related to early defoliation,the healthy and diseased samples of two sand pear accessions,namely,the resistant early defoliation accession‘Whasan’and the susceptible early defoliation accession‘Cuiguan’,were used to perform RNA sequencing.Compared with‘Cuiguan’,a total of 444 genes were uniquely differentially expressed in‘Whasan’.Combined with GO and KEGG enrichment analyses,we found that early defoliation was closely related to the stress response.Furthermore,a weighted gene co-expression network analysis revealed a high correlation of WRKY and ethylene responsive factor(ERF)transcription factors with early defoliation resistance.This study provides useful resistant germplasm resources and new insights into potentially essential genes that respond to early defoliation in pears,which may facilitate a better understanding of the resistance mechanism and molecular breeding of resistant pear cultivars.展开更多
Fusarium wilt and Verticillium wilt are important worldwide fungal diseases on cotton that cause damage to yield and quality.The pathogens survive in soil as microsclerotia for many years,and
The cereal cyst nematode,Heterodera avenae,is one of the most economically important pathogens impacting the worldwide production of cereals and is widely distributed in more than 16 regions in China.The present study...The cereal cyst nematode,Heterodera avenae,is one of the most economically important pathogens impacting the worldwide production of cereals and is widely distributed in more than 16 regions in China.The present study used the numbers of nematodes inside the plant roots to evaluate the resistance/susceptibility of different subpopulations of barley Hordeum vulgare(QH2R,QH6R and TB2R)to H.avenae under field and pot conditions.Nematode development in two highly resistant varieties was also evaluated by in vivo experiment and microscopic observation.Analyses of 186selected varieties showed the numbers of susceptible varieties identified with the number of females/cysts per plant(NFP)method were significantly higher than those identified with the Pf/Pi ratio(PPR)method,which indicated that the NFP method rather than the PPR method is more reliable to evaluate the resistance of barley.The field and pot experiment results indicated that the QH2R subpopulation had lower females/cysts numbers than QH6R and TB2R subpopulations,and eight HR varieties(Sunong 7617,Sunong 7635,Dongyuan 87-14,Rudong 14-46,Rudong 87-57,Rudong 87-8-45,Rudong 88-14-2,and Rudong 88-67-1)were identified in QH2R,with the NFP numbers below 4.2.Further microscopic observation of nematode development suggested that H.avenae often penetrated less into highly resistant varieties(Sunong 7635 and Dongyuan 87-14)and more frequently failed to develop into females than the susceptible barleys.The promising resistant varieties identified in the present research might be helpful for breeders to develop CCN-resistant cultivars and control H.avenae populations effectively at low costs.展开更多
基金supported by the earmarked fund for Jiangsu Agricultural Industry Technology System,China(JATS[2021]453)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFD1200200)the earmarked fund for China Agriculture Research System(CARS-28).
文摘Early defoliation,which usually occurs during summer in pear trees,is gradually becoming a major problem that poses a serious threat to the pear industry in southern China.However,there is no system for evaluating the responses of different cultivars to early defoliation,and our knowledge of the potential molecular regulation of the genes underlying this phenomenon is still limited.In this study,we conducted field investigations of 155 pear accessions to assess their resistance or susceptibility to early defoliation.A total of 126 accessions were found to be susceptible to early defoliation,and only 29 accessions were resistant.Among them,19 resistant accessions belong to the sand pear species(Pyrus pyrifolia).To identify the resistance genes related to early defoliation,the healthy and diseased samples of two sand pear accessions,namely,the resistant early defoliation accession‘Whasan’and the susceptible early defoliation accession‘Cuiguan’,were used to perform RNA sequencing.Compared with‘Cuiguan’,a total of 444 genes were uniquely differentially expressed in‘Whasan’.Combined with GO and KEGG enrichment analyses,we found that early defoliation was closely related to the stress response.Furthermore,a weighted gene co-expression network analysis revealed a high correlation of WRKY and ethylene responsive factor(ERF)transcription factors with early defoliation resistance.This study provides useful resistant germplasm resources and new insights into potentially essential genes that respond to early defoliation in pears,which may facilitate a better understanding of the resistance mechanism and molecular breeding of resistant pear cultivars.
文摘Fusarium wilt and Verticillium wilt are important worldwide fungal diseases on cotton that cause damage to yield and quality.The pathogens survive in soil as microsclerotia for many years,and
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31772142 and 31972248)the Special Fund for Agro-Scientific Research in the Public Interest,China(201503114)the National Key Research and Development Program,China(2018YFD0201202)。
文摘The cereal cyst nematode,Heterodera avenae,is one of the most economically important pathogens impacting the worldwide production of cereals and is widely distributed in more than 16 regions in China.The present study used the numbers of nematodes inside the plant roots to evaluate the resistance/susceptibility of different subpopulations of barley Hordeum vulgare(QH2R,QH6R and TB2R)to H.avenae under field and pot conditions.Nematode development in two highly resistant varieties was also evaluated by in vivo experiment and microscopic observation.Analyses of 186selected varieties showed the numbers of susceptible varieties identified with the number of females/cysts per plant(NFP)method were significantly higher than those identified with the Pf/Pi ratio(PPR)method,which indicated that the NFP method rather than the PPR method is more reliable to evaluate the resistance of barley.The field and pot experiment results indicated that the QH2R subpopulation had lower females/cysts numbers than QH6R and TB2R subpopulations,and eight HR varieties(Sunong 7617,Sunong 7635,Dongyuan 87-14,Rudong 14-46,Rudong 87-57,Rudong 87-8-45,Rudong 88-14-2,and Rudong 88-67-1)were identified in QH2R,with the NFP numbers below 4.2.Further microscopic observation of nematode development suggested that H.avenae often penetrated less into highly resistant varieties(Sunong 7635 and Dongyuan 87-14)and more frequently failed to develop into females than the susceptible barleys.The promising resistant varieties identified in the present research might be helpful for breeders to develop CCN-resistant cultivars and control H.avenae populations effectively at low costs.
