January
2011
, Volume
24
, Number
1
Pages
143
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153
Authors
Ludivine Lassois,1
Patrick Frettinger,2
Luc de Lapeyre de Bellaire,3,4
Philippe Lepoivre,1 and
Haissam Jijakli1
Affiliations
1University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Plant Pathology Unit. Passage des Déportés 2, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium; 2Unité Mixte de Recherches INRA-CNRS-Université de Bourgogne, Plante-Microbe Environnement, INRA, 17 Rue Sully, BP 86510, 21065 Dijon cedex, France; 3CIRAD, Persyst, UPR Syst. Banan. Ananas, TA B-26 / PS4, Blvd. de la Lironde, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; 4CARBAP, African Center for Research on Bananas and Plantains, Nyombé, Cameroon
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Accepted 25 August 2010.
Abstract
Variations in banana susceptibility to crown rot disease have been observed but the molecular mechanisms underlying these quantitative host–pathogen relationships are still unknown. This study was designed to compare gene expression between crowns of banana fruit showing a high susceptibility (S+) and crowns showing a low susceptibility (S–) to the disease. Comparisons were performed at two situation times: i) between crowns (S+ and S–) collected 1 h before inoculation and ii) between crowns (S+ and S–) collected 13 days after inoculation. Gene expression comparisons were performed with cDNA-amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and results were confirmed by real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction. Among genes identified as differentially expressed between S+ and S– crowns, two were involved in signal transduction, three in proteolytic machinery, two had similarity to pathogenesis-related protein 14, one to a CCR4-associated factor protein, and one to a cellulose synthase. Paradoxically, the overexpression of the cellulose synthase gene was associated with banana showing a high susceptibility in both pre- and post-inoculation situations. Finally, the cDNA-AFLP identified a gene that seems to be associated with the quantitative banana responses to crown rot disease; this gene encodes a dopamine-β-monooxygenase, which is involved in the catecholamine pathway. To our knowledge, this work is the first to address both pre- and post-infection gene expression with the same host–pathogen combination and distinct susceptibility levels.
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This article is in the public domain and not copyrightable. It may be freely reprinted with customary crediting of the source. The American Phytopathological Society, 2011.