Estabelecimento de um patossistema modelo e análise da interação molecular planta-patógeno entre Eucalyptus grandis e Puccinia psidii Winter por meio da técnica de RNA-Seq. / Establishment of a model pathosystem and analysis of the molecular plant-pathogen interaction between Eucalyptus grandis and Puccinia psidii Winter

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

17/05/2012

RESUMO

More than 20 million hectares are destined to Eucalyptus plantations worldwide and Brazil has the second largest planted area. The International Eucalyptus Genome Network, EUCAGEN, was created in 2007 in order to perform genomic research on Eucalyptus. Brazil provided the biological material from the model tree (Brasuz) to have the complete genome sequenced and the first sequences were released to the scientific community in 2011. During Eucalyptus development, it is constantly exposed to pathogen attack with one of the most threatening diseases being eucalyptus rust caused by the neotropical rust fungus Puccinia psidii Winter which is rapidly spreading around the world and was recently described in Australia. In order to try and understand the molecular plant-microbe interaction between E. grandis and P. psidii we have to create a model system by isolating the pathogen from a single pustle and select resistant and susceptible plants from half-sib population generated using Brasuz as the pollen receptor. We performed light and epifluorescence microscopy analyses, identified all of the stages of the fungal development and recognized the moment which the resistant genotype blocks pathogen development. Based on these results we selected six time points to carry out transcriptomic analysis. Using RNA-Seq analysis we were able to verify large differences in transcriptional profile between resistant and susceptible plants and identify genes known involved in plant defense response such as LRR recptor Kinase, transcription factors (WRKY, MYBS and GRAS), TIR-NBS-LRR Proteins, Woundinduced protein and proteins involved in protein degradation (F-Box). Comparing microscopy and transcriptomic results allowed us to propose a model to explain the molecular mechanism of resistance of Eucalyptus grandis to Puccinia psidii.

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eucalyptus grandis eucalyptus grandis genetic mechanism of resistance histologia histology interação planta-patógeno mecanismo de resistência genética plant-pathogen interaction puccinia psidii puccinia psidii rnaseq rnaseq. transcriptômica transcriptomics

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