ArticlePlanta2009
Defense-related gene expression and enzyme activities in transgenic cotton plants expressing an endochitinase gene from Trichoderma virens in response to interaction with Rhizoctonia solani.
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- Enhanced resistance to sclerotinia stem rot in transgenic soybean that overexpresses a wheat oxalate oxidase.Transgenic research · 2019Article
- HyPRP1 performs a role in negatively regulating cotton resistance to V. dahliae via the thickening of cell walls and ROS accumulation.BMC plant biology · 2018Article
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- The wheat NB-LRR gene TaRCR1 is required for host defence response to the necrotrophic fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia cerealis.Plant biotechnology journal · 2017Article
- De Novo Assembly, Annotation, and Characterization of Root Transcriptomes of Three Caladium Cultivars with a Focus on Necrotrophic Pathogen Resistance/Defense-Related Genes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Article
- Root morphogenic pathways in Eucalyptus grandis are modified by the activity of protein arginine methyltransferases.BMC plant biology · 2017Article
- Enhanced resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Brassica napus by co-expression of defensin and chimeric chitinase genes.Journal of applied genetics · 2016Article
- Co-overexpression of Brassica juncea NPR1 (BjNPR1) and Trigonella foenum-graecum defensin (Tfgd) in transgenic peanut provides comprehensive but varied protection against Aspergillus flavus and Cercospora arachidicola.Plant cell reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
There are many reports on obtaining disease-resistance trait in plants by overexpressing genes from diverse organisms that encode chitinolytic enzymes. Current study represents an attempt to dissect the mechanism underlying the resistance to Rhizoctonia solani in cotton plants expressing an endochitinase gene from Trichoderma virens. Several assays were developed that provided a powerful demonstration of the disease protection obtained in the transgenic cotton plants. Transgene-dependent endochitinase activity was confirmed in various tissues and in the medium surrounding the roots of transformants. Biochemical and molecular analyses conducted on the transgenic plants showed rapid/greater induction of ROS, expression of several defense-related genes, and activation of some PR enzymes and the terpenoid pathway. Interestingly, even in the absence of a challenge from the pathogen, the basal activities of some of the defense-related genes and enzymes were higher in the endochitinase-expressing cotton plants. This elevated defensive state of the transformants may act synergistically with the potent, transgene-encoded endochitinase activity to confer a strong resistance to R. solani infection.
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