Pathogen Genetic Control of Transcriptome Variation in the Arabidopsis thaliana – Botrytis cinerea Pathosystem

Autor: Daniel J. Kliebenstein, Nicole E. Soltis, Jason A. Corwin, Celine Caseys, Wei Zhang, Susanna Atwell
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Arabidopsis
Genome
01 natural sciences
Botrytis cinerea
Pathosystem
Arabidopsis thaliana
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors
2.2 Factors relating to the physical environment
Aetiology
Pathogen
Regulation of gene expression
Genetics
0303 health sciences
biology
food and beverages
Fungal
pathosystem
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Botrytis
Genome
Fungal

Infection
Genome
Plant

Biotechnology
Host–pathogen interaction
Quantitative Trait Loci
RNA-sequencing
Virulence
dual transcriptome
Investigations
03 medical and health sciences
Genetic
Genetic variation
Polymorphism
Gene
030304 developmental biology
Host-pathogen interaction
Genetic diversity
Polymorphism
Genetic

fungi
Human Genome
Plant
biology.organism_classification
Expression quantitative trait loci
genome-wide association
Transcriptome
Genome-Wide Association Study
Developmental Biology
010606 plant biology & botany
Zdroj: Soltis, N E, Caseys, C, Zhang, W, Corwin, J A, Atwell, S & Kliebenstein, D J 2020, ' Pathogen Genetic Control of Transcriptome Variation in the Arabidopsis thaliana – Botrytis cinerea Pathosystem ', Genetics, vol. 215, no. 1, pp. 253-266 . https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.120.303070
Genetics, vol 215, iss 1
Genetics
ISSN: 1943-2631
Popis: Disease symptoms arise from the interaction of the host and pathogen genomes. However, little is known about how genetic variation in the interaction modulates both organisms’ transcriptomes, especially in complex interactions like those between generalist pathogens and their plant hosts. To begin mapping how polygenic pathogen variation influences both organisms’ transcriptomes, we used the Botrytis cinerea - Arabidopsis thaliana pathosystem. We measured the co-transcriptome across a genetically diverse collection of 96 B. cinerea isolates infected on the Arabidopsis wildtype, Col-0. Using the B. cinerea genomic variation, we performed genome-wide association (GWA) for each of 23,947 measurable transcripts in the host, and 9,267 measurable transcripts in the pathogen. Unlike other eGWA studies, there was a relative absence of cis-eQTL that is likely explained by structural variants and allelic heterogeneity within the pathogen’s genome. This analysis identified mostly trans-eQTL in the pathogen with eQTL hotspots dispersed across the pathogen genome that altered the pathogen’s transcripts, the host’s transcripts, or both the pathogen and the host. Gene membership in the trans-eQTL hotspots suggests links to several known and many novel virulence mechanisms in the plant-pathogen interaction. Genes annotated to these hotspots provide potential targets for blocking manipulation of the host response by this ubiquitous generalist pathogen. This shows that genetic control over the co-transcriptome is polygenic, similar to the virulence outcome in the interaction of Botrytis cinerea on Arabidopsis thaliana.
Databáze: OpenAIRE