Transcriptomic and metabolomic profiling of the potato plant response to zebra chip disease
Margaret A. Carpenter, Tonya J. Frew, Helen L. Boldingh, Simona Nardozza, Martin L. Shaw, Susan J. Thomson, Rebecca D. Cooper, Gail M. Timmerman-Vaughan
TL;DR
This study investigates how potato plants respond to zebra chip disease using transcriptomic and metabolomic methods, revealing significant changes in tuber metabolism and nutritional content.
Contribution
The study provides new insights into the molecular and metabolic reprogramming of potato tubers caused by zebra chip disease.
Findings
Disease effects are most severe in tubers, with disrupted starch synthesis and increased glucose and fructose.
The phenylpropanoid pathway is more active in diseased tubers, leading to increased production of phenolic compounds.
Diseased tubers show reduced ascorbic acid and increased toxic glycoalkaloids, affecting nutritional value.
Abstract
Zebra chip disease of potato is caused by a bacterial pathogen, ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’, vectored by the tomato potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli Sulc.). The plant response to the disease was explored using a combined transcriptomic and metabolomic approach. The effects of the disease were greater in tuber than in leaf or stem tissues, and represent a massive reprogramming of the tuber metabolism, with expression changes observed for many genes. In the tuber, starch synthesis was severely disrupted, with reduced expression of most starch synthesis genes, but increased expression of the gene encoding vacuolar invertase. This was consistent with increased glucose and fructose and reduced starch in the tuber, which are the hallmarks of the disease and the causes of the symptoms problematic to the potato industry. The phenylpropanoid pathway was more active in diseased…
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TopicsPlant Pathogens and Resistance · Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics · Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases