MicroRNAs Are Involved in Maize Immunity Against Fusarium verticillioides Ear Rot.

Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
Zijian ZhouHuiyong Zhang

Abstract

Fusarium ear rot (FER) caused by Fusarium verticillioides is one of the most common diseases affecting maize production worldwide. FER results in severe yield losses and grain contamination with health-threatening mycotoxins. Although most studies to date have focused on comprehensive analysis of gene regulation in maize during defense responses against F. verticillioides infection, less is known about the role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in this process. We used deep sequencing to compare small RNA libraries from the maize kernels of susceptible (N6) or resistant (BT-1) inbred lines from uninfected plants and upon F. verticillioides infection. We found that pathogen exposure was accompanied by dynamic alterations in expression levels of multiple miRNAs, including new members of previously annotated miRNA families. A combination of transcriptomic, degradomic, and bioinformatics analyses revealed that F. verticillioides-responsive miRNAs and their potential target genes displayed opposite expression patterns in the susceptible and resistant genotypes. Functional category analysis uncovered preferential enrichment of the pathogen-responsive miRNAs and their targets in the phenylpropanoid metabolic processes, plant-pathogen interactions...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
degradome sequencing
transgenic
electrophoresis
PCR

Software Mentioned

Rfam
psRNATarget
Randfold
miRDeep2
GOMO
Short Time - series Expression Miner ( STEM )
IDEG6
MEME suite
MAST
SOAP

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