How do resistant banana roots respond to Fusarium?
Root transcriptomes differ between resistant and susceptible Cavendish bananas after Fusarium oxysporum TR4 infection.
Source
Transcriptome profiling of resistant and susceptible Cavendish banana roots following inoculation with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4
What they did
Compared Illumina transcriptomes of resistant vs susceptible Cavendish roots after Foc TR4 inoculation (resistance via somaclonal variation).
What they found
Large-scale expression differences accompany resistance vs susceptibility to Panama disease TR4.
The limits
What it doesn't show
Does not alone deliver a field-ready breeding gene list validated in all cultivars.
Key terms
- Fusarium wilt / Panama disease
- Destructive banana disease caused by Foc.
- Foc TR4
- Tropical race 4 of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense.
- Somaclonal variation
- Genetic variation arising in tissue culture.
- Cavendish banana
- Widely grown dessert banana group.
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Disease
Common questions
Pathogen?
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense TR4.
Tissue?
Roots.
Resistance source?
Somaclonal variation.
Method?
Transcriptome profiling.
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