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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 67, Issue 14, Pages 4127-4139Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw187
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Cuticle reinforcement; free fatty acids; Fusarium head blight; quantitative resistance; resistance-related metabolites; transcription factors
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- Ministere de l'Agriculture, des Pecheries et de l'Alimentation du Quebec (MAPAQ), Quebec, Canada
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WAX INDUCER1 (HvWIN1) transcription factor regulates cutin biosynthetic genes to reinforce cuticle to resist Fusarium head blight. CYP86A2, CYP89A2 and LACS2 are potential downstream targets of HvWIN1.Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium graminearum, is one of the most devastating diseases of wheat and barley. Resistance to FHB is highly complex and quantitative in nature, and is most often classified as resistance to spikelet infection and resistance to spread of pathogen through the rachis. In the present study, a resistant (CI9831) and a susceptible (H106-371) two-row barley genotypes, with contrasting levels of spikelet resistance to FHB, pathogen or mock-inoculated, were profiled for metabolites based on liquid chromatography and high resolution mass spectrometry. The key resistance-related (RR) metabolites belonging to fatty acids, phenylpropanoids, flavonoids and terpenoid biosynthetic pathways were identified. The free fatty acids (FFAs) linoleic and palmitic acids were among the highest fold change RR induced (RRI) metabolites. These FFAs are deposited as cutin monomers and oligomers to reinforce the cuticle, which acts as a barrier to pathogen entry. Quantitative real-time PCR studies revealed higher expressions of KAS2, CYP86A2, CYP89A2, LACS2 and WAX INDUCER1 (HvWIN1) transcription factor in the pathogen-inoculated resistant genotype than in the susceptible genotype. Knockdown of HvWIN1 by virus-induced genes silencing (VIGS) in resistant genotype upon pathogen inoculation increased the disease severity and fungal biomass, and decreased the abundance of FFAs like linoleic and palmitic acids. Notably, the expression of CYP86A2, CYP89A2 and LAC2 genes was also suppressed, proving the link of HvWIN1 in regulating these genes in cuticle biosynthesis as a defense response.
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