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Reference Gene Selection and Validation for the Early Responses to Downy Mildew Infection in Susceptible and Resistant Vitis vinifera Cultivars

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PLOS ONE
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072998

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  1. Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [PTDC/AGR-GPC/119753/2010, SFRH/BPD/25661/2005, SFRH/BPD/63641/2009, BIOFIG PEst-OE/BIA/UI4046/2011]
  2. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/25661/2005, SFRH/BPD/63641/2009] Funding Source: FCT

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The pivotal role of cultivated grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) in many countries economy is compromised by its high susceptibility to Plasmopara viticola, the causal agent of downy mildew disease. Recent research has identified a set of genes related to resistance which may be used to track downy mildew infection. Quantification of the expression of these resistance genes requires normalizing qPCR data using reference genes with stable expression in the system studied. In this study, a set of eleven genes (VATP16, 60 S, UQCC, SMD3, EF1 alpha, UBQ, SAND, GAPDH, ACT, PsaB, PTB2) was evaluated to identify reference genes during the first hours of interaction (6, 12, 18 and 24 hpi) between two V. vinifera genotypes and P. viticola. Two analyses were used for the selection of reference genes: direct comparison of susceptible, Trincadeira, and resistant, Regent, V. vinifera cultivars at 0 h, 6, 12, 18 and 24 hours post inoculation with P. viticola (genotype effect); and comparison of each genotype with mock inoculated samples during inoculation time-course (biotic stress effect). Three statistical methods were used, GeNorm, NormFinder, and BestKeeper, allowing to identify UBQ, EF1 alpha and GAPDH as the most stable genes for the genotype effect. For the biotic stress effect, EF1a, SAND and SMD3 were the most constant for the susceptible cultivar Trincadeira and EF1 alpha, GAPDH, UBQ for the resistant cultivar Regent. In addition, the expression of three defense-related transcripts, encoding for subtilisin-like protein, CYP and PR10, was analysed, for both datasets, during inoculation time-course. Taken together, our results provide guidelines for reference gene(s) selection towards a more accurate and widespread use of qPCR to study the first hours of interaction between different grapevine cultivars and P. viticola.

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