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PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 304, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2021.110820
Keywords
NAC transcription factor; Wheat NILs; Fusarium head blight; VIGS; Metabolomics; Lignification; Disease resistance
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI)
- Ministere de l'Agriculture, des Pecheries et de l'Alimentation du Qu ebec (MAPAQ), Quebec, Canada
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The NAC transcription factor TaNAC032 plays a crucial role in the resistance of wheat to Fusarium head blight, with silencing of TaNAC032 leading to decreased levels of resistance-related metabolites. This study suggests a potential gene editing strategy for enhancing FHB resistance in susceptible cultivars through manipulation of TaNAC032.
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a destructive disease affecting cereal crops globally due to mycotoxin contamination of grains that reduce yield and quality. Among hundreds of QTLs identified for resistance, the QTL-Fhb1 is of significant interest even today, for its major contribution to FHB resistance. Previously, QTL-Fhb1 dissection based on a combined metabolo-genomics approach, identified a few potential resistance genes, including a NAC like transcription factor for FHB resistance. Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis confirmed NAC to be the wheat TaNAC032. Also, the quantitative RT-PCR studies revealed a greater induced expression of TaNAC032 in resistant NIL in comparison to susceptible NIL upon Fusarium graminearum (Fg) infection. The virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) based functional validation of TaNAC032 in resistant NIL confirmed increased disease severity and fungal biomass. Metabolic profiling revealed low abundances of resistance-related (RR) metabolites in TaNAC032 silenced NIL-R compared to non-silenced. Silenced plants showed decreased transcript abundances of RR metabolite biosynthetic genes associated with a reduction in total lignin content in rachis, confirming the regulatory role of TaNAC032 in wheat in response to Fg infection. If TaNA032 is mutated in an FHB susceptible cultivar, it can be edited to enhance FHB resistance.
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