Journal
SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE
Volume 278, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2020.109845
Keywords
PSTVd; Pathogenicity; microRNAs; Pepper cultivars
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- Bulgarian National Science Fund [DN06/6]
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PSTVd is a small pathogenic RNA infecting plants, with its pathogenicity influenced by the viroid strain's characteristics, host genomic traits, and interactions in a dynamic environment. Research on pepper cultivars shows specific miRNA expression differences upon PSTVd infection, advancing our understanding of the role of miRNAs in the PSTVd-pepper pathosystem.
Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) is one of the smallest pathogenic RNAs infecting plants. It harbors a circular single-stranded RNA genome, which, owing to its considerable self-complementarity, can adopt a specific rodshaped secondary structure. PSTVd pathogenicity is a complex phenomenon mediated by the sequence- and structure-specific characteristics of the viroid strain, host species-specific genomic traits, and interactions between PSTVd and its host in a dynamic environment. Viroid-responsive miRNAs and their potential role as regulatory determinants in the pathogenicity of PSTVd have been studied in two Bulgarian pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivars: Djulunska shipka (DS) and Kurtovska kapia (KK). In these cultivars, conserved miRNAs such as can-miR397, can-miR398, can-miR408, and can-miR482 display cultivar-specific expression upon PSTVd infection at 28 days post-inoculation (dpi), as shown by sRNA-seq and validated by RT-qPCR. Unlike in KK, the level of can-miR397a-5p was significantly reduced in PSTVd-infected DS, and the expression of its corresponding target gene, Laccase-like 4, was proportionately upregulated at 43 dpi, suggesting that this miRNA/mRNA circuit is implicated in the susceptibility of DS to PSTVd. These results advance our understanding of the cultivar-specific regulation of miRNAs associated with PSTVd response in pepper, and extend the functional role of miRNAs in regulatory networks that operate in the PSTVd-pepper pathosystem.
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