Journal
VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v13050741
Keywords
Tobacco etch virus; Capsicum annuum; pepper; RNA-sequencing; transcriptome
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- Multistate HATCH grant [103624-3045342055]
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Through transcriptomic RNA sequencing, distinct profiles of Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) were identified for each TEV strain in infected pepper plants. The number of DEGs increased with the severity of disease symptoms, and the DEG patterns from 7 to 14 days post-inoculation corresponded to the severity of disease. Surprisingly, there were very few overlapping DEGs among the TEV strains, with no overlapping DEGs between all three strains at 7 or 14 days post-inoculation.
Tobacco etch virus (TEV; genus Potyvirus) is flexuous rod shaped with a single molecule of single-stranded RNA and causes serious yield losses in species in the Solanaceae. Three TEV strains (HAT, Mex21, and N) are genetically distinct and cause different disease symptoms in plants. Here, a transcriptomic RNA sequencing approach was taken for each TEV strain to evaluate gene expression of the apical stem segment of pepper plants during two stages of disease development. Distinct profiles of Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) were identified for each TEV strain. DEG numbers increased with degree of symptom severity: 24 from HAT, 1190 from Mex21, and 4010 from N. At 7 days post-inoculation (dpi), when systemic symptoms were similar, there were few DEGs for HAT- and Mex21-infected plants, whereas N-infected plants had 2516 DEGs. DEG patterns from 7 to 14 dpi corresponded to severity of disease symptoms: milder disease with smaller DEG changes for HAT and Mex21 and severe disease with larger DEG changes for N. Strikingly, in each of these comparisons, there are very few overlapping DEGs among the TEV strains, including no overlapping DEGs between all three strains at 7 or 14 dpi.
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