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GENETICS
Volume 180, Issue 4, Pages 2237-2250Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.091439
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- University of California
- Davis Department of Plant Sciences
- Henry A.Jastro and Peter J. Shields Research Scholarship
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The genetic architecture of plant. defense against microbial pathogens may be influenced by pathogen lifestyle. While plant interactions with biotrophic pathogens are frequently controlled by the action of large-effect resistance genes that follow classic Mendelian inheritance, our study suggests that plant defense against the necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea is primarily quantitative and genetically complex. Few studies of quantitative resistance to necrotrophic pathogens have used large plant mapping populations to dissect the genetic structure of resistance. Using a large structured mapping population of Arabidopsis thaliana, we identified quantitative trait loci influencing plant response to B. cinerea., measured as expansion of necrotic lesions oil leaves and accumulation of the antimicrobial compound camalexin. Testing multiple B. cinerea isolates, we identified 23 separate QTL in this population, ranging ill isolate-specificity from being identified with a single isolate to Controlling resistance against, all isolates tested. We identified a set. of QTL controlling accumulation of camalexin in response to pathogen infection that. largely colocalized with lesion QTL The identified resistance QTL appear to function in epistatic networks involving three or more loci. Detection of multilocus connections suggests that natural variation in specific signaling or response networks may control A. thaliana-B. cinerea interaction in this population.
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