Esophageal Gland RNA-Seq Resource of a Virulent and Avirulent Population of the Soybean Cyst Nematode Heterodera glycines

Maier, Tom; Masonbrink, Rick; Vijayapalani, Paramasivan; Gardner, Michael; Howland, Amanda D.; Mitchum, Melissa G.; Baum, Thomas

Esophageal Gland RNA-Seq Resource of a Virulent and Avirulent Population of the Soybean Cyst Nematode Heterodera glycines

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Date

2021-09

Authors

Maier, Tom

Masonbrink, Rick

Vijayapalani, Paramasivan

Gardner, Michael

Howland, Amanda D.

Mitchum, Melissa G.

Baum, Thomas

Publisher

American Phytopathological Society

Abstract

The soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines is the most economically devastating pathogen of soybean in the United States and threatens to become even more damaging through the selection of virulent nematode populations in the field that can overcome natural resistance mechanisms in soybean cultivars. This pathogen, therefore, demands intense transcriptomic/genomic research inquiries into the biology of its parasitic mechanisms. H. glycines delivers effector proteins that are produced in specialized gland cells into the soybean root to enable infection. The study of effector proteins, thus, is particularly promising when exploring novel management options against this pathogen. Here, we announce the availability of a gland cell–specific RNA-seq resource. These data represent an expression snapshot of gland cell activity during early soybean infection of a virulent and an avirulent H. glycines population, providing a unique and highly valuable resource for scientists examining effector biology and nematode virulence.

Academic or Administrative Unit

Plant Pathology and Microbiology

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article

Comments

This article published is as Maier, Tom R., Rick E. Masonbrink, Paramasivan Vijayapalani, Michael Gardner, Amanda D. Howland, Melissa G. Mitchum, and Thomas J. Baum. "Esophageal Gland RNA-Seq Resource of a Virulent and Avirulent Population of the Soybean Cyst Nematode Heterodera glycines." Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 34, no. 9 (2021): 1084-1087. DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-03-21-0051-A. Copyright 2021 The Author(s). Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Posted with permission.