Université de Fribourg

Over-expression of a protein kinase gene enhances the defense of tobacco against Rhizoctonia solani

Chacón, Osmany ; González, Marleny ; López, Yunior ; Portieles, Roxana ; Pujol, Merardo ; González, Ernesto ; Schoonbeek, Henk-Jan ; Métraux, Jean-Pierre ; Borrás-Hidalgo, Orlando

In: Gene, 2010, vol. 45, no. 2, p. 54-62

To identify Nicotiana tabacum genes involved in resistance and susceptibility to Rhizoctonia solani, suppression subtractive hybridization was used to generate a cDNA library from transcripts that are differentially expressed during a compatible and incompatible interaction. This allowed the isolation of a protein kinase cDNA that was down-regulated during a compatible and up-regulated during an...