DIFFERENTIAL GENE TRANSCRIPT ACCUMULATION IN BARLEY LEAF EPIDERMIS AND MESOPHYLL IN RESPONSE TO ATTACK BY BLUMERIA-GRAMINIS F-SP HORDEI (SYN. ERYSIPHE-GRAMINIS F-SP HORDEI)
Pl. Gregersen et al., DIFFERENTIAL GENE TRANSCRIPT ACCUMULATION IN BARLEY LEAF EPIDERMIS AND MESOPHYLL IN RESPONSE TO ATTACK BY BLUMERIA-GRAMINIS F-SP HORDEI (SYN. ERYSIPHE-GRAMINIS F-SP HORDEI), Physiological and molecular plant pathology, 51(2), 1997, pp. 85-97
A number of barley cDNAs isolated by differential screening represent
gene transcripts which accumulate during fungal pathogen attack. The e
ncoded proteins comprise species commonly encountered in plant-pathoge
n interactions, e.g. PR proteins, but also protein species not previou
sly reported from plant-pathogen interactions: a novel flavonoid O-met
hyltransferase, a 14-3-3 protein, an endoplasmatic chaperone (GRP94),
an oxalate oxidase, an oxalate oxidase-like protein, and some species
with no known homologues. One of these latter sequences BH72-Q3, encod
ing a small proline-rich protein, is presented here. Transcripts of 15
gene families accumulated in the leaves following inoculation with Bl
umeria graminis f.sp. hordei (syn. Erysiphe graminis Esp. hordei) in b
oth compatible and incompatible interactions. During the first 24 h af
ter inoculation no clear differences were observed among different int
eraction types. At later stages transcript accumulation reflected the
different infection types, with strong late accumulation in compatible
interactions, a somewhat earlier accumulation in an incompatible mult
i-cell HR interaction, and only weak accumulation in an incompatible s
ingle cell HR interaction. Experiments using isolated epidermal strips
and the residual mesophyll material showed that the oxalate oxidase-l
ike gene transcript accumulated exclusively in the epidermis, whereas
the 14-3-3, GRP94, and BH6-12 transcripts accumulated in both epidermi
s and mesophyll. All other gene transcripts appeared to accumulate pre
ferentially in the mesophyll cells, however, with increased epidermal
accumulation late after inoculation. The exception is the oxalate oxid
ase transcript, which accumulated exclusively in the mesophyll. The re
sponse of the barley plant to attack by the mildew fungus thus appears
to consist of a complex of interconnected reactions in the epidermis
and the underlying mesophyll cells. (C) 1997 Academic Press Limited.