MicroRNA regulated defense responses in Triticum aestivum L. during Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici infection.

Om Prakash Gupta, Vipin Permar, Vikas Koundal, Uday Dhari Singh, Shelly Praveen

Division of Biochemistry, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India.

Molecular biology reports 2012 Feb

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Plants have evolved diverse mechanism to recognize pathogen attack and triggers defense responses. These defense responses alter host cellular function regulated by endogenous, small, non-coding miRNAs. To understand the mechanism of miRNAs regulated cellular functions during stem rust infection in wheat, we investigated eight different miRNAs viz. miR159, miR164, miR167, miR171, miR444, miR408, miR1129 and miR1138, involved in three different independent cellular defense response to infection. The investigation reveals that at the initiation of disease, accumulation of miRNAs might be playing a key role in hypersensitive response (HR) from host, which diminishes at the maturation stage. This suggests a possible host-fungal synergistic relation leading to susceptibility. Differential expression of these miRNAs in presence and absence of R gene provides a probable explanation of miRNA regulated R gene mediated independent pathways.

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Om Prakash Gupta, Vipin Permar, Vikas Koundal, Uday Dhari Singh, Shelly Praveen. MicroRNA regulated defense responses in Triticum aestivum L. during Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici infection. Molecular biology reports. 2012 Feb;39(2):817-24