Infection of Isolates on .

, a hemibiotrophic oomycete, causes diseases in several economically important tropical crops, such as oil palm, which it is responsible for a devastating disease called bud rot (BR). Despite recent progress in understanding host resistance and virulence mechanisms, many aspects remain unknown in isolates from oil palm. Model pathosystems are useful for understanding the molecular interactions between pathogens and hosts.

The Dynamic Interaction between Oil Palm and in Bud Rot Disease: Insights from Transcriptomic Analysis and Network Modelling.

Bud Rot, caused by , is considered one of the main diseases affecting African oil palm (). In this study, we investigated the in vitro molecular dynamics of the pathogen-host interaction by analyzing gene expression profiles from oil palm genotypes that were either susceptible or resistant to the disease. We observed distinct interactions of with resistant and susceptible oil palms through co-expression network analysis.