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- Plant antifungal proteins, particularly the pathogenesis-related (PR)-5 family, are crucial for plant defense, but research on garlic's thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs) is limited.
- A study identified 32 TLP homologs in garlic's cv. Ershuizao genome, indicating their potential role in combating soil fungi.
- Analysis of gene expression revealed that TLP genes were regulated differently between resistant and susceptible garlic cultivars during fungal infection, providing insights for breeding more resilient garlic varieties.
Article Abstract
Plant antifungal proteins include the pathogenesis-related (PR)-5 family of fungi- and other stress-responsive thaumatin-like proteins (TLPs). However, the information on the TLPs of garlic ( L.), which is often infected with soil fungi, is very limited. In the present study, we identified 32 homologs in the cv. Ershuizao genome, which may function in the defense against attack. The promoters of () genes contained -acting elements associated with hormone signaling and response to various types of stress, including those caused by fungal pathogens and their elicitors. The expression of genes in -resistant and -susceptible garlic cultivars was differently regulated by infection. Thus, in the roots the mRNA levels of and genes were increased in resistant and decreased in susceptible cultivars, suggesting the involvement of these genes in the garlic response to . attack. Our results provide insights into the role of TLPs in garlic and may be useful for breeding programs to increase the resistance of crops to infections.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8949454 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11060748 | DOI Listing |
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