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Genomics of the grapevine - pathogen interactions: Botrytis cinerea virulence factors & molecular mechanisms of induced resistance
Molecular mechanisms of fungal infection and grapevine defense reactions remain largely unknown. Genomes of Botrytis cinerea and Vitis vinifera have been sequenced and the newly available genomic tools offer the opportunity to get for the first time an integrated view of the physiology of the interaction that is ongoing between this plant and one of its major microbial pathogen. We hypothesize that a comprehensive kinetic description of the transcriptome of both B. cinerea pathogen and of its plant host will answer important questions regarding fungal virulence factors and plant defense. The molecular physiology of the infection process will be investigated from both the plant and pathogen sides. Identical biological samples will be used for all the analyses and results will be compared and integrated. Altogether, the resulting data will provide the first integrated view on the physiology of grapevine infection by a biotroph and a necrotroph pathogen, and should provide new insights on the mechanisms involved in the infection process. A such approach has never been carried out before in grapevine.
Duration: 01/01/2009 to 31/12/2011
Coordinator: Muriel Viaud
- INRA UMR1290 BIOGER-CPP, Thiverval Grignon, France (Muriel Viaud)
- CNRS-UCB-INS-Bayer CropScience UMR5240, Lyon, France (Michel Droux)
- INRA 1088 – CNRS 5184 UMR Plante Microbe Environnement, Université Bourgogne, Dijon, France (Benoit Poinssot)
- UR Vignes et Vins de Champagne – Stress et Environnement, Université de Reims, France (Fabienne Baillieul)
- INRA UR1164 URGI, Versailles, France (Joelle Amselem)
Project funded by ANR (axis "plant genomics")
Creation date: 27 Apr 2010
eZ PublishPublication supervisor: A-F. Adam-Blondon
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