Discovery of clubroot-resistant genes in Brassica napus by transcriptome sequencing

Genet Mol Res. 2016 Aug 12;15(3). doi: 10.4238/gmr.15038243.

Abstract

Clubroot significantly affects plants of the Brassicaceae family and is one of the main diseases causing serious losses in B. napus yield. Few studies have investigated the clubroot-resistance mechanism in B. napus. Identification of clubroot-resistant genes may be used in clubroot-resistant breeding, as well as to elucidate the molecular mechanism behind B. napus clubroot-resistance. We used three B. napus transcriptome samples to construct a transcriptome sequencing library by using Illumina HiSeq™ 2000 sequencing and bioinformatic analysis. In total, 171 million high-quality reads were obtained, containing 96,149 unigenes of N50-value. We aligned the obtained unigenes with the Nr, Swiss-Prot, clusters of orthologous groups, and gene ontology databases and annotated their functions. In the Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes database, 25,033 unigenes (26.04%) were assigned to 124 pathways. Many genes, including broad-spectrum disease-resistance genes, specific clubroot-resistant genes, and genes related to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) signal transduction, cytokinin synthesis, and myrosinase synthesis in the Huashuang 3 variety of B. napus were found to be related to clubroot-resistance. The effective clubroot-resistance observed in this variety may be due to the induced increased expression of these disease-resistant genes and strong inhibition of the IAA signal transduction, cytokinin synthesis, and myrosinase synthesis. The homology observed between unigenes 0048482, 0061770 and the Crr1 gene shared 94% nucleotide similarity. Furthermore, unigene 0061770 could have originated from an inversion of the Crr1 5'-end sequence.

MeSH terms

  • Base Sequence
  • Brassica napus / genetics*
  • Brassica napus / parasitology
  • Disease Resistance / genetics*
  • Gene Expression Profiling
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Plant
  • Gene Ontology
  • Genes, Plant
  • Host-Parasite Interactions
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation
  • Plant Diseases / genetics*
  • Plant Diseases / parasitology
  • Plant Roots / genetics
  • Plant Roots / parasitology
  • Plasmodiophorida / physiology
  • Sequence Analysis, RNA
  • Transcriptome