Screen of Pinus massoniana for Resistance to Pinewood Nematode: In Vitro Propagation and Evaluation of Regenerated Microshoots

Guo, Jianrong; Zhu, Zihui; Chen, You-Mei; Zhu, Li‐Hua

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“…In recent years, a number of PWD resistant cultivars have been developed domestically and internationally, such as GD5, DAC12, and AH1 (Deng et al, 2024; Gao et al, 2024). Foreign cultivars such as Clone number 227, Tanabe 54, and Tosashimizu 63 have also exhibited PWD resistance (Hirao et al, 2019; Guo et al, 2023). However, the above cultivars were naturally selected, and their effectiveness in the field is unstable.…”

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The molecular basis of pine wilt disease resistance inPinus massoniana

Wang,

Cai,

Zeng

et al. 2024

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Pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the pine wood nematode (PWN)Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, results in significant economic and ecological damage toPinusforests and plantations worldwide.Pinus massonianais the primary host of PWD in southern China, but its response to the PWN remains largely unstudied. Previously, we observed PWD in aP. massoniananursery that contained over 71 commonly used cultivars. Through field phenotyping, we identified two groups of PWN resistant cultivars. Resistant cultivars (RC) exhibited very low PWN carrying amounts (PCA) and had relatively low mortality, and tolerant cultivars (TC) had high PCA but low mortality. In this study, we confirmed via PWN inoculation assays that the resistant and tolerant cultivars had lower mortality rates, 10% and 11%, respectively, than other cultivars (which had a mortality rate of 83.3%). The RC had a PCA that was significantly lower than that of other cultivars, while the TC exhibited a higher PCA. To explore the molecular mechanisms underlying the response ofP. massonianato PWN, the transcriptome and metabolome of the above cultivars were profiled by high throughput sequencing. As no reference genome is available forP. massoniana, we generated a new full-length transcriptome library with iso-seq. Using the transcriptome and metabolome from differentP. massonianacultivars inoculated with PWN, we found three major PWD resistance strategies. 1) The common response strategy involved three important molecular pathways. First, synthesis of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and abcisic acid (ABA) were suppressed during PWN invasion, thus suppressing the synthesis of polysaccharides (especially myo-inositol and trehalose) and (-)-riboflavin through ABC transporters. Second, by inhibiting aspartic acid, the synthesis of arginine and proline through APS5 (aspartate aminotransferase 5) were suppressed. Third, by reducing cysteine, GERD (germacrene D synthase) was up-regulated, and sesquiterpenoid and triterpenoid metabolites were accumulated to resist PWN invasion. 2) The most effective resistance strategy involved the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which enhanced jasmonic acid (JA) accumulation and highly induced the expression of chitinase, thus improving resistance to PWN. 3) The tolerance strategy involved the induction of phosphatidylcholine, which promoted flavonoid and anthocyanin synthesis via LPIN (phosphatidate phosphatase), LOX2S (lipoxygenase), and LOX1_5 (linoleate 9S-lipoxygenase), thus significantly inhibiting the pathogenicity of the PWN but not the PCA. These results illustrate the molecular mechanisms by whichP. massonianacultivars resist or tolerate PWN and are of great significance in the prevention and control of PWD.

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