HbWRKY40 plays an important role in the regulation of pathogen resistance in Hevea brasiliensis

0301 basic medicine 0303 health sciences Gene Expression Profiling Protoplasts Arabidopsis Hydrogen Peroxide Genes, Plant Plants, Genetically Modified Plant Leaves 03 medical and health sciences Plant Growth Regulators Gene Expression Regulation, Plant Superoxides Colletotrichum Hevea Botrytis Promoter Regions, Genetic Reactive Oxygen Species Phylogeny Disease Resistance Plant Diseases Plant Proteins Subcellular Fractions
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-020-02551-x Publication Date: 2020-05-12T13:03:51Z
ABSTRACT
Overexpression of HbWRKY40 induces ROS burst in tobacco and increases disease resistance in Arabidopsis; RNA-seq and ChIP assays revealed the regulatory network of HbWRKY40 in plant defense. WRKY, a family of plant transcription factors, are involved in the regulation of numerous biological processes. In rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis, the roles of WRKYs remain poorly understood. In the present study, a total of 111 genes encoding putative HbWRKY proteins were identified in the H. brasiliensis genome. Among these genes, HbWRKY40 transcripts were significantly induced by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and salicylic acid. To assess its roles in plant defense, HbWRKY40 was over-expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana and Arabidopsis thaliana. The results showed that HbWRKY40 significantly induced reactive oxygen species burst in N. benthamiana and increased resistance of Arabidopsis against Botrytis cinerea. Transient expression in mesophyll cell protoplasts of H. brasiliensis showed that HbWRKY40 localizes at nuclei. In addition, transcripts of 145 genes were significantly up-regulated and 6 genes were down-regulated in the protoplasts over-expressing HbWRKY40 based on the RNA-seq analysis. Among these potential downstream targets, 12 genes contain potential WRKY-binding sites at the promoter regions. Further analysis through chromatin immunoprecipitation revealed that 10 of these 12 genes were the downstream targets of HbWRKY40. Taken together, our findings indicate that HbWRKY40 plays an important role in the disease resistance by regulating defense-associated genes in H. brasiliensis.
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