Claim · model-written summary
Silencing PKS10-2 significantly reduced banana disease symptoms and severity.
- Taxon
- bananae0
- Treatment
- silencing transformants for PKS10-2e0
- Interactor
- Pseudocercospora fijiensis
Pseudocercospora fijiensist0pathogen - Gene
- PKS10-2e0
- Outcome
- disease symptoms and severitye0
- Direction
- reductione0
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Verbatim
e0“Inoculation of banana plants with silencing transformants for PKS10-2 showed significant reduction in disease symptoms and severity that correlated with the degree of silencing in the conidia used for inoculation”
t0“Pseudocercospora fijiensis”
Title
Elizabeth Thomas; Roslyn D. Noar; Margaret E. Daub PLoS ONE 2021. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0258981
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Three fungal PKS gene clusters had high expression in infected banana from weeks 2 through 9.
- Association Disease severity correlated with the extent of PKS10-2 silencing.
- Intervention effect Two of four PKS8-2 silencing transformants reduced disease development.
- Association Disease development did not correlate with the degree of PKS8-2 silencing.
- Observation PKS8-2 transformants attained less silencing than PKS10-2 transformants.
- Observation Genome analysis found PKS10-2 orthologous clusters in P. fuligena and P. cruenta.
- Mechanism The authors infer a role for PKS10-2 in P. fijiensis pathogenicity.