Hairy Roots As A Model To Investigate The Role Of Suberin In The Phytophthora Sojae Soybean Pathosystem

Download or read book Hairy Roots as a Model to Investigate the Role of Suberin in the Phytophthora Sojae-soybean Pathosystem written by Pooja Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the resistance mechanism of soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) to Phytopthora sojae Kauf. & Gerd. involves pre-formed root suberin. In order to investigate the role of suberin in this host-pathogen interaction, I characterized hairy roots, formed as a result of Agrobacterium rhizogenes (Riker et al.) Conn infection, as a model to be used as a reliable soybean transformation system. I established hairy root cultures and demonstrated that they were a result of A. rhizogenes infection. The anatomy and suberin deposition in soybean hairy roots was examined, and found to be very similar to that of wild-type roots. In hairy roots, the amount of suberin (quantified using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry) increased in both epidermal and endodermal cells along the root axis as in wild-type roots. Finally, the response of soybean hairy roots to P. sojae infection was investigated and shown to be similar to that of wild-type roots.