作者: Hong-Bin Liu , Lin Rui , Ya-Qi Feng , Xiao-Qin Wu
DOI: 10.3390/IJMS20153769
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摘要: The pine wood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is the pathogen responsible for wilt disease (PWD), a devastating forest with pathogenic mechanism that remains unclear. Autophagy plays crucial role in physiological and pathological processes eukaryotes, but its regulatory significance PWN are unknown. Therefore, we cloned characterized three autophagy genes, BxATG5, BxATG9, BxATG16, PWN. BxATG9 BxATG16 were efficiently silenced through RNA interference, found positively regulated expression of BxATG5. Silencing severely inhibited feeding reproduction PWN, indicating essential these processes. We then examined patterns genes under stresses α-pinene H2O2, main defense substances trees, during development PWD using quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. levels all significantly increased after nematodes stressed H2O2 inoculated into suggesting an important pathogenesis In this study, molecular characteristics functions elucidated.