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Symbiosis-related pea genes modulate fungal and plant gene expression during the arbuscule stage of mycorrhiza with Glomus intraradices

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The arbuscular mycorrhiza association results from a successful interaction between genomes of the plant and fungal symbiotic partners. In this study, we analyzed the effect of inactivation of late-stage symbiosis-related pea genes on symbiosis-associated fungal and plant molecular responses in order to gain insight into their role in the functional mycorrhizal association. The expression of a subset of ten fungal and eight plant genes, previously reported to be activated during mycorrhiza development, was compared in Glomus intraradices-inoculated wild-type and isogenic genotypes of pea mutated for the PsSym36, PsSym33, and PsSym40 genes where arbuscule formation is inhibited or fungal turnover modulated, respectively. Microdissection was used to corroborate arbuscule-related fungal gene expression. Molecular responses varied between pea genotypes and with fungal development. Most of the fungal genes were downregulated when arbuscule formation was defective, and several were upregulated with more rapid fungal development. Some of the plant genes were also affected by inactivation of the PsSym36, PsSym33, and PsSym40 loci, but in a more time-dependent way during root colonization by G. intraradices. Results indicate a role of the late-stage symbiosis-related pea genes not only in mycorrhiza development but also in the symbiotic functioning of arbuscule-containing cells.

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This work was supported by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry (doctoral grant to E. Kuznetsova), the Regional Council of Burgundy (Project no. 07 9201 AAO40 S3623), RFBR (10-04-01026, 10-04-01146), and the Russian Ministry of Science and Education (02.512.11.2254). Authors thank G. Duc for seeds of P. sativum cv. Finale and Pssym36 pea genotypes, C. Desmetz and Z. Hao for assistance respectively in RNA control and statistical analyses, and A. Colombet and V. Monfort for technical assistance.

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    Elena Kuznetsova, Pascale M. A. Seddas-Dozolme, Christine Arnould, Marie Tollot, Diederik van Tuinen, Silvio Gianinazzi & Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson

  2. Laboratory of Genetics of Plant Microbe Interactions, Department of Biotechnology, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Podbelsky chaussee 3, St. Petersburg, Pushkin 8, 196608, Russia

    Elena Kuznetsova & Alexey Borisov

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Kuznetsova, E., Seddas-Dozolme, P.M.A., Arnould, C. et al. Symbiosis-related pea genes modulate fungal and plant gene expression during the arbuscule stage of mycorrhiza with Glomus intraradices . Mycorrhiza 20, 427–443 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-009-0292-8

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