1 WHEN NEMATODES ATTACK

Plant parasitic nematodes are the bane of potato growers around the world because there are so few effective ways to fight them. However, some wild plants, such as Solanum sisymbriifolium (SSI), are able to halt the life‐cycle of invading cyst nematodes long before the animals become sexually mature. Wixom et al. (https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20016) have identified 277 genes that change expression shortly after this plant's roots are invaded by these nematodes. Sixty percent of these changes did not occur when plants were treated with generic mediators of pathogen responses such as salicylic acid, methyl jasmonate, or wounding. It is possible that among these genes that only respond to nematodes are components of the unique resistance of SSI to cyst‐forming nematodes.

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研究要点，植物基因组，第13卷，第2期

1线虫袭击时

植物寄生线虫是全世界马铃薯种植者的祸根，因为对抗它们的有效方法很少。但是，一些野生植物，例如茄属植物（Solaum sisymbriifolium（SSI））能够在动物性成熟之前很长一段时间就阻止入侵的线虫线虫的生命周期。Wixom等。（https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20016）已鉴定出277种基因，这些基因在这些线虫入侵该植物的根后不久就改变了表达。当用病原体反应的通用介体（例如水杨酸，茉莉酸甲酯或伤口）处理植物时，这些变化的百分之六十没有发生。在这些仅对线虫有反应的基因中，可能是SSI对形成囊肿线虫的独特抗性的组成部分。