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- Title
BcWRKY33A Enhances Resistance to Botrytis cinerea via Activating BcMYB51-3 in Non-Heading Chinese Cabbage.
- Authors
Wang, Huiyu; Zheng, Yushan; Xiao, Dong; Li, Ying; Liu, Tongkun; Hou, Xilin
- Abstract
The transcription factor WRKY33 is a vital regulator of the biological process of the necrotrophic fungus Botrytis cinerea (B. cinerea). However, its specific regulatory mechanism remains to be further investigated. In non-heading Chinese cabbage (NHCC, Brassica campestris (syn. Brassica rapa) ssp. Chinensis), our previous study showed that BcWRKY33A is induced not only by salt stress, but also by B. cinerea infection. Here, we noticed that BcWRKY33A is expressed in trichomes and confer plant defense resistance. Disease symptoms and qRT-PCR analyses revealed that BcWRKY33A-overexpressing and -silencing lines were less and more severely impaired, respectively, than wild type upon B. cinerea treatment. Meanwhile, the transcripts' abundance of indolic glucosinolates' (IGSs) biosynthetic genes is consistent with plants' B. cinerea tolerance. Identification and expression pattern analysis of BcMYB51s showed that BcMYB51-3 has a similar trend to BcWRKY33A upon B. cinerea infection. Moreover, BcWRKY33A directly binds to the BcMYB51-3 promoter, which was jointly confirmed by Y1H, dual-LUC, and EMSA assays. The importance of MYB51, the homolog of BcMYB51-3, in the BcWRKY33A-mediated B. cinerea resistance was also verified using the TRV-based VIGS system. Overall, our data concludes that BcWRKY33A directly activates the expression of BcMYB51-3 and downstream IGSs' biosynthetic genes, thereby improving the B. cinerea tolerance of NHCC plants.
- Subjects
BOTRYTIS cinerea; CHINESE cabbage; TURNIPS; PLANT defenses; SYMPTOMS; TRANSCRIPTION factors; GLUCOSINOLATES
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 15, p8222
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms23158222