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Originally published as Genetics Published Articles Ahead of Print on October 9, 2008.
Genetics, Vol. 180, 2237-2250, December 2008, Copyright © 2008
doi:10.1534/genetics.108.091439
Complex Genetics Control Natural Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana Resistance to Botrytis cinerea
Heather C. Rowe and Daniel J. Kliebenstein1
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616
1 Corresponding author: Department of Plant Sciences, Mail Stop 3, University of California, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616.
E-mail: kliebenstein{at}ucdavis.edu
The genetic architecture of plant defense against microbial pathogens may be influenced by pathogen lifestyle. While plant interactions with biotrophic pathogens are frequently controlled by the action of large-effect resistance genes that follow classic Mendelian inheritance, our study suggests that plant defense against the necrotrophic pathogen Botrytis cinerea is primarily quantitative and genetically complex. Few studies of quantitative resistance to necrotrophic pathogens have used large plant mapping populations to dissect the genetic structure of resistance. Using a large structured mapping population of Arabidopsis thaliana, we identified quantitative trait loci influencing plant response to B. cinerea, measured as expansion of necrotic lesions on leaves and accumulation of the antimicrobial compound camalexin. Testing multiple B. cinerea isolates, we identified 23 separate QTL in this population, ranging in isolate-specificity from being identified with a single isolate to controlling resistance against all isolates tested. We identified a set of QTL controlling accumulation of camalexin in response to pathogen infection that largely colocalized with lesion QTL. The identified resistance QTL appear to function in epistatic networks involving three or more loci. Detection of multilocus connections suggests that natural variation in specific signaling or response networks may control A. thaliana–B. cinerea interaction in this population.
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