Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

The genome and lifestage-specific transcriptomes of a plant-parasitic nematode and its host reveal susceptibility genes involved in trans-kingdom synthesis of vitamin B5

  • Shahid Siddique,
  • Zoran S. Radakovic,
  • Clarissa Hiltl,
  • Clement Pellegrin,
  • Thomas J. Baum,
  • Helen Beasley,
  • Andrew F. Bent,
  • Oliver Chitambo,
  • Divykriti Chopra,
  • Etienne G. J. Danchin,
  • Eric Grenier,
  • Samer S. Habash,
  • M. Shamim Hasan,
  • Johannes Helder,
  • Tarek Hewezi,
  • Julia Holbein,
  • Martijn Holterman,
  • Sławomir Janakowski,
  • Georgios D. Koutsovoulos,
  • Olaf P. Kranse,
  • Jose L. Lozano-Torres,
  • Tom R. Maier,
  • Rick E. Masonbrink,
  • Badou Mendy,
  • Esther Riemer,
  • Mirosław Sobczak,
  • Unnati Sonawala,
  • Mark G. Sterken,
  • Peter Thorpe,
  • Joris J. M. van Steenbrugge,
  • Nageena Zahid,
  • Florian Grundler,
  • Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33769-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Plant-parasitic nematodes are a threat to crop production. Combining bioinformatics, genetic and biochemical approaches, the authors show that the plant pathogen beet cyst nematode possesses an incomplete vitamin B5 synthesis pathway, of potential prokaryotic origin, complemented by its plant host.