Plants (Oct 2023)

The Effects of <i>Rhizophagus irregularis</i> Inoculation on Transcriptome of <i>Medicago lupulina</i> Leaves at Early Vegetative and Flowering Stages of Plant Development

  • Andrey P. Yurkov,
  • Alexey M. Afonin,
  • Alexey A. Kryukov,
  • Anastasia O. Gorbunova,
  • Tatyana R. Kudryashova,
  • Anastasia I. Kovalchuk,
  • Anastasia I. Gorenkova,
  • Ekaterina M. Bogdanova,
  • Yuri V. Kosulnikov,
  • Yuri V. Laktionov,
  • Andrey P. Kozhemyakov,
  • Daria A. Romanyuk,
  • Vladimir A. Zhukov,
  • Roman K. Puzanskiy,
  • Yulia V. Mikhailova,
  • Vladislav V. Yemelyanov,
  • Maria F. Shishova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12203580
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 20
p. 3580

Abstract

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The study is aimed at revealing the effects of Rhizophagus irregularis inoculation on the transcriptome of Medicago lupulina leaves at the early (second leaf formation) and later (flowering) stages of plant development. A pot experiment was conducted under conditions of low phosphorus (P) level in the substrate. M. lupulina plants were characterized by high mycorrhizal growth response and mycorrhization parameters. Library sequencing was performed on the Illumina HiseqXTen platform. Significant changes in the expression of 4863 (padj M. lupulina plants under conditions of low phosphorus level. Taken together, the obtained results indicate genes that are the most important for the effective symbiosis with M. lupulina and might be engaged in other plant species.

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