PMID- 29466404 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180426 LR - 20240315 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 2 DP - 2018 TI - Antioxidant genes of plants and fungal pathogens are distinctly regulated during disease development in different Rhizoctonia solani pathosystems. PG - e0192682 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0192682 [doi] LID - e0192682 AB - Biotic stress, as a result of plant-pathogen interactions, induces the accumulation of reactive oxygen species in the cells, causing severe oxidative damage to plants and pathogens. To overcome this damage, both the host and pathogen have developed antioxidant systems to quench excess ROS and keep ROS production and scavenging systems under control. Data on ROS-scavenging systems in the necrotrophic plant pathogen Rhizoctonia solani are just emerging. We formerly identified vitamin B6 biosynthetic machinery of R. solani AG3 as a powerful antioxidant exhibiting a high ability to quench ROS, similar to CATALASE (CAT) and GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE (GST). Here, we provide evidence on the involvement of R. solani vitamin B6 biosynthetic pathway genes; RsolPDX1 (KF620111.1), RsolPDX2 (KF620112.1), and RsolPLR (KJ395592.1) in vitamin B6 de novo biosynthesis by yeast complementation assays. Since gene expression studies focusing on oxidative stress responses of both the plant and the pathogen following R. solani infection are very limited, this study is the first coexpression analysis of genes encoding vitamin B6, CAT and GST in plant and fungal tissues of three pathosystems during interaction of different AG groups of R. solani with their respective hosts. The findings indicate that distinct expression patterns of fungal and host antioxidant genes were correlated in necrotic tissues and their surrounding areas in each of the three R. solani pathosystems: potato sprout-R. solani AG3; soybean hypocotyl-R. solani AG4 and soybean leaves-R. solani AG1-IA interactions. Levels of ROS increased in all types of potato and soybean tissues, and in fungal hyphae following infection of R. solani AGs as determined by non-fluorescence and fluorescence methods using H2DCF-DA and DAB, respectively. Overall, we demonstrate that the co-expression and accumulation of certain plant and pathogen ROS-antioxidant related genes in each pathosystem are highlighted and might be critical during disease development from the plant's point of view, and in pathogenicity and developing of infection structures from the fungal point of view. FAU - Samsatly, Jamil AU - Samsatly J AD - Plant Science Department, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada. FAU - Copley, Tanya R AU - Copley TR AD - Plant Science Department, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada. FAU - Jabaji, Suha H AU - Jabaji SH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3050-4723 AD - Plant Science Department, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20180221 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 RN - 0 (Antioxidants) SB - IM MH - Antioxidants/*metabolism MH - Fungi/*genetics MH - Genes, Fungal MH - Genes, Plant MH - Genetic Complementation Test MH - Plant Diseases/*microbiology MH - Plants/*genetics MH - Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Rhizoctonia/*metabolism PMC - PMC5821333 COIS- Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2018/02/22 06:00 MHDA- 2018/04/27 06:00 PMCR- 2018/02/21 CRDT- 2018/02/22 06:00 PHST- 2017/08/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/01/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/02/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/02/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/04/27 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/02/21 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-17-29567 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0192682 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2018 Feb 21;13(2):e0192682. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192682. eCollection 2018.