Recently, the SHNU Research Team led by Professor Qiao Yongli from College of Life Sciences, published a paper Phytophthora sojae boosts host trehalose accumulation to acquire carbon and initiate infection. It takes advantage of various means, such as genetics, biochemistry and transcriptomics to reveal how effector of phytophthora bean improves the formation possibilities of its host trehalose. This academic paper pinpoints the new mechanism of an indispensable nutritional origin aids in its growth and develops a disease, thus illustrating the system of nutrition competition between phytophthora bean and the host.
Besides, the discoveries of PsAvh413 and PmTPS6 have been indicated and probed, along with how these findings could pave a new way for crops breeding, disease fighting and curb of biological invasive species’ spreading.
Qiao Yongli is the corresponding author of the paper, and four other SHNU teacher and postgraduate students are the co-first authors. It is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology (SCST), and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.
The paper can be reached by clicking https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-023-01420-z.
