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Book of Abstracts <strong>First</strong> <strong>Legume</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2013: A <strong>Legume</strong> Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013<br />

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Transcriptional profiling of grass pea genes differentially regulated in response to<br />

infection with Ascochyta pisi<br />

Nuno Felipe Almeida 1 , Susana Trindade Leitão 1 , Björn Rotter 2 , Peter Winter 2 , Diego Rubiales 3 ,<br />

Maria Carlota Vaz Patto 1<br />

1 Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal<br />

2 GenXPro, Frankfurt am Main, Germany<br />

3 Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, Córdoba, Spain<br />

Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is a robust crop, mainly due to its tolerance to drought and<br />

resistance to several diseases, being a good candidate for production in marginal areas. In order<br />

to increase the available genomic resources and knowledge on grass pea disease resistance, we<br />

studied the genetic alteration occurring, at the transcript level, when this grain legume is infected<br />

with Ascochyta pisi. This pathogen causes ascochyta blight, one of the most devastating legume<br />

diseases worldwide. For that, we have analyzed the leaf transcriptome profiles, generated by<br />

SuperSAGE, of a resistant grass pea accession during the first 24h after inoculation with Ascochyta<br />

sp. Transcript tags were annotated using cDNA libraries of L. sativus and L. cicera generated by<br />

RNA-seq. 29.468 sequence tags of 26bp were generated, w<strong>here</strong> 82% were present in the Lathyrus<br />

cDNA libraries, 2% found only in the TIGR database, 1% only in the NCBI database and 15%<br />

tags with no hits. This study of the transcription profiles by SuperSAGE in response to infection<br />

has as goal the identification of candidates genes involved in the control of resistance to<br />

ascochyta blight in grass pea. In the future the genomic resources <strong>here</strong> develop will be use to map<br />

economically important resistant traits and deliver markers for breeding. Our future work will<br />

focus on the transcription profiling of candidate genes identified via SuperSAGE in larger sets of<br />

resistant and susceptible germplasm to deepen our knowledge on those genes conferring<br />

resistance to ascochyta blight.<br />

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