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O-42<br />
Transcriptional changes in response to heterologous expression of a pear PGIP in<br />
grapevine<br />
A.M. Ibáñez* 1 , Y. Gogorcena 2 , C.B. Agüero 1 , R.L. Reagan 1 , S.L. Uratsu 1 ,<br />
A.M. D<strong>and</strong>ekar 1<br />
1 Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis California, USA;<br />
2<br />
Department of Pomology, EEAD-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain<br />
*Corresponding author: amibanez@ucdavis.edu<br />
To suppress the virulence of Xylella fastidiosa (X. fastidiosa), the causative agent of Pierce’s<br />
disease (PD), Vitis vinifera cv ‘Thompson Seedless’ (TS) plants were transformed via<br />
Agrobacterium tumefaciens <strong>with</strong> the pear polygalacturonase inhibiting protein (pPGIP). We have<br />
previously shown that decreased leaf symptoms <strong>and</strong> movement of X. fastidiosa was achieved in<br />
transgenic plants expressing pPGIP after infection of X. fastidiosa, as in earlier findings <strong>with</strong><br />
Botrytis cinerea. Microarray analysis (Affymetrix) of leaf tissues of grapevines expressing<br />
pPGIP revealed 3007 genes <strong>with</strong> significantly altered expression (FDR adjusted p