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Hefeng Cheng1, Yi Yang1, Lin Su1
1State Key Laboratory of Efficient Production of Forest Resources, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ornamental Plants Germplasm Innovation & Molecular Breeding, National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture, College of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, PR China.
Abstract:
Black spot disease, caused by Marssonina rosae (syn. Diplocarpon rosae), poses a significant threat to rose growth and quality, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying its suppression of host immunity remain largely unknown. In this study, we identified MrSEP20, a virulence effector secreted by M. rosae. Its expression increased during M. rosae infecting rose. Overexpression of MrSEP20 enhanced rose susceptibility to M. rosae by suppressing H2O2 accumulation, callose deposition, and salicylic acid (SA)-mediated defense gene expression. Conversely, host-induced gene silencing of MrSEP20 attenuated disease symptoms on rose. MrSEP20 directly interacted with RcPsaL and RcPsbX in rose, which are key subunits of photosystem I (PSI) and photosystem II (PSII), respectively. Both RcPsaL and RcPsbX positively regulated rose immunity. Overexpression of RcPsaL and RcPsbX enhanced H2O2 accumulation, callose deposition, and SA signaling, thereby reducing the black spot area by 21.01 % and 15.49 % in R12-26, respectively. In contrast, silencing RcPsaL increased the black spot area by 378.43 % in R13-54 and 16.47 % in R12-26, while silencing RcPsbX led to increase of 425.32 % and 17.26 %, respectively. Notably, MrSEP20-mediated disruption of photosystem integrity impaired reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and SA biosynthesis, thus compromising defense activation in rose. The results highlighted a novel virulence strategy whereby M. rosae effectors targeted photosystem components to modulate rose immunity, underscoring the pivotal role of photosystem function in plant-pathogen interactions, which providing new clue for elucidating the mechanism of black spot disease-resistance in roses.
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