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    Cross-kingdom global proteomics reveals specific modulation of disease signaling in multi-host fungal pathogen infection in chickpea and worm
    (American Chemical Society, 2026) Narula, Kanika; Ghosh, Shobha; Khan, Iqra Nafees; Sengupta, Atreyee; Chakraborty, Niranjan; Chakraborty, Subhra
    An interconnected loop of messages and counter-messages determine the outcome of host-pathogen interactions. Multihost pathogenicity across plants and animals, particularly nematode, is a major source of new infectious diseases. Fusarium oxysporum, a multihost pathogen, causes vascular wilt in chickpea and fusariosis in worm and humans. To comprehend Fusarium-responsive multihost pathogenicity, we temporally profiled cross-kingdom species, chickpea and worm using SWATH-mass spectrometry. Morphological analyses revealed that increased wilting and intestinal disintegration elicits a disease response in chickpea and worm. Peptide-spectrum library consisted of 5629 and 3138 proteins from Fusarium infected chickpea and worm, respectively. SWATH analysis identified 1573 and 2249 disease-responsive chickpea (CaDRPs) and worm proteins (CeDRPs) linked to diverse organs, organelles, and functionality. Pairwise comparisons; over-representation analysis between time, treatment, and organism; wilt, and fusariosis diseasome revealed common and unique modules. CaDRPs involved in preformed defense, biomolecule synthesis, phytohormone regulation, ser/thr kinase, and ATP signaling have perturbed interactions and functions, majorly in chloroplast. CeDRPs linked to the cuticular support, muscle organization, neuronal information, intestinal metabolism, G-protein, and notch signaling showed a deregulated function, especially in the cytoplasm. Common biological processes, included primary metabolism, ribosome biogenesis, calcium signaling, and proteostasis. Our data provide first evidence of translational plasticity in the Fusarium diseasome providing novel insights into multihost pathogenesis.
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    Serine hydroxymethyltransferase6 is involved in growth and resistance against pathogens via ethylene and lignin production in Arabidopsis
    (John Wiley & Sons, 2024) Singh, Pooja; Kumari, Aprajita; Khaladhar, Vemula Chandra; Singh, Namrata; Pathak, Pradeep Kumar; Kumar, Vinod; Kumar, Ritika Jantu; Jain, Priyanka; Thakur, Jitendra K.; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Bauwe, Hermann; Raghavendra, A.S.; Gupta, Kapuganti Jagadis
    Photorespiratory serine hydroxymethyltransferases (SHMTs) are important enzymes of cellular one-carbon metabolism. In this study, we investigated the potential role of SHMT6 in Arabidopsis thaliana. We found that SHMT6 is localized in the nucleus and expressed in different tissues during development. Interestingly SHMT6 is inducible in response to avirulent, virulent Pseudomonas syringae and to Fusarium oxysporum infection. Overexpression of SHMT6 leads to larger flowers, siliques, seeds, roots, and consequently an enhanced overall biomass. This enhanced growth was accompanied by increased stomatal conductance and photosynthetic capacity as well as ATP, protein, and chlorophyll levels. By contrast, a shmt6 knockout mutant displayed reduced growth. When challenged with Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato (Pst) DC3000 expressing AvrRpm1, SHMT6 overexpression lines displayed a clear hypersensitive response which was characterized by enhanced electrolyte leakage and reduced bacterial growth. In response to virulent Pst DC3000, the shmt6 mutant developed severe disease symptoms and becomes very susceptible, whereas SHMT6 overexpression lines showed enhanced resistance with increased expression of defense pathway associated genes. In response to Fusarium oxysporum, overexpression lines showed a reduction in symptoms. Moreover, SHMT6 overexpression lead to enhanced production of ethylene and lignin, which are important components of the defense response. Collectively, our data revealed that SHMT6 plays an important role in development and defense against pathogens.
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    Multihost compatibility of Fusarium oxysporum: early root colonization effectors into the action!
    (Springer Nature Publishing AG, 2023) Prasad, Ashish; Sharma, Shambhavi; Prasad, Manoj
    Agricultural productivity is greatly afected by several biotic factors which include insects, nematodes, bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Fungal pathogens in particular are a major setback to optimum crop production. A fungal species causing huge agro-economic losses world-wide is the Fusarium oxysporum (Fo) species complex. Fo is known to cause cross-kingdom infections in plants and humans (Zhang et al. 2020). In plants, it causes vascular wilt in several species; however, any particular Fo formae speciales (Fo f. sp.) can cause symptomatic infection on one or a few related species by invading their vasculature. Some important Fo f. sp. include apii, conglutinans, cubense, lycopersici, and melongena (Arie 2019). These strains can also survive in the root cortex of other hosts without invading the vasculature resulting in asymptomatic root colonization. A study by Redkar et al. has revealed that such an endophytic growth in multiple hosts is regulated by a group of conserved fungal efectors known as early root colonization (ERC) efectors.
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    Invasion and colonization of pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum R1 in Crocus sativus L. during corm rot disease progression
    (MDPI AG, 2022) Bhagat, Nancy; Magotra, Shanu; Gupta, Rikita; Sharma, Shikha; Verma, Sandhya; Verma, Praveen K.; Ali, Tahir; Shree, Ankita; Vakhlu, Jyoti
    The corm rot of saffron caused by Fusarium oxysporum (Fox) has been reported to be the most destructive fungal disease of the herb globally. The pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum R1 (Fox R1) isolated by our group from Kashmir, India, was found to be different from Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. gladioli commonly reported corm rot agent of saffron. In the present study, Fox R1 was further characterized using housekeeping genes and pathogenicity tests, as Fusarium oxysporum R1 f.sp. iridacearum race 4. Though Fox R1 invaded the saffron plant through both corm and roots, the corm was found to be the preferred site of infection. In addition, the route of pathogen movement wastracked by monitoring visual symptoms, semi-quantitative PCR, quantitative-PCR (q-PCR), real-time imaging of egfp-tagged Fusarium oxysporum R1, and Fox R1 load quantification. This study is the first study of its kind on the bidirectional pathogenesis from corm to roots and vice-versa, as the literature only reports unidirectional upward movement from roots to other parts of the plant. In addition, the colonization pattern of Fox R1 in saffron corms and roots was studied. The present study involved a systematic elucidation of the mode and mechanism of pathogenesis in the saffron Fusarium oxysporum strain R1 pathosystem.
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    Using foldscope to monitor superoxide production and cell death during pathogen infection in arabidopsis under different nitrogen regimes
    (Springer Nature Publishing AG, 2020) Arora, Reena; Singh, Pooja; Kumari, Aprajita; Pathak, Pradeep Kumar; Gupta, Kapuganti Jagadis
    Nitrogen nutrition plays a role in plant growth development and resistance against biotic and abiotic stress. During pathogen infection various signal molecules such as reactive oxygen species, calcium, reactive nitrogen species, salicylic acid, and ethylene plays an important role. The form of nitrogen nutrition such as nitrate or ammonium plays a role in production of these molecules. Under nitrate nutrition NO is predominant. The produced NO plays a role in reacting with superoxide to generate peroxynitrite to induce cell death during hypersensitive response elicited by avirulent pathogens. Excess of ROS is also detrimental to plants and NO plays a role in regulating ROS. Hence it is important to observe superoxide production during infection. By using an avirulent Pseudomonas syringae and Arabidopsis differential N nutrition we show superoxide production in leaves using a paper microscope called Foldscope, which can be applied as a simple microscope to observe objects. The data also compared with root system infected with pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum. Taken together here we show that Foldscope is a cost-effective and powerful technique to visualize superoxide and cell death in plants during infection.
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    Quantitative extracellular matrix proteomics suggests cell wall reprogramming in host-specific immunity during vascular wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum in chickpea
    (John Wiley & Sons, 2017) Elagamey, Eman; Narula, Kanika; Sinha, Arunima; Ghosh, Sudip; Abdellatef, Magdi A.E.; Chakraborty, Niranjan; Chakraborty, Subhra
    Extracellular matrix (ECM) is the unique organelle that perceives stress signals and reprograms molecular events of host cell during patho-stress. However, our understanding of how ECM dictates plant immunity is largely unknown. Vascular wilt caused by the soil borne filamentous fungus Fusarium oxysporum is a major impediment for global crop productivity. To elucidate the role of ECM proteins and molecular mechanism associated with cell wall mediated immunity, the temporal changes of ECM proteome was studied in vascular wilt resistant chickpea cultivar upon F. oxysporum infection. The 2-DE protein profiling coupled with mass spectrometric analysis identified 166 immune responsive proteins (IRPs) involved in variety of functions. Our data suggest that wall remodeling; protein translocation, stabilization and chitin triggered immunity; extracellular ATP signaling are major players in early, middle and later phases of ECM signaling during fungal attack. Furthermore, we interrogated the proteome data using network analysis that identified modules enriched in known and novel immunity-related prognostic proteins centered around nascent aminopolypeptide complex (NAC), amine oxidase, thioredoxin and chaperonin. This study for the first time provides an insight into the complex network operating in the ECM and impinges on the surveillance mechanism of innate immunity during patho-stress in crop plant.
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    A highly efficient Agrobacterium mediated transformation system of chickpea wilt pathogen Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri using DsRed-Express to follow root colonization
    (Elsevier, 2012) Islam, Md. Nazrul; Nizam, Shadab; Verma, Praveen K.
    The soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceri (Foc) causes vascular wilt of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), resulting in substantial yield losses worldwide. Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation (ATMT) has served as a resourceful tool for plant-pathogen interaction studies and offers a number of advantages over conventional transformation systems. Here, we developed a highly efficient A. tumefaciens mediated transformation system for Foc. In addition, a binary vector for constitutive expression of red fluorescent protein (DsRed-Express) was used to study developmental stages and host-pathogen interactions. Southern hybridisation was performed to confirm the transformation event and the presence of T-DNA in selected hygromycin resistant transformants. Most of the transformants showed single copy integrations at random positions. Microscopic studies revealed significant levels of fluorescent protein, both in conidia and mycelia. Confocal microscopy of chickpea roots infected with the transformed Foc showed rapid colonisation. These studies will allow us to develop strategies to determine the mechanisms of Foc-chickpea interaction in greater detail and to apply functional genomics for the characterisation of involved genes at the molecular level either by insertional mutagenesis or gene knock-out.