Gene Details:

• Gene ID: Bradi2g44270
• Gene Symbol: BdWRKY44
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• Genome: Bd21 reference genome
• Species: Brachypodium distachyon

Functional Descriptions:

• Demonstrated that Bd3-1, an accession of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon, is resistant to R. solani and, upon inoculation with the fungus, undergoes rapid induction of genes responsive to the phytohormone salicylic acid (SA) that encode the WRKY TFs BdWRKY38 and BdWRKY44.
• A gene regulatory network (GRN) analysis based on the transcriptome dataset demonstrated that BdWRKY38 was a GRN hub connected to many target genes specifically in resistant accessions, whereas BdWRKY44 was shared in the GRNs of all three accessions.
• BdWRKY44-kd plants also exhibited compromised R. solani resistance, but the degree of decreased resistance was approximately 10 times lower than that in BdWRKY38-kd plants.

Function-related keywords:

• resistance ,  salicylic-acid ,  resistant ,  phytohormone ,  sa

Literature:

• BdWRKY38 is required for the incompatible interaction of Brachypodium distachyon with the necrotrophic fungus Rhizoctonia solani.   DOI:  10.1111/tpj.14976 ;  PMID:  32891065

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