Stress-dependent responses of grapevine wood and fungal pathogen activity under esca and drought
Authors: Chambard, M., Cantu, D., Bortolami, G., Dell'Acqua, N., Ferrer, N., Gambetta, G., Garcia, J., Gastou, P., Massonnet, M., Moretti, S., Rochepeau, A., Petriacq, P., Foulongne-Oriol, M., Delmas, C. E. L.
Category: Plant Biology
Model Organism: Vitis vinifera
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The study used wood metatranscriptomics, metabolomics, and metabarcoding to compare grapevine (Vitis vinifera) responses to drought and esca leaf symptom expression, revealing distinct but overlapping transcriptomic and metabolic signatures, including activation of phenylpropanoid and stilbenoid pathways. Drought reduced esca symptom expression, associated with decreased abundance of the wood‑decay fungus Fomitiporia mediterranea and altered fungal virulence factor expression, while increasing the relative abundance and anti‑oxidative gene expression of Phaeomoniella chlamydospora.