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Joshi A, Song HG, Yang SY, Lee JH. Integrated Molecular and Bioinformatics Approaches for Disease-Related Genes in Plants. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:2454. [PMID: 37447014 DOI: 10.3390/plants12132454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/23/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023]
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Modern plant pathology relies on bioinformatics approaches to create novel plant disease diagnostic tools. In recent years, a significant amount of biological data has been generated due to rapid developments in genomics and molecular biology techniques. The progress in the sequencing of agriculturally important crops has made it possible to develop a better understanding of plant-pathogen interactions and plant resistance. The availability of host-pathogen genome data offers effective assistance in retrieving, annotating, analyzing, and identifying the functional aspects for characterization at the gene and genome levels. Physical mapping facilitates the identification and isolation of several candidate resistance (R) genes from diverse plant species. A large number of genetic variations, such as disease-causing mutations in the genome, have been identified and characterized using bioinformatics tools, and these desirable mutations were exploited to develop disease resistance. Moreover, crop genome editing tools, namely the CRISPR (clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 (CRISPR-associated) system, offer novel and efficient strategies for developing durable resistance. This review paper describes some aspects concerning the databases, tools, and techniques used to characterize resistance (R) genes for plant disease management.
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- Alpana Joshi
- Department of Bioenvironmental Chemistry, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
- Department of Agriculture Technology & Agri-Informatics, Shobhit Institute of Engineering & Technology, Meerut 250110, India
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- Department of Bioenvironmental Chemistry, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioenvironmental Chemistry, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
- Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
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Loaiza CD, Duhan N, Kaundal R. GreeningDB: A Database of Host-Pathogen Protein-Protein Interactions and Annotation Features of the Bacteria Causing Huanglongbing HLB Disease. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms221910897. [PMID: 34639237 PMCID: PMC8509195 DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 09/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The Citrus genus comprises some of the most important and commonly cultivated fruit plants. Within the last decade, citrus greening disease (also known as huanglongbing or HLB) has emerged as the biggest threat for the citrus industry. This disease does not have a cure yet and, thus, many efforts have been made to find a solution to this devastating condition. There are challenges in the generation of high-yield resistant cultivars, in part due to the limited and sparse knowledge about the mechanisms that are used by the Liberibacter bacteria to proliferate the infection in Citrus plants. Here, we present GreeningDB, a database implemented to provide the annotation of Liberibacter proteomes, as well as the host–pathogen comparactomics tool, a novel platform to compare the predicted interactomes of two HLB host–pathogen systems. GreeningDB is built to deliver a user-friendly interface, including network visualization and links to other resources. We hope that by providing these characteristics, GreeningDB can become a central resource to retrieve HLB-related protein annotations, and thus, aid the community that is pursuing the development of molecular-based strategies to mitigate this disease’s impact. The database is freely available at http://bioinfo.usu.edu/GreeningDB/ (accessed on 11 August 2021).
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- Cristian D. Loaiza
- Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA; (C.D.L.); (N.D.)
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- Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA; (C.D.L.); (N.D.)
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- Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA; (C.D.L.); (N.D.)
- Bioinformatics Facility, Center for Integrated BioSystems, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-(435)-797-4117; Fax: +1-(435)-797-2766
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Dong AY, Wang Z, Huang JJ, Song BA, Hao GF. Bioinformatic tools support decision-making in plant disease management. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 26:953-967. [PMID: 34039514 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Revised: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 05/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Food loss due to pathogens is a major concern in agriculture, requiring the need for advanced disease detection and prevention measures to minimize pathogen damage to plants. Novel bioinformatic tools have opened doors for the low-cost rapid identification of pathogens and prevention of disease. The number of these tools is growing fast and a comprehensive and comparative summary of these resources is currently lacking. Here, we review all current bioinformatic tools used to identify the mechanisms of pathogen pathogenicity, plant resistance protein identification, and the detection and treatment of plant disease. We compare functionality, data volume, data sources, performance, and applicability of all tools to provide a comprehensive toolbox for researchers in plant disease management.
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- An-Yu Dong
- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Center for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Center for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Center for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Center for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Center for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, P. R. China.
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alfaNET: A Database of Alfalfa-Bacterial Stem Blight Protein-Protein Interactions Revealing the Molecular Features of the Disease-causing Bacteria. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22158342. [PMID: 34361108 PMCID: PMC8348475 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22158342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Revised: 07/25/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Alfalfa has emerged as one of the most important forage crops, owing to its wide adaptation and high biomass production worldwide. In the last decade, the emergence of bacterial stem blight (caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae ALF3) in alfalfa has caused around 50% yield losses in the United States. Studies are being conducted to decipher the roles of the key genes and pathways regulating the disease, but due to the sparse knowledge about the infection mechanisms of Pseudomonas, the development of resistant cultivars is hampered. The database alfaNET is an attempt to assist researchers by providing comprehensive Pseudomonas proteome annotations, as well as a host–pathogen interactome tool, which predicts the interactions between host and pathogen based on orthology. alfaNET is a user-friendly and efficient tool and includes other features such as subcellular localization annotations of pathogen proteins, gene ontology (GO) annotations, network visualization, and effector protein prediction. Users can also browse and search the database using particular keywords or proteins with a specific length. Additionally, the BLAST search tool enables the user to perform a homology sequence search against the alfalfa and Pseudomonas proteomes. With the successful implementation of these attributes, alfaNET will be a beneficial resource to the research community engaged in implementing molecular strategies to mitigate the disease. alfaNET is freely available for public use at http://bioinfo.usu.edu/alfanet/.
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Wang Y, Zhou M, Zou Q, Xu L. Machine learning for phytopathology: from the molecular scale towards the network scale. Brief Bioinform 2021; 22:6204793. [PMID: 33787847 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 01/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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With the increasing volume of high-throughput sequencing data from a variety of omics techniques in the field of plant-pathogen interactions, sorting, retrieving, processing and visualizing biological information have become a great challenge. Within the explosion of data, machine learning offers powerful tools to process these complex omics data by various algorithms, such as Bayesian reasoning, support vector machine and random forest. Here, we introduce the basic frameworks of machine learning in dissecting plant-pathogen interactions and discuss the applications and advances of machine learning in plant-pathogen interactions from molecular to network biology, including the prediction of pathogen effectors, plant disease resistance protein monitoring and the discovery of protein-protein networks. The aim of this review is to provide a summary of advances in plant defense and pathogen infection and to indicate the important developments of machine learning in phytopathology.
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- Yansu Wang
- Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, Shenzhen Polytechnic, China
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- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- Shenzhen Polytechnic, China
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Chen H, Li F, Wang L, Jin Y, Chi CH, Kurgan L, Song J, Shen J. Systematic evaluation of machine learning methods for identifying human-pathogen protein-protein interactions. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:5847611. [PMID: 32459334 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Revised: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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In recent years, high-throughput experimental techniques have significantly enhanced the accuracy and coverage of protein-protein interaction identification, including human-pathogen protein-protein interactions (HP-PPIs). Despite this progress, experimental methods are, in general, expensive in terms of both time and labour costs, especially considering that there are enormous amounts of potential protein-interacting partners. Developing computational methods to predict interactions between human and bacteria pathogen has thus become critical and meaningful, in both facilitating the detection of interactions and mining incomplete interaction maps. In this paper, we present a systematic evaluation of machine learning-based computational methods for human-bacterium protein-protein interactions (HB-PPIs). We first reviewed a vast number of publicly available databases of HP-PPIs and then critically evaluate the availability of these databases. Benefitting from its well-structured nature, we subsequently preprocess the data and identified six bacterium pathogens that could be used to study bacterium subjects in which a human was the host. Additionally, we thoroughly reviewed the literature on 'host-pathogen interactions' whereby existing models were summarized that we used to jointly study the impact of different feature representation algorithms and evaluate the performance of existing machine learning computational models. Owing to the abundance of sequence information and the limited scale of other protein-related information, we adopted the primary protocol from the literature and dedicated our analysis to a comprehensive assessment of sequence information and machine learning models. A systematic evaluation of machine learning models and a wide range of feature representation algorithms based on sequence information are presented as a comparison survey towards the prediction performance evaluation of HB-PPIs.
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Di Silvestre D, Bergamaschi A, Bellini E, Mauri P. Large Scale Proteomic Data and Network-Based Systems Biology Approaches to Explore the Plant World. Proteomes 2018; 6:proteomes6020027. [PMID: 29865292 PMCID: PMC6027444 DOI: 10.3390/proteomes6020027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2018] [Revised: 05/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The investigation of plant organisms by means of data-derived systems biology approaches based on network modeling is mainly characterized by genomic data, while the potential of proteomics is largely unexplored. This delay is mainly caused by the paucity of plant genomic/proteomic sequences and annotations which are fundamental to perform mass-spectrometry (MS) data interpretation. However, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques are contributing to filling this gap and an increasing number of studies are focusing on plant proteome profiling and protein-protein interactions (PPIs) identification. Interesting results were obtained by evaluating the topology of PPI networks in the context of organ-associated biological processes as well as plant-pathogen relationships. These examples foreshadow well the benefits that these approaches may provide to plant research. Thus, in addition to providing an overview of the main-omic technologies recently used on plant organisms, we will focus on studies that rely on concepts of module, hub and shortest path, and how they can contribute to the plant discovery processes. In this scenario, we will also consider gene co-expression networks, and some examples of integration with metabolomic data and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to select candidate genes will be mentioned.
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- Dario Di Silvestre
- Institute for Biomedical Technologies-National Research Council; F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Milan, Italy.
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- Institute for Biomedical Technologies-National Research Council; F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Milan, Italy.
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- Institute for Biomedical Technologies-National Research Council; F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Milan, Italy.
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- Institute for Biomedical Technologies-National Research Council; F.lli Cervi 93, 20090 Segrate, Milan, Italy.
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Yang S, Li H, He H, Zhou Y, Zhang Z. Critical assessment and performance improvement of plant–pathogen protein–protein interaction prediction methods. Brief Bioinform 2017; 20:274-287. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbx123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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- Shiping Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University
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- College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University
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