Understanding biology of potato- virus PVY interaction

Abstract

Plant responses to viruses and the disease development are different and much less explored in comparison to bacterial or fungal infections. We are using NGS to perform untargeted analysis of potato transcriptome response when exposed to virus PVY, both on the level of mRNAs as well as sRNAs. Small RNA analysis using Solid platform identified significant differences of several miRNAs after viral infection that were so far not implied in plant defence against viruses.