Description
Grapevines are easy to be attacked by Erysiphe necator, so it is significant to uncover why Chinese wild Vitis pseudoreticulata has strong resistance to such a common fungi, which can provide guidance for breeding disease resistance grapevine varieties. This project is aimed to unravel the defense mechanism of Chinese wild Vitis pseudoreticulata to Erysiphe necator on posttranscriptional level mediated by microRNAs. To profile the microRNA expression affected by Erysiphe necator infection and identify microRNAs relative to powdery mildew resistance, two sRNA libraries were constructed from inoculated and non-inoculated grapevine leaves for small RNA high throughput sequencing.