Interactions between Verticillium longisporum and plant terpenes

Plant roots secrete secondary metabolites to sense the enviroment around them. Among them, terpenes play a prominent role. Terpenes can have either fungistatic or fungicide action. However, their exact role in plant-host interactions is not fully understood. Verticillium longisporum is a soilborne pathogen causing disease in Brasicacae plants. In this project we investigated the transcriptomic changes of this species upon exposure to the ß-pinene monoterpene in different time points 0hpi, 8hpi, 24hpi and 24hpi. Overall design: 12 Verticillium longisporum RNA samples upon exposure to ß-pinene monoterpene in different time points 0, 8,24 and 48hpi