Transcriptome of Fusarium virguliforme colonization of corn and soybean roots

Project objectives were developed from both the plant and fungal interaction. Specifically, an asymptomatic host provides a unique application to discover genetic factors facilitating soybean sudden death syndrome through a transcriptomic investigation host-fungal interactions between mock and inoculated hosts of soybean or corn. However, the fungal interaction with soybean and corn interaction will allow a direct comparison of fungal response leading to an endophytic or pathogenic lifestyle when colonizing two different hosts, highlighting gene expression critical to pathogenicity upon soybean.