Role of Brassica rapa SWEET genes in the defense response to Plasmodiophora brassicae.
Jae-Han ChoiEun ChoJi-Woo KimSoo Min LeeGyung Ja ChoiSu Ryan ChoiMan Sung YangYong Pyo LimMan-Ho OhPublished in: Genes & genomics (2024)
Both sweet2 and sweet14 showed strong resistance to P. brassicae compared with wild-type Arabidopsis and Chinese cabbage plants and sweet13 mutant plants. Pathogenicity assays indicated that the SWEET2 gene plays an important role in clubroot disease resistance in higher plants.