Profiling the early transcriptional response of Svevo spikes to Fusarium head blight infection

After assembling the Platinum-quality reference genome for Svevo durum wheat cultivar, coupling PACBIO HiFi long read 35X sequencing with BIONANO Optical Mapping and Hi-C conformation capture, a complete and accurate gene annotation was then obtained by coupling Illumina RNASeq and Nanopore Isoseq sequencing from multiple tissues.

Gene expression was investigated in spikelets inoculated with Fusarium graminearum and in not infected controls to profile the transcriptional regulation of Fusarium head blight infection.