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Table 3 The role of genes upon the application of Si subjected to biotic stress/disease

From: Exploration of silicon functions to integrate with biotic stress tolerance and crop improvement

Stress/disease

Plant

Functional annotation

Biological process

Function of Genes

Source

Rice blast

Rice (Oryza sativa)

β-1,3-Glucanase precursor, transport of heavy metal/detoxification protein domain-containing protein, pathogenic related transcriptional factor and ERF domain containing protein, precursor of peroxidase, resistance protein of bacterial blight and precursor of peroxidase

Defense

↑

[83]

Stem rust tolerance protein of barley, family protein of disease resistance, HSP-20 domain containing protein, peroxidase, terpene synthase like protein and pathogenesis related protein type-I

↓

  

WRKY domain containing protein of DNA binding, transcriptional protein of trans-acting and R2R3 Myb protein (type-P)

Regulatory

↓

 

Bacterial wilt

Tomatao (Solanum lycopersicum)

Stress responsive factor, pathogenesis related protein-1, β-glucanase, chitinase class II, peroxidase, phenylalanine ammonia lyase, Arabinogalactan protein and polygalacturonase inhibitor protein

Defense

↑

[98]

Rice blast

Rice (Oryza sativa)

Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase kinase, RNA-directed DNA polymerase (RT) domain containing protein, high pl α-glucosidase, oxalate oxidase like protein and P-type ATPase

Housekeeping

↑

[83]

Family protein of putative cyclase, protein of transferase family, Dicyp-2 cyclophilin, DNA-directed RNA polymerase-2 and tyrosine decarboxylase I

↓

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenase

Photosynthetic

↓

 

Bacterial wilt

Tomatao (Solanum lycopersicum)

Group of WRKY transcription factor-II, jasmonate and ethylene responsive factor-III and ferredoxin-I

Regulatory

↑

[98]

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