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] |