Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (12): 146-154.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2020-0207

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Application of Metagenomics in Plant Diseases Research

WANG Pan-pan(), YANG Ye, LIU Di-qiu, CUI Xiu-ming, LIU Yuan()   

  1. College of Life Science and Technology,Kunming University of Science and Technology,Key laboratory of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Panax notoginseng Resources in Yunnan Province,State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Key Research Lab of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Panax notoginseng Resources,Kunming Key Laboratory of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Authentic Medicinal Materials,Kunming 650500
  • Received:2020-03-03 Online:2020-12-26 Published:2020-12-22
  • Contact: LIU Yuan E-mail:945179704@qq.com;liuyuan513@kust.edu.cn

Abstract:

With the continuous development of sequencing technology,metagenomics has become a current research hotspot and is one of the important approaches of studying plant diseases. Plant disease affects plant normal growth and development,even leads to the death of a plant. Most plant diseases result from pathogenic microorganisms or viruses. In contrast to traditional research methods on microbes,metagenomics can be used to investigate species composition and functional genes in samples by high-throughput sequencing and subsequent bioinformatics analysis,i.e. studying the species diversity. This paper summarizes and compares the analytical strategies of current metagenomics,and its applications in the study of plant rhizosphere microorganisms and plant viruses,and also provides an outlook on future trends,aiming at providing methodological reference in the study of plant diseases.

Key words: metagenomics, high-throughput sequencing, bioinformatics, plant diseases