Towards the identification of genes involved in resistence/tolerance to “flavescence dorée”

A list of genes possibly involved in response to “flavescence dorée” (FD) was obtained by the comparison of RNAseq data from grapevine and Arabidopsis thaliana infected with FD. From one to four weeks post-inoculation, the relative expression of twenty genes was studied comparing healthy and infected plants. A reverse genetic approach using knockout A. thaliana mutants was adopted to validate the gene expression results.