The Exocyst Complex Subunit EXO70E1-V From Haynaldia villosa Interacts With Wheat Powdery Mildew Resistance Gene CMPG1-V

EXO70 belongs to the exocyst complex subunit that plays a critical role in regulating plant cell polarity establishment and defense response. A previous study proved that the E3 ligase CMPG1-V from Haynaldia villosa, a diploid wheat relative, positively regulates the resistance to wheat powdery mildew (Pm), caused by fungus Blumeria graminis f.sp tritici (Bgt). In this study, a member of EXO70 superfamily named EXO70E1-V was isolated from H. villosa, and EXO70E1-V interacted with CMPG1-V were shown by yeast two-hybrid (Y2H), pull-down assay, bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assay, and luciferase complementation imaging (LCI) assay. It is localized in various subcellular organs, i.e., plasma membrane (PM) and endoplasmic reticulum. Co-expression of EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V showed dot-like structure fluorescence signals that were mainly in PM and nucleus. Expression of EXO70E1-V was relatively higher in leaf and was significantly induced by Bgt infection and exogenous application of hormones such as salicylic acid. Transient or stable overexpression of EXO70E1-V could not enhance/decrease the Pm resistance level, suggesting overexpression of EXO70E1-V alone has no impact on Pm resistance in wheat.


INTRODUCTION
The exocyst complex is a conserved octameric vesicle-tethering complex with principal roles in mediating secretory vesicle to the target membrane prior to SNARE-mediated fusion (Sabol et al., 2017;Kulich et al., 2018). EXO70, a key subunit of the exocyst complex, serves as a spatial landmark of the exocyst complex at the active exocytosis sites (Wu and Guo, 2015). There are multicopies of EXO70 in land plants (Ma et al., 2016). In coordination with other proteins, different members play a diverse role in the processes of cell polarity establishment, including a deposition of seed coat pectin (Kulich et al., 2010), xylem development and formation of Casparian strip Kalmbach et al., 2017), vascular bundle differentiation (Tu et al., 2015), pollen tube and trichome cell wall maturation (Fendrych et al., 2010;Synek et al., 2017;Kulich et al., 2018), leaf senescence and legume growth and development , and transport of PIN auxin carriers to specific parts of the plasma membrane (PM) (Drdova et al., 2013).
The important role of EXO70 subunits in plant defense responses against biotic stresses has been reported. AtEXO70B2 is a positive regulator in plant-pathogen interaction. It interacts with secreted defense-related protein SNAP33 and negative regulator PUB22 in PAMP-triggered responses, which prevents pathogens from infecting cells by increasing the cell wall thickness (Pecenkova et al., 2011;Stegmann et al., 2012). AtEXO70B1 is highly homologous with AtEXO70B2, which can be recruited to the cytoplasmic membrane by RIN (Sabol et al., 2017). AtEXO70B1 involves in plant defense responses by interacting with RIC7 and PUB18 to regulate the stomatal movement (Hong et al., 2016) or phosphorylated by CDPK5 and interacts with the atypical immune receptor TIR-NBS2 to block the growth of pathogens (Zhao et al., 2015;Liu et al., 2017). Moreover, AtEXO70E2 is essential for exocyst subunit recruitment to form a new organelle named EXPO. EXPO is a novel spherical double-membrane structure involved in unconventional protein secretion for cytosolic proteins (Wang et al., 2010;Ding et al., 2014;Robinson et al., 2016). OsEXO70E1 interacts with Bph6 to enhance the exocytosis and strengthen the cell wall, thereby hindering the feeding of the planthopper and as a result, improving the resistance (Guo et al., 2018).
Common wheat (Triticum aestivum L., 2n = 42, AABBDD) is one of the most important food crops, which is the staple food for at least one-third of the population of the world (Shi and Ling, 2018). The release of the draft genome sequence allows us to identify and analyze all the members of EXO70 superfamily . In our previous study, a U-box/Armtype E3 ligase gene CMPG1-V was cloned from Haynaldia villosa. The functional study demonstrated that CMPG1-V is a positive regulator in powdery mildew (Pm) resistance of common wheat (Zhu et al., 2015). However, the regulation mechanism remains unknown.
In this study, a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) screening was performed by using CMPG1-V as a bait, and a subunit of the exocyst complex was identified and cloned from H. villosa, namely EXO70E1-V. The interaction between EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V in vivo and in vitro was verified by pull down assay, luciferase complementation imaging (LCI) assay, and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assay. EXO70E1-V was significantly upregulated in response to Blumeria graminis f.sp tritici (Bgt) inoculation and exogenous salicylic acid (SA) treatments. Nevertheless, the functional analysis suggested that overexpression of EXO70E1-V alone has no impact on Pm resistance in wheat.

Plant Materials
Haynaldia villosa (2n = 14, VV, accession no. 91C43) was used for cloning and expression analysis; a set of T. aestivum-H. villosa addition lines (DA1V-DA7V), each contains one pair of chromosomes from H. villosa in Chinese Spring background used for chromosome location; wheat cultivar Yangmai158 (moderately susceptible to Bgt) was used for the subcellular localization analysis and as receptors for stable transformation; Sumai3 was used for propagation of the freshly mixed races of Bgt spores, and all of those materials were developed or preserved by Cytogenetic Institute, Nanjing Agricultural University (CINAU). Nicotiana benthamiana plants were grown in a controlled growth room at 24 • C/20 • C day/night with 12 h/day light and 70% humidity. The 5-to 6-week-old plants were used for Agrobacterium-mediated transient expression.

Yeast Two-Hybrid Protein-Protein Interaction
The yeast strain AH109 was cultured on YPAD plates that were used to test protein to protein interaction between CMPG1-V and EXO70-V. In brief, the full-length CMPG1-V fused with the DNA-binding domain of GAL4 in pGBKT7, while the EXO70-V cDNA sequence was inserted into a pGADT7 vector harboring an activation domain (AD) (Faheem et al., 2016). The transformation mixtures were plated on SD-Leu-Trp medium incubation at 28 • C for 2-3 days, and then the individual clones were spotted onto selection media SD-His/Leu/Trp with X-α-Gal (40 mg/ml). The primers are listed in Supplementary Table 1.

Firefly LCI and BiFC Assays
For firefly LCI assay, the coding regions of EXO70E1-V (without the stop codon) and CMPG1-V were ligated into the pCAMBIA-NLUC and pCAMBIA-CLUC vectors, respectively. For BiFC assays, the EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V were fused with the N-terminus or C-terminus of the splityellow fluorescent protein (YFP), respectively. The primers are listed in Supplementary Table 1. Different recombinant plasmids including NLUC-EXO70E1-V, CLUC-CMPG1-V, YN-EXO70E1-V, and YC-CMPG1-V with the control vector were introduced into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain GV3101. Overnight agrobacterial cultures were resuspended with infiltration buffer (10 mM MgCl 2 , 0.1 mM acetosyringone, and 10 mM MES). Different experimental and control group agrobacterial suspensions were mixed and co-infiltrated into 5-to 6-week-old N. benthamiana leaves by using a needleless syringe and then weak light growth. Two days later, for LCI, 1 mmol/L luciferin was infiltrated into the leaves, and the plants were kept in the dark for 10 min. LCI images were captured using a low-light cooled CCD imaging apparatus, as described by Chen et al. (2008). For BiFC, fluorescence was observed by confocal microscopy.

In vitro Pull-Down Assay
The full-length open reading frame (ORF) of EXO70E1-V was individually ligated into pGEX6p-1 vector for protein expression, and the primers are listed in Supplementary Table 1. The recombinant glutathione S-transferase (GST)-EXO70E1-V plasmid and control vector were expressed in the Escherichia coli strain BL21 (DE3) and purified by anti-chromatography using glutathione sepharose beads. Generation of the Maltose-Binding Protein (MBP)-CMPG1-V construct and protein purification were performed as described by Zhu et al. (2015). For pulldown assay, the GST-EXO70E1-V and GST alone (control) proteins were incubated with glutathione sepharose beads at 4 • C for 2 h with gentle shaking and then incubation with MBP-CMPG1-V and MBP proteins, respectively, for 1 h at room temperature. After incubation, the beads were harvested, washed once with PBS buffer containing 500 mM NaCl, and subsequently washed five times with the same buffer containing 135 mM of NaCl. The bound protein complex retained on the beads was extracted by boiling the beads in 10 µL of 2× SDS-PAGE loading buffer and finally analyzed by western blotting using GST and MBP antibodies.

Phylogenetic Analysis
The amino acid sequences of Arabidopsis EXO70 proteins were downloaded from the Ensembl Plants database 1 . All EXO70 protein sequences were aligned by ClustalW, and a phylogenetic tree was constructed by MEGA6 using the neighbor-joining method with the pairwise deletion option, Poisson correction, and bootstrap analysis with 1,000 replicates (Tamura et al., 2013).

RNA Extraction, cDNA Synthesis, and Gene Expression Profiling
Total RNA was extracted by using the Trizol Reagent Kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, United States) and analyzed by gel electrophoresis. The first-strand cDNA was synthesized with random oligonucleotides using the HiScript R II Reverse Transcriptase system (Vazyme, Nanjing, China). Quantitative reverse transcription (qRT)-PCR was carried out in a total volume of 20 µL containing 2 µL of cDNA, 0.4 µL of genespecific primers (10 µm), 10 µL of SYBR Green Mix, and 7.2 µL of RNase free ddH 2 O, using the Roche LightCycler 480 Realtime System (Roche, Basel, Swiss). The wheat tubulin gene was used as internal controls. The program and data analysis were carried out as described in the method suggested by Wang et al. (2018). Primers used for the qRT-PCR are designed by Primer5 listed in Supplementary Table 1. Three biological replications were performed. We obtained the in silico expression data of EXO70E1-V ortholog genes in wheat (TraesCS3A02G302600, TraesCS3B02G333800, and TraesCS3D02G299200) induced by Pm from the Triticeae Multi-omics Center wheat gene expression website 2 .

Vector Construction and Subcellular Localization of EXO70E1-V
The ORF of EXO70E1-V (without the stop codon) was amplified by using primers green fluorescent protein (GFP)-EXO70E1-V-F/GFP-EXO70E1-V-R and then inserted into pAN580 vector as C-terminal fusions to the GFP reporter gene driven by the double 35S promoter. The GFP-EXO70E1-V vector was transformed into Yangmai158 protoplasts. Plasmid DNA (1.5 µg/µL) for each construct was mixed with a red fluorescent protein (RFP)/mCherry-fused marker protein (1.5 µg/µL), and 20 µL of total DNA was used to transform 200 µL of protoplasts derived from 5-to 7-day-old plants. Vectors expressing the PM marker PIP2a-mCherry and the trans-Golgi network (TGN)/early endosome marker mCherry-SYP61 were provided by Yiqun Bao (College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China), and vectors for the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) marker (RFP-ER) and the Golgi marker (GmMan49-RFP) were provided by Libo Shan (Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, TX, United States). The GFP/RFP/mCherry signals were assessed by confocal imaging, 16-20 h after transformation. For imaging, an LSM780 confocal microscope (Zeiss, Jena, Germany) 3 was used as described by Zhu et al. (2015). The primers are listed in Supplementary Table 1.

Single-Cell Transient Overexpression Assay
EXO70E1-V was cloned into plant expression vector pBI220 to generate vectors pBI220-EXO70E1-V (Supplementary Table 1). Transient overexpression assay (TOA) was performed according to Shirasu et al. (1999) and Cao et al. (2011). The reporter plasmid pWMB002 containing the β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene and the expression plasmid were mixed before particle coating (molar ratio of 1:1; 1 µg of total DNA). The bombarded leaves were transferred to 1% agar plates supplemented with 85 µm benzimidazoles and incubated at 18 • C for 8 h before inoculation of high density Bgt conidia spores. Leaves were stained at 48 hours after innoculation for identifying GUSexpressing cells, which is the indicator of cells transformed with EXO70E1-V. The average haustorium index (HI, percentage of GUS-stained cells with haustorium in the total GUS-staining cells attacked by Bgt) was computed based on the means of three independent experiments, each based on at least 100 independent interaction events.

Wheat Transformation
The EXO70E1-V was overexpressed (driven by the CAMV 35S promoter) in Yangmai158 by stable transformation using the bombardment method according to Xing et al. (2008). The pAHC25 containing the reporter gene GUS and the herbicide tolerance gene driven by the Ubi promoter was used as a selectable vector. The pBI220-EXO70E1-V and pAHC25 vectors were co-transformed into calli cultured from immature embryos of wheat variety Yangmai158 by particle bombardment. Regenerated plants were produced as previously described

EXO70E1-V Interacted With CMPG1-V in vivo and in vitro
To elucidate the resistance pathway mediated by CMPG1-V, a Y2H cDNA library of H. villosa was constructed and used for screening using CMPG1-V as bait (Faheem et al., 2016). One positive fragment clone contains the typical Pfam03081 domain, which is typical for EXO70 superfamily. Based on the homologous cloning, the 1,815 bp full length of the gene was isolated from H. villosa, named EXO70E1-V, by the phylogenetic analysis with Arabidopsis thaliana (Supplementary Figure 1). EXO70E1-V protein is comprised of 605 amino acid proteins with the predicted molecular weight of 68.93 kDa and an isoelectric point of 5.04.
The interaction of full-length EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V were verified by Y2H (Figure 1A). To test the direct interaction between EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V, a GST pull-down assay was performed. The expected about 100 kDa fusion protein could be visualized only when GST-EXO70E1-V and MBP-CMPG1-V were co-incubated but not MBP (Figure 1B).
To confirm the interaction between EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V in vivo, the BiFC and firefly LCI assays were operated. The results showed that only the co-expression of YN-EXO70E1-V and YC-CMPG1-V in tobacco leaves resulted in the complementation of fluorescence localized on the PM ( Figure 1C). Meanwhile, the co-expression of CLUC-CMPG1-V and NLUC-EXO70E1-V in tobacco leaves could reconstitute a high luciferase activity, compared with the various negative controls (Figure 1D), and these results demonstrated that EXO70E1-V was able to interact with CMPG1-V both in vitro and in vivo (Figure 1).

The EXO70E1s Were Conversely Present on the Homologous Group 3
The chromosomal location of EXO70E1-V was determined by amplification using DNA from Triticum durum-H. villosa amphiploidy (genome AABBVV) and a complete set of Chinese Spring-H. villosa alien addition lines (DA1V-DA7V). A 285 bp product (YST-EXO70E1-V-F/R) was amplified in H. villosa, the amphiploid, and the addition line DA3V, but not in Chinese Spring, and the remaining tested addition lines. Thus, the EXO70E1-V was mapped to the chromosome 3V of H. villosa (Figure 2A).
In addition, we obtained the EXO70E1 protein orthologs from five Triticeae species (T. aestivum, Triticum urartu, Aegilops tauschii, Triticum dicoccoides, and Hordeum vulgare) by using the bioinformatics analysis. The EXO70E1 is a single copy in all five species and in all locations in homologous group 3 chromosomes.
The alignment of EXO70E1-V with its orthologs indicated that EXO70E1s are well-conserved ( Figure 2B). The results of the phylogenetic analysis showed obviously the branching between Arabidopsis and gramineous crops, and EXO70E1-V was closest to EXO70E1 from H. vulgare ( Figure 2C). Through the sequence similarity analysis, the similarity of EXO70E1 orthologous genes was more than 94%, and the similarity between EXO70E1-V and HvEXO70E1 is 97.41% (Figure 2D), which is consistent with the results of the phylogenetic analysis.

The Subcellular Localization of EXO70E1-V
The biological function of protein is closely related to its subcellular location. To determine the subcellular localization of EXO70E1-V, a co-expression vector containing EXO70E1-V and GFP-EXO70E1-V was constructed and transformed into wheat protoplasts. Compared with the ubiquity of GFP signals in the cell (Figure 3A), GFP-EXO70E1-V signals were mainly distributed in the nucleus and on the PM and also in some cytoplasmic signals ( Figure 3B). To determine the specific location, the marker genes for PM (PIP2a-mCherry), ER (RFP-ER), TGN/early endosome vesicle (RFP-SYP61), and Golgi (GmMan49-RFP) were co-transformed with GFP-EXO70E1-V, and the GFP signal was found to overlap with PM, ER, and TGN but not Golgi (Figures 3B-E). These results indicate that EXO70E1-V is located in the nucleus, PM, ER, and TGN. When GFP-EXO70E1-V and RFP-CMPG1-V were co-transformed into wheat protoplasts, dot-like structure fluorescence signals were partly colocated in PM and nucleus ( Figure 3F). This result indicated the possibility of participation of EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V together in similar biological processes.

Expression Profiling of EXO70E1s
To explore the potential biological function of EXO70E1-V genes in different organs and in response to stress treatments, the qRT-PCR was performed. The expression of EXO70E1-V showed a high expression level in leaves than in stems and roots ( Figure 4A). EXO70E1-V was upregulated and reached a peak at 48 h after Bgt inoculation, which was about 6-fold compared with non-inoculated H. villosa, but hardly induced by flg22 and chitin ( Figure 4B). EXO70E1-V was quickly induced by SA, which showed the tendency of quickly increasing first and then decreasing rapidly, got the peak value after 1 h treatment, that was about 7.5-fold compared with control and then back to a relatively lower level ( Figure 4C). The in silico expression analysis of EXO70E1-V ortholog genes (TraesCS3A02G302600, TraesCS3B02G333800, and TraesCS3D02G299200) in common wheat (Chinese Spring, susceptible) showed that they were not induced by Pm (Supplementary Figure 2).

Functional Analysis of EXO70E1-V in Pm Resistance
The function of EXO70E1-V in Pm resistance was validated using single cell TOA and stable transformation. The formation of haustorium indicates successful penetration of Bgt into wheat epidermal cells (Figure 5A). A higher HI indicates increased Pm susceptibility. For TOA, GUS alone and GUS + EXO70E1-V constructs were bombarded into leaves of a moderate Pm susceptible wheat variety Yangmai158. The HI values in the GUSexpressing epidermal cells were compared. The average HI in the GUS-expressing epidermal cells showed no significant difference in plants transforming GUS alone (HI: 60.97%) and plants cotransforming GUS + EXO70E1-V (HI: 60.54%) (Figure 5B). This indicated that transient overexpression of EXO70E1-V in Yangmai158 could not change its HI.
The regeneration plant was obtained by co-transforming pBI220-EXO70E1-V and pAHC25 (carrying bar gene as a selection marker) vectors into 1,000 young embryo calluses of Yangmai158 by using the particle bombardment-mediated transformation approach. The T 1 lines generated from EXO70E1-V-T 0 -2 and EXO70E1-V-T 0 -59 were selected for further analysis. The result of qRT-PCR showed that the expression level of EXO70E1-V varied in the T 1 transgenic plants and was comparable with H. villosa (contains EXO70E1-V), but no expression of EXO70E1-V was detected in the Yangmai158 (does not contain EXO70E1-V) (Figure 5C). The agarose gel electrophoresis analysis showed that EXO70E1-V existed in each of these two transgenic lines ( Figure 5D). However, T 1 lines were showed no obvious effect on Pm resistance at the seedling when detached leaves were inoculated with a mixture of Bgt isolates ( Figure 5E). The results further proved that the overexpression of EXO70E1-V in Yangmai158 could not change the resistance to mixed Bgt.

DISCUSSION
EXO70 acts as a key member of the exocyst complex, formed by three distinct subfamilies (EXO70.1, EXO70.2, and EXO70.3) (Elias, 2003), which functions in cell and organ morphogenesis, stress responses, and hormone signaling (Synek et al., 2006;Zhao et al., 2015;Sabol et al., 2017;Guo et al., 2018). In this study, we identified an EXO70 isoform by Y2H screening and cloned from H. villosa, named EXO70E1-V. The results of the experiment showed that EXO70E1-V was able to interact with wheat Pm positive regulator CMPG1-V both in vitro and in vivo (Figure 1), and the transcript could be rapidly induced by Pm and exogenous SA (Figure 4), speculating that EXO70E1-V might play a role in wheat Pm resistance. Subcellular localization is a key characteristic of protein functional research. In previous studies, AtEXO70E1 has mainly distributed a diffuse cytoplasmic signal in the protoplasts of A. thaliana (Ding et al., 2014). In this study, the GFP-EXO70E1-V fusion protein was transformed into wheat protoplasts, and the result revealed its main localization in the PM and nucleus. The incomplete consistent result possibly explained by different species has different evolutionary environments, and to better adapt to the change of the environment, the gene may evolve a new function based on the original function (Roulin et al., 2013). In addition, the co-localization fluorescence signals of GFP-EXO70E1-V and RFP-CMPG1-V proteins were mainly in PM and nucleus with the dot-like structure. There are a few reports about the ubiquitination of PM proteins in plants, including auxin efflux carrier PIN2, water channel aquaporin PIP2, flagellin receptor FLS2, and iron transporter IRT1 (Abas et al., 2006;Lee et al., 2009;Barberon et al., 2011;Lu et al., 2011). This result indicated the possibility of EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V participation in some overlapping biological process, and the location of the PM may be related to its function. CMPG1-V is localized in the PM, nucleus, ER, and partially in TGN/early endosome vesicles (Zhu et al., 2015). Combined with the result of BiFC that showed fluorescence signal in PM, we speculated that after EXO70E1-V interacted with CMPG1-V, they mainly function on PM. When the Bgt infected, they enriched on PM to identify the infection of Bgt whether EXO70E1-V is modified by CMPG1-V ubiquitination on the PM and how its functions can be further studied.
In our previous study, the phylogenetic analysis revealed that EXO70E1-V, together with AtEXO70E1/E2 and OsEXO70E1 fell into the E clade of EXO70 proteins . AtEXO70E2 can recruit other subunits to form a new organelle function on an unconventional secretory pathway, but no functional studies have been reported so far, so does its closest homolog AtEXO70E1 (Wang et al., 2010;Ding et al., 2014;Lin et al., 2015). OsEXO70E1 is involved in defense against herbivorous planthoppers by interacting with Bph6, which increases the exocytosis and leads to cell wall thickening (Guo et al., 2018). In this study, transient and stable overexpression of EXO70E1-V had no obvious effect on the resistance of wheat when compared with the Yangmai158 (Figure 5). Consequently, we speculated that the function of EXO70E1-V was possibly more inclined to AtEXO70E2, which is only responsible for recruiting other subunits to the area of active secretion, rather than participating in the later biochemical process. The overexpression of EXO70E1-V does not increase the resistance of wheat to Pm, which indicated that it may require the participation of other proteins, such as its interaction protein CMPG1-V. Meanwhile, we also transiently silenced EXO70E1-V gene in H. villosa by 1 and 2 represent vectors GUS alone and GUS + EXO70E1-V, respectively. Haustorium index is the percentage of GUS-stained cells having haustorium in the total GUS-staining cells attacked by Bgt. Each column represents the means ± SD. n.s. represents not significant. (C) EXO70E1-V expression in H. villosa, receptor Yangmai158, and two T 1 transgenic lines (T 1 -2 and T 1 -59). The expression levels were normalized to Tubulin, and H. villosa is set as "1." (D) Amplification for EXO70E1-V in T 1 transgenic lines. Yangmai158 and H 2 O were negative controls, and plasmid pBI220-EXO70E1-V was used as a positive control. Marker: DL2000 DNA ladder. (E) Observation of Pm spores on leaves. Yangmai158 and Nannong9918 were used as susceptible and resistant control, respectively. virus-induced gene silencing using the barley stripe mosaic virusmediated system; however, we did not change the Pm resistance level of H. villosa (data not shown). We suspected that it may be due to the presence of Pm21 that showed high resistance to Pm (Cao et al., 2011). The function of EXO70E1-V in Pm resistance needs to be further verified.
The phytohormone SA is closely related to disease resistance by inducing the expression of disease-related (PR) genes or as an early signal component (Vlot et al., 2009). H 2 O 2 accumulates in plant mesophyll cells, it induces the hypersensitive reaction, and the oxidative burst (production of ROS, including H 2 O 2 ) was related to the resistance of plants to the pathogen. In a previous study, the expression of CMPG1-V in H. villosa was increased when treated with SA, ABA, and H 2 O 2 , and the CMPG1-V transgenic plants show improved Pm resistance due to enhanced expression of SA-responsive genes and H 2 O 2 accumulation (Zhu et al., 2015). Our results showed that EXO70E1-V was also quickly induced by SA treatments, and EXO70E1-V and CMPG1-V were interacting on the PM. This indicates that CMPG1-V and EXO70E1-V may participate in the same hormone pathway. We speculated that EXO70E1-V participates in the transmission of different hormone signals in the process of CMPG1-V disease resistance to help CMPG1-V resist the infection of Pm.

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AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
JX, XW, JZ, and HZ conceived and designed the study and wrote the manuscript. JZ, HZ, XZ, ZW, YN, and YC analyzed the data. JZ, LS, HW, and HZ collected the plant materials. JZ, HZ, and XZ performed the experiments. All authors reviewed and edited the manuscript.