Zhangissina S.K.
al-Farabi Kazakh National University
saule.zhangisina@gmail.com
Plants are facing certain challenges by fungal, oomycete, bacterial and viral pathogens. The pathogen
attack and host tissues damages result in biochemical and functional changes, metabolic and physiological
disorders leading to partial impairment or even complete death of the host plant. Host resistance is mostly
cultivar- or accession-specific and less durable then non-host resistance (NHR), which is the resistance of
plants to a plethora of non-adapted pathogens and is considered as one of the most robust resistance
mechanisms of plants. It is more durable due to the reaction to different agents and is the common form of
plant defense mechanism exhibited by plants toward a vast majority of potential pathogens. Moreover, non-
host resistance is usually more complicated due to the involvement of multiple pathways. Complete
understanding of nonhost resistance mechanisms is imperative for developing the powerful crop cultivars.
The aim of the scientific-research work: advance our understanding of non-host resistance and provide new
resources for improvement of durable disease resistance in soft wheat based on information obtained from a
related plant model Brachypodium distachyon. An increase in the expression of genes encoding the
biosynthesis of salicylic acid under the action of biotrophic pathogens, in particular Puccinia emaculata was
also noted in Brachypodium distachyon. The role of protective proteins, including lectins, capable of
recognizing and selectively binding a variety of carbohydrates, involved in the effective regulation of the
intensity of the intake and in the effective system of plant response to pathogens, and subsequent restoration
of the integrity of the plant cell, transmission of signals to plant tissues and cells, in synthesis of the final
protective product and disruption of the vital pathogen functions has been shown as well.
Scientific adviser: PhD, Assistant Professor Zhussupova A.I.