Abstract:Wheat germplasm Edinburgh-b, introduced from Edinburgh, United Kingdom, displays immune to 33 current popular isolates of Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici in China. To elucidate the resistance molecular mechanism of Edinburgh-b to powdery mildew, its gene expression profiles under infection compared with that at 0 hour after inoculation were analyzed by using the Agilent 4 SymboltB@ 44 k wheat microarray. There were 5 835 altered expression probes among total 43 603 probe sets in the microarray plate, including 2 801 up-regulated and 3 034 down-regulated ones. The differentially expressed genes with known functions included enzymes involved in metabolism processes, transcription factors, pathogenesis-related proteins, defense response, and signal transduction. The pathway analysis showed that some genes involved in phenypropanoid biosynthesis, salicylic acid signal transduction, jasmonic acid biosynthesis, and active oxygen metabolism were up-regulated, and some genes involved in ethylene biosynthesis and auxin signaling pathway were down-regulated. These results suggested that salicylic acid and jasmonic acid signaling pathways might be involved in the defense responses of Edinburgh-b to powdery mildew. Furthermore, the gene expression levels of 17 up- or down-regulated genes validated by quantitative real-time RT-PCR were accord with those by the microarray analysis.