The application belongs to the technical field of
molecular biology breeding, and particularly relates to application of EF Hand family genes in improving resistance of tomatoes to pathogenic
Phytophthora. Two pathogenic
Phytophthora disease-related genes are found and verified in tomatoes, the genomic
nucleotide sequences of which are shown as SEQ ID NO: 1 and SEQ ID NO: 2 respectively, and the two genes both belong to members of the EF Hand
gene family. By knocking out or silencing the above genes through
gene editing technology, it is found that the tomato lines with the above genes knocked out or silenced have higher resistance to pathogenic
Phytophthora compared with wild types. Meanwhile, the
gene-edited tomato lines are not obviously affected in growth and development. Therefore, the application not only enriches the research on pathogenic Phytophthora
disease-related genes in tomatoes, but also develops tomato lines with enhanced resistance to pathogenic Phytophthora by using the characteristics of the above genes, thereby providing new technical strategies and gene resources for tomato breeding.