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Schmidt SK, Costello EK, Nemergut DR, Cleveland CC, Reed SC, Weintraub MN, Meyer AF, Martin AM. Biogeochemical consequences of rapid microbial turnover and seasonal succession in soil. Ecology 2007; 88:1379-85. [PMID: 17601130 DOI: 10.1890/06-0164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Soil microbial communities have the metabolic and genetic capability to adapt to changing environmental conditions on very short time scales. In this paper we combine biogeochemical and molecular approaches to reveal this potential, showing that microbial biomass can turn over on time scales of days to months in soil, resulting in a succession of microbial communities over the course of a year. This new understanding of the year-round turnover and succession of microbial communities allows us for the first time to propose a temporally explicit N cycle that provides mechanistic hypotheses to explain both the loss and retention of dissolved organic N (DON) and inorganic N (DIN) throughout the year in terrestrial ecosystems. In addition, our results strongly support the hypothesis that turnover of the microbial community is the largest source of DON and DIN for plant uptake during the plant growing season. While this model of microbial biogeochemistry is derived from observed dynamics in the alpine, we present several examples from other ecosystems to indicate that the general ideas of biogeochemical fluxes being linked to turnover and succession of microbial communities are applicable to a wide range of terrestrial ecosystems.
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- S K Schmidt
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UniversitY, of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA.
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Keyes WJ, Palmer AG, Erbil WK, Taylor JV, Apkarian RP, Weeks ER, Lynn DG. Semagenesis and the parasitic angiosperm Striga asiatica. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2007; 51:707-16. [PMID: 17573801 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2007.03171.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Over the last several years, intermediates in the reduction of dioxygen have been attributed diverse functional roles ranging from protection against pathogen attack to the regulation of cellular development. Evidence now suggests that parasitic angiosperms, which naturally commit to virulence through the growth of new organs, depend on reduced oxygen intermediates, or reactive oxygen species (ROS), for signal generation. Clearly, the role of ROS in both plant defense and other physiological responses complicates any models that employ these intermediates in host plant recognition. Here we exploit the transparent young Striga asiatica seedling to (i) localize the site of H(2)O(2) accumulation to the surface cells of the primary root meristem, (ii) demonstrate the accumulation of H(2)O(2) within cytoplasmic and apoplastic compartments, and (iii) document precise regulation of H(2)O(2) accumulation during development of the host attachment organ, the haustorium. These studies reveal a new active process for signal generation, host detection and commitment that is capable of ensuring the correct spatial and temporal positioning for attachment.
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- William John Keyes
- Departments of Chemistry and Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Steinkellner S, Lendzemo V, Langer I, Schweiger P, Khaosaad T, Toussaint JP, Vierheilig H. Flavonoids and strigolactones in root exudates as signals in symbiotic and pathogenic plant-fungus interactions. Molecules 2007; 12:1290-306. [PMID: 17909485 PMCID: PMC6149470 DOI: 10.3390/12071290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2007] [Revised: 06/20/2007] [Accepted: 07/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Secondary plant compounds are important signals in several symbiotic and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions. The present review is limited to two groups of secondary plant compounds, flavonoids and strigolactones, which have been reported in root exudates. Data on flavonoids as signaling compounds are available from several symbiotic and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions, whereas only recently initial data on the role of strigolactones as plant signals in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis have been reported. Data from other plant-microbe interactions and strigolactones are not available yet. In the present article we are focusing on flavonoids in plant-fungal interactions such as the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) association and the signaling between different Fusarium species and plants. Moreover the role of strigolactones in the AM association is discussed and new data on the effect of strigolactones on fungi, apart from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), are provided.
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- Siegrid Steinkellner
- Institut für Pflanzenschutz, Department für Angewandte Pflanzenwissenschaften und Pflanzen-biotechnologie, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Straße 82, A-1190 Wien, Austria; E-mail: , ;
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- Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, Maroua, Cameroon; E-mail:
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- Institut für Bodenforschung, Department für Wald- und Bodenwissenschaften, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Straße 82, A-1190 Wien, Austria; E-mail: ;
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- Institut für Bodenforschung, Department für Wald- und Bodenwissenschaften, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Straße 82, A-1190 Wien, Austria; E-mail: ;
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- Institut für Pflanzenschutz, Department für Angewandte Pflanzenwissenschaften und Pflanzen-biotechnologie, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Straße 82, A-1190 Wien, Austria; E-mail: , ;
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; E-mail:
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- Institut für Pflanzenschutz, Department für Angewandte Pflanzenwissenschaften und Pflanzen-biotechnologie, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Straße 82, A-1190 Wien, Austria; E-mail: , ;
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Fox JE, Gulledge J, Engelhaupt E, Burow ME, McLachlan JA. Pesticides reduce symbiotic efficiency of nitrogen-fixing rhizobia and host plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:10282-7. [PMID: 17548832 PMCID: PMC1885820 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611710104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Unprecedented agricultural intensification and increased crop yield will be necessary to feed the burgeoning world population, whose global food demand is projected to double in the next 50 years. Although grain production has doubled in the past four decades, largely because of the widespread use of synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation promoted by the "Green Revolution," this rate of increased agricultural output is unsustainable because of declining crop yields and environmental impacts of modern agricultural practices. The last 20 years have seen diminishing returns in crop yield in response to increased application of fertilizers, which cannot be completely explained by current ecological models. A common strategy to reduce dependence on nitrogenous fertilizers is the production of leguminous crops, which fix atmospheric nitrogen via symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria, in rotation with nonleguminous crops. Here we show previously undescribed in vivo evidence that a subset of organochlorine pesticides, agrichemicals, and environmental contaminants induces a symbiotic phenotype of inhibited or delayed recruitment of rhizobia bacteria to host plant roots, fewer root nodules produced, lower rates of nitrogenase activity, and a reduction in overall plant yield at time of harvest. The environmental consequences of synthetic chemicals compromising symbiotic nitrogen fixation are increased dependence on synthetic nitrogenous fertilizer, reduced soil fertility, and unsustainable long-term crop yields.
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- Jennifer E. Fox
- *Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Oregon, 335 Pacific Hall, Eugene, OR 97403
- Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
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- Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
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- Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, Hematology and Medical Oncology Section, Tulane University Medical School, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
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- Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Environmental Endocrinology Laboratory, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699
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Baptista P, Martins A, Pais MS, Tavares RM, Lino-Neto T. Involvement of reactive oxygen species during early stages of ectomycorrhiza establishment between Castanea sativa and Pisolithus tinctorius. MYCORRHIZA 2007; 17:185-193. [PMID: 17216276 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-006-0091-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2005] [Accepted: 11/08/2006] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Evidence for the participation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and antioxidant systems in ectomycorrhizal (ECM) establishment is lacking. In this paper, we evaluated ROS production and the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) during the early contact of the ECM fungus Pisolithus tinctorius with the roots of Castanea sativa (chestnut tree). Roots were placed in contact with P. tinctorius mycelia, and ROS production was evaluated by determining the levels of H(2)O(2) and O(2) (.-) during the early stages of fungal contact. Three peaks of H(2)O(2) production were detected, the first two coinciding with O(2) (.-) bursts. The first H(2)O(2) production peak coincided with an increase in SOD activity, whereas CAT activity seemed to be implicated in H(2)O(2) scavenging. P. tinctorius growth was evaluated in the presence of P. tinctorius-elicited C. sativa crude extracts prepared during the early stages of fungal contact. Differential hyphal growth that matched the H(2)O(2) production profile with a delay was detected. The result suggests that during the early stages of ECM establishment, H(2)O(2) results from an inhibition of ROS-scavenging enzymes and plays a role in signalling during symbiotic establishment.
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- Paula Baptista
- CIMO/ESAB, Escola Superior Agrária de Bragança, Quinta de Sta Apolónia, Apartado 1172, 5301-855, Bragança, Portugal.
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- CIMO/ESAB, Escola Superior Agrária de Bragança, Quinta de Sta Apolónia, Apartado 1172, 5301-855, Bragança, Portugal
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- Unidade de Biologia Molecular e Biotecnologia Vegetal, Instituto de Ciência Aplicada e Tecnologia, Edifício ICAT, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Bioquímica e Fisiologia Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Biologia, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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- Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Bioquímica e Fisiologia Molecular de Plantas, Centro de Biologia, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal
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Bouwmeester HJ, Roux C, Lopez-Raez JA, Bécard G. Rhizosphere communication of plants, parasitic plants and AM fungi. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2007; 12:224-30. [PMID: 17416544 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2007.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2006] [Revised: 02/20/2007] [Accepted: 03/27/2007] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Plants use an array of secondary metabolites to defend themselves against harmful organisms and to attract others that are beneficial. However, the attraction of beneficial organisms could also lead to abuse by malevolent organisms. An exciting example of such abuse is the relationship between plants, beneficial mutualistic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and harmful parasitic plants. Signalling molecules called strigolactones, which are secreted by plant roots in low concentrations, induce the growth of both obligate biotrophs. Here, we review the importance of strigolactones for these two interactions and discuss possible developments that should further clarify the role of these signalling molecules in rhizosphere processes.
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- Harro J Bouwmeester
- Laboratory for Plant Physiology, Wageningen University, Arboretumlaan 4, 6703 BD Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Wen F, VanEtten HD, Tsaprailis G, Hawes MC. Extracellular proteins in pea root tip and border cell exudates. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2007; 143:773-83. [PMID: 17142479 PMCID: PMC1803736 DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.091637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2006] [Accepted: 11/17/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Newly generated plant tissue is inherently sensitive to infection. Yet, when pea (Pisum sativum) roots are inoculated with the pea pathogen, Nectria haematococca, most newly generated root tips remain uninfected even though most roots develop lesions just behind the tip in the region of elongation. The resistance mechanism is unknown but is correlated spatially with the presence of border cells on the cap periphery. Previously, an array of >100 extracellular proteins was found to be released while border cell separation proceeds. Here we report that protein secretion from pea root caps is induced in correlation with border cell separation. When this root cap secretome was proteolytically degraded during inoculation of pea roots with N. haematococca, the percentage of infected root tips increased from 4% +/- 3% to 100%. In control experiments, protease treatment of conidia or roots had no effect on growth and development of the fungus or the plant. A complex of >100 extracellular proteins was confirmed, by multidimensional protein identification technology, to comprise the root cap secretome. In addition to defense-related and signaling enzymes known to be present in the plant apoplast were ribosomal proteins, 14-3-3 proteins, and others typically associated with intracellular localization but recently shown to be extracellular components of microbial biofilms. We conclude that the root cap, long known to release a high molecular weight polysaccharide mucilage and thousands of living cells into the incipient rhizosphere, also secretes a complex mixture of proteins that appear to function in protection of the root tip from infection.
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- Fushi Wen
- Department of Plant Sciences, Division of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Prithiviraj B, Perry LG, Badri DV, Vivanco JM. Chemical facilitation and induced pathogen resistance mediated by a root-secreted phytotoxin. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2007; 173:852-860. [PMID: 17286833 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01964.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The flavonol (+/-)-catechin is an allelochemical produced by the invasive weed Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed). The full effects of (+/-)-catechin on plant communities in both the native and the introduced ranges of C. maculosa remain uncertain. Here, by supplementing plant growth media with (+/-)-catechin, we showed that low (+/-)-catechin concentrations may induce growth and defense responses in neighboring plants. Doses of the allelochemical lower than the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) induced growth in Arabidopsis thaliana; plants treated with 25 microg ml(-1) (+/-)-catechin accumulated more than twice the biomass of untreated control plants. Further, pretreatment of A. thaliana roots with low concentrations of (+/-)-catechin induced resistance to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 in A. thaliana leaves. Low doses of (+/-)-catechin resulted in moderate increases in reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the meristems of treated plants, which may have loosened the cell walls and thus increased growth. Experiments with A. thaliana mutants indicated that (+/-)-catechin induces pathogen resistance by up-regulating defense genes via the salicylic acid (SA)/nonexpressor of pathogenesis related protein 1 (NPR1)-dependent pathway. Our results suggest that the growth and defense-inducing effects of (+/-)-catechin are concentration dependent, as (+/-)-catechin at higher concentrations is phytotoxic, thus suggesting the potential for hormesis to occur in nature.
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- Balakrishnan Prithiviraj
- Department of Plant and Animal Sciences, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada B2N 5E3
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- Center for Rhizosphere Biology and
- Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1173, USA
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Paterson E, Gebbing T, Abel C, Sim A, Telfer G. Rhizodeposition shapes rhizosphere microbial community structure in organic soil. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2007; 173:600-610. [PMID: 17244055 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01931.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The aims of the study were to determine group specificity in microbial utilization of root-exudate compounds and whole rhizodeposition; quantify the proportions of carbon acquired by microbial groups from soil organic matter and rhizodeposition, respectively; and assess the importance of root-derived C as a driver of soil microbial community structure. Additions of 13C-labelled root-exudate compounds to organic soil and steady-state labelling of Lolium perenne, coupled to compound-specific isotope ratio mass spectrometry, were used to quantify group-specific microbial utilization of rhizodeposition. Microbial utilization of glucose and fumaric acid was widespread through the microbial community, but glycine was utilized by a narrower range of populations, as indicated by the enrichment of phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis fractions. In L. perenne rhizospheres, high rates of rhizodeposit utilization by microbial groups showed good correspondence with increased abundance of these groups in the rhizosphere. Although rhizodeposition was not the quantitatively dominant C source for microbes in L. perenne rhizospheres, relative utilization of this C source was an important driver of microbial group abundance in organic soil.
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- Eric Paterson
- Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
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- Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
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- Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
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- Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
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- Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, Scotland, UK
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Cardon ZG, Gage DJ. Resource Exchange in the Rhizosphere: Molecular Tools and the Microbial Perspective. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2006. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Zoe G. Cardon
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269;
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269;
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Besserer A, Puech-Pagès V, Kiefer P, Gomez-Roldan V, Jauneau A, Roy S, Portais JC, Roux C, Bécard G, Séjalon-Delmas N. Strigolactones stimulate arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi by activating mitochondria. PLoS Biol 2006; 4:e226. [PMID: 16787107 PMCID: PMC1481526 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 430] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2005] [Accepted: 05/04/2006] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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The association of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi with plant roots is the oldest and ecologically most important symbiotic relationship between higher plants and microorganisms, yet the mechanism by which these fungi detect the presence of a plant host is poorly understood. Previous studies have shown that roots secrete a branching factor (BF) that strongly stimulates branching of hyphae during germination of the spores of AM fungi. In the BF of Lotus, a strigolactone was found to be the active molecule. Strigolactones are known as germination stimulants of the parasitic plants Striga and Orobanche. In this paper, we show that the BF of a monocotyledonous plant, Sorghum, also contains a strigolactone. Strigolactones strongly and rapidly stimulated cell proliferation of the AM fungus Gigaspora rosea at concentrations as low as 10(-13) M. This effect was not found with other sesquiterperne lactones known as germination stimulants of parasitic weeds. Within 1 h of treatment, the density of mitochondria in the fungal cells increased, and their shape and movement changed dramatically. Strigolactones stimulated spore germination of two other phylogenetically distant AM fungi, Glomus intraradices and Gl. claroideum. This was also associated with a rapid increase of mitochondrial density and respiration as shown with Gl. intraradices. We conclude that strigolactones are important rhizospheric plant signals involved in stimulating both the pre-symbiotic growth of AM fungi and the germination of parasitic plants.
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- Arnaud Besserer
- 1UMR 5546, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- 2Laboratoire Biotechnologie-Bioprocédés, L'Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Toulouse, France
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- 3IFR40, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- 1UMR 5546, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- 2Laboratoire Biotechnologie-Bioprocédés, L'Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Toulouse, France
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- 1UMR 5546, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- 1UMR 5546, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- 4UMR 5546, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique–Université Toulouse III, Pôle de Biotechnologies Végétales, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Witzany G. Plant communication from biosemiotic perspective: differences in abiotic and biotic signal perception determine content arrangement of response behavior. Context determines meaning of meta-, inter- and intraorganismic plant signaling. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2006; 1:169-78. [PMID: 19521482 PMCID: PMC2634023 DOI: 10.4161/psb.1.4.3163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2006] [Accepted: 06/19/2006] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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As in all organisms, the evolution, development and growth of plants depends on the success of complex communication processes. These communication processes are primarily sign mediated interactions and not simply an exchange of information. They involve active coordination and active organization-conveyed by signs. A wide range of chemical substances and physical influences serve as signs.Different abiotic or biotic influences require different behaviors. Depending on the behavior, the core set of signs common to species, families, genera and organismic kingdoms is variously produced, combined and transported. This allows entirely different communication processes to be carried out with the same types of chemical molecules.Almost without exception, plant communication are parallel processes on multiple levels, (A) between plants and microorganisms, fungi, insects and other animals, (B) between different plant species as well as between members of the same plant species; (C), between cells and in cells of the plant organism.
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Fischer DG, Hart SC, Rehill BJ, Lindroth RL, Keim P, Whitham TG. Do high-tannin leaves require more roots? Oecologia 2006; 149:668-75. [PMID: 16804703 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0471-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2006] [Accepted: 05/15/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The well-known deceleration of nitrogen (N) cycling in the soil resulting from addition of large amounts of foliar condensed tannins may require increased fine-root growth in order to meet plant demands for N. We examined correlations between fine-root production, plant genetics, and leaf secondary compounds in Populus angustifolia, P. fremontii, and their hybrids. We measured fine-root (<2 mm) production and leaf chemistry along an experimental genetic gradient where leaf litter tannin concentrations are genetically based and exert strong control on net N mineralization in the soil. Fine-root production was highly correlated with leaf tannins and individual tree genetic composition based upon genetic marker estimates, suggesting potential genetic control of compensatory root growth in response to accumulation of foliar secondary compounds in soils. We suggest, based on previous studies in our system and the current study, that genes for tannin production could link foliar chemistry and root growth, which may provide a powerful setting for external feedbacks between above- and belowground processes.
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- D G Fischer
- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.
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Bais HP, Weir TL, Perry LG, Gilroy S, Vivanco JM. The role of root exudates in rhizosphere interactions with plants and other organisms. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2006; 57:233-66. [PMID: 16669762 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.57.032905.105159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1733] [Impact Index Per Article: 96.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The rhizosphere encompasses the millimeters of soil surrounding a plant root where complex biological and ecological processes occur. This review describes recent advances in elucidating the role of root exudates in interactions between plant roots and other plants, microbes, and nematodes present in the rhizosphere. Evidence indicating that root exudates may take part in the signaling events that initiate the execution of these interactions is also presented. Various positive and negative plant-plant and plant-microbe interactions are highlighted and described from the molecular to the ecosystem scale. Furthermore, methodologies to address these interactions under laboratory conditions are presented.
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- Harsh P Bais
- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Newark, Delaware 19711, USA
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Connolly MS, Sakihama Y, Phuntumart V, Jiang Y, Warren F, Mourant L, Morris PF. Heterologous expression of a pleiotropic drug resistance transporter from Phytophthora sojae in yeast transporter mutants. Curr Genet 2005; 48:356-65. [PMID: 16273370 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0015-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2005] [Revised: 07/24/2005] [Accepted: 07/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A system for the expression of an ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter from the soybean pathogen Phytophthora sojae is described. Pdr1, an ABC transporter with homology to the pleiotropic drug resistance (PDR) family of transporters, was cloned by primer walking from a P. sojae genomic library. Reverse transcriptase PCR assays showed that the transcript disappeared after encystment of zoospores and was not detected in hyphal germlings in dilute salts, in hyphae growing in liquid V8 media, or in tissue extracts from infected hypocotyls. BLAST analysis of Pdr1 against the P. sojae EST database also revealed that this gene was present only in zoospore libraries. Comparison of the number of hits to Pdr1 with that of a set of housekeeping genes revealed that Pdr1 was expressed at rates two- to threefold higher than other transcripts. To test the hypothesis that Pdr1p functions as a broad substrate membrane transporter, Pdr1 was transformed into yeast mutants deficient in several drug resistance transporters. Yeast mutants transformed with Pdr1 possessed partial drug resistance against only 5 of 17 chemically distinct compounds. Thus, when expressed in yeast, this transporter has a significantly narrower substrate specificity in comparison to the yeast transporters, Pdr5p, Yorlp, and Snq2p.
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Sanchez L, Weidmann S, Arnould C, Bernard AR, Gianinazzi S, Gianinazzi-Pearson V. Pseudomonas fluorescens and Glomus mosseae trigger DMI3-dependent activation of genes related to a signal transduction pathway in roots of Medicago truncatula. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 139:1065-77. [PMID: 16183836 PMCID: PMC1256018 DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.067603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2005] [Revised: 06/23/2005] [Accepted: 07/13/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Plant genes induced during early root colonization of Medicago truncatula Gaertn. J5 by a growth-promoting strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens (C7R12) have been identified by suppressive subtractive hybridization. Ten M. truncatula genes, coding proteins associated with a putative signal transduction pathway, showed an early and transient activation during initial interactions between M. truncatula and P. fluorescens, up to 8 d after root inoculation. Gene expression was not significantly enhanced, except for one gene, in P. fluorescens-inoculated roots of a Myc(-)Nod(-) genotype (TRV25) of M. truncatula mutated for the DMI3 (syn. MtSYM13) gene. This gene codes a Ca(2+) and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase, indicating a possible role of calcium in the cellular interactions between M. truncatula and P. fluorescens. When expression of the 10 plant genes was compared in early stages of root colonization by mycorrhizal and rhizobial microsymbionts, Glomus mosseae activated all 10 genes, whereas Sinorhizobium meliloti only activated one and inhibited four others. None of the genes responded to inoculation by either microsymbiont in roots of the TRV25 mutant. The similar response of the M. truncatula genes to P. fluorescens and G. mosseae points to common molecular pathways in the perception of the microbial signals by plant roots.
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- Lisa Sanchez
- Unité Mixte de Recherche, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique 1088/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5184/Université de Bourgogne Plante-Microbe-Environnement, Dijon, France
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Nakatsukasa-Akune M, Yamashita K, Shimoda Y, Uchiumi T, Abe M, Aoki T, Kamizawa A, Ayabe SI, Higashi S, Suzuki A. Suppression of root nodule formation by artificial expression of the TrEnodDR1 (coat protein of White clover cryptic virus 1) gene in Lotus japonicus. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2005; 18:1069-80. [PMID: 16255246 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-18-1069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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TrEnodDR1 (Trifolium repens early nodulin downregulation 1) encodes a coat protein of White clover cryptic virus 1. Its expression in white clover was down-regulated at the time when root nodules formed. We surmised that its artificial expression would interfere with root nodulation. Therefore, we investigated the effects of its artificial expression on the growth and root nodulation of Lotus japonicus (a model legume). Transformants were prepared by Agrobacterium spp.-mediated transformation. The growth of transformants was reduced and the number of root nodules per unit root length was greatly decreased relative to control. The concentration of endogenous abscisic acid (ABA), which controls nodulation, increased in plants containing TrEnodDR1. These phenotypes clearly were canceled by treatment with abamine, a specific inhibitor of ABA biosynthesis. The increase in endogenous ABA concentration explained the reduced stomatal aperture and the deformation of root hairs in response to inoculation of transgenic L. japonicus with Mesorhizobium loti. Transcriptome comparison between TrEnodDR1 transformants and control plants showed clearly enhanced expression levels of various defense response genes in transformants. These findings suggest that TrEnodDR1 suppresses nodulation by increasing the endogenous ABA concentration, perhaps by activating the plant's innate immune response. This is the first report of the suppression of nodulation by the artificial expression of a virus coat protein gene.
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Gunawardena U, Rodriguez M, Straney D, Romeo JT, VanEtten HD, Hawes MC. Tissue-specific localization of pea root infection by Nectria haematococca. Mechanisms and consequences. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 137:1363-74. [PMID: 15778461 PMCID: PMC1088327 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.056366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2004] [Revised: 02/15/2005] [Accepted: 02/19/2005] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Root infection in susceptible host species is initiated predominantly in the zone of elongation, whereas the remainder of the root is resistant. Nectria haematococca infection of pea (Pisum sativum) was used as a model to explore possible mechanisms influencing the localization of root infection. The failure to infect the root tip was not due to a failure to induce spore germination at this site, suppression of pathogenicity genes in the fungus, or increased expression of plant defense genes. Instead, exudates from the root tip induce rapid spore germination by a pathway that is independent of nutrient-induced germination. Subsequently, a factor produced during fungal infection and death of border cells at the root apex appears to selectively suppress fungal growth and prevent sporulation. Host-specific mantle formation in response to border cells appears to represent a previously unrecognized form of host-parasite relationship common to diverse species. The dynamics of signal exchange leading to mantle development may play a key role in fostering plant health, by protecting root meristems from pathogenic invasion.
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- Uvini Gunawardena
- Division of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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He J, Wang Z, Fang J. Issues and prospects of belowground ecology with special reference to global climate change. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03184277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Singh BK, Millard P, Whiteley AS, Murrell JC. Unravelling rhizosphere–microbial interactions: opportunities and limitations. Trends Microbiol 2004; 12:386-93. [PMID: 15276615 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2004.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The rhizosphere is a biologically active zone of the soil around plant roots that contains soil-borne microbes including bacteria and fungi. Plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere can be beneficial to the plant, the microbes or to neither of them. One of the major difficulties that plant biologists and microbiologists face when studying these interactions is that many groups of microbes that inhabit this zone are not cultivable in the laboratory. Recent developments in molecular biology methods are shedding some light on rhizospheric microbial diversity. This review discusses recent findings and future challenges in the study of plant-microbe interactions in the rhizosphere.
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- Brajesh K Singh
- Environmental Sciences, Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, UK.
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Suzuki A, Akune M, Kogiso M, Imagama Y, Osuki KI, Uchiumi T, Higashi S, Han SY, Yoshida S, Asami T, Abe M. Control of Nodule Number by the Phytohormone Abscisic Acid in the Roots of Two Leguminous Species. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 45:914-22. [PMID: 15295075 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pch107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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The effects of the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) on plant growth and root nodule formation were analyzed in Trifolium repense (white clover) and Lotus japonicus, which form indeterminate and determinate nodules, respectively. In T. repense, although the number of nodules formed after inoculation with Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain 4S (wild type) was slightly affected by exogenous ABA, those formed by strain H1(pC4S8), which forms ineffective nodules, were dramatically reduced 28 days after inoculation (DAI). At 14 and 21 DAI, the number of nodules formed with the wild-type strain was decreased by exogenous ABA. In L. japonicus, the number of nodules was also reduced by ABA treatment. Thus, exogenous ABA inhibits root nodule formation after inoculation with rhizobia. Observation of root hair deformation revealed that ABA blocked the step between root hair swelling and curling. When the ABA concentration in plants was decreased by using abamine, a specific inhibitor of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase, the number of nodules on lateral roots of abamine-treated L. japonicus increased dramatically, indicating that lower-than-normal concentrations of endogenous ABA enhance nodule formation. We hypothesize that the ABA concentration controls the number of root nodules.
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- Akihiro Suzuki
- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, 890-0065 Japan.
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All nutrients that plants absorb have to pass a region of intense interactions between roots, microorganisms and animals, termed the rhizosphere. Plants allocate a great portion of their photosynthetically fixed carbon to root-infecting symbionts, such asmycorrhizal fungi; another part is released as exudates fuelling mainly free-living rhizobacteria. Rhizobacteria are strongly top-down regulated by microfaunal grazers, particularly protozoa. Consequently, beneficial effects of protozoa on plant growth have been assigned to nutrients released from consumed bacterial biomass, that is, the 'microbial loop'. In recent years however, the recognition of bacterial communication networks, the common exchange of microbial signals with roots and the fact that these signals are used to enhance the efflux of carbon from roots have revolutionized our view of rhizosphere processes. Most importantly, effects of rhizobacteria on root architecture seem to be driven in large by protozoan grazers. Protozoan effects on plant root systems stand in sharp contrast to effects of mycorrhizal fungi. Because the regulation of root architecture is a key determinant of nutrient- and water-use efficiency in plants, protozoa provide a model system that may considerably advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying plant growth and community composition.
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- Michael Bonkowski
- Rhizosphere Ecology Group, Institut für Zoologie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 3, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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Bais HP, Park SW, Weir TL, Callaway RM, Vivanco JM. How plants communicate using the underground information superhighway. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2004; 9:26-32. [PMID: 14729216 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2003.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The rhizosphere is a densely populated area in which plant roots must compete with invading root systems of neighboring plants for space, water, and mineral nutrients, and with other soil-borne organisms, including bacteria and fungi. Root-root and root-microbe communications are continuous occurrences in this biologically active soil zone. How do roots manage to simultaneously communicate with neighboring plants, and with symbiotic and pathogenic organisms within this crowded rhizosphere? Increasing evidence suggests that root exudates might initiate and manipulate biological and physical interactions between roots and soil organisms, and thus play an active role in root-root and root-microbe communication.
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- Harsh Pal Bais
- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1173, USA
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Bouwmeester HJ, Matusova R, Zhongkui S, Beale MH. Secondary metabolite signalling in host-parasitic plant interactions. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2003; 6:358-64. [PMID: 12873531 DOI: 10.1016/s1369-5266(03)00065-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The parasitic weeds Orobanche and Striga spp. are a serious threat to agriculture in large parts of the world. The lifecycle of the parasitic weeds is closely regulated by the presence of their hosts, and secondary metabolites that are produced by host plants play an important role in this interaction. Model plants, such as Arabidopsis and maize mutant collections, have been increasingly used to study these chemical signals, especially those host-produced stimulants that induce the germination of parasite seeds.
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- Harro J Bouwmeester
- Plant Research International, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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