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Islam SNU, Kouser S, Hassan P, Asgher M, Shah AA, Khan NA. Gamma-aminobutyric acid interactions with phytohormones and its role in modulating abiotic and biotic stress in plants. STRESS BIOLOGY 2024; 4:36. [PMID: 39158750 PMCID: PMC11333426 DOI: 10.1007/s44154-024-00180-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 08/20/2024]
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a ubiquitous non-protein 4-carbon amino acid present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. It is conventionally recognized as a neurotransmitter in mammals and plays a crucial role in plants. The context of this review centers on the impact of GABA in mitigating abiotic stresses induced by climate change, such as drought, salinity, heat, and heavy metal exposure. Beyond its neurotransmitter role, GABA emerges as a key player in diverse metabolic processes, safeguarding plants against multifaceted abiotic as well as biotic challenges. This comprehensive exploration delves into the GABA biosynthetic pathway, its transport mechanisms, and its intricate interplay with various abiotic stresses. The discussion extends to the nuanced relationship between GABA and phytohormones during abiotic stress acclimation, offering insights into the strategic development of mitigation strategies against these stresses. The delineation of GABA's crosstalk with phytohormones underscores its pivotal role in formulating crucial strategies for abiotic stress alleviation in plants.
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- Syed Nazar Ul Islam
- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Botany, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, 185234, India
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- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Botany, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, 185234, India
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- School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, 185234, India
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- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Botany, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, 185234, India.
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- School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, 185234, India
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- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India.
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Hernandez-Escribano L, Morales Clemente MT, Fariña-Flores D, Raposo R. A delayed response in phytohormone signaling and production contributes to pine susceptibility to Fusarium circinatum. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2024; 24:727. [PMID: 39080528 PMCID: PMC11289988 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-024-05342-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 06/26/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024]
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BACKGROUND Fusarium circinatum is the causal agent of pine pitch canker disease, which affects Pinus species worldwide, causing significant economic and ecological losses. In Spain, two Pinus species are most affected by the pathogen; Pinus radiata is highly susceptible, while Pinus pinaster has shown moderate resistance. In F. circinatum-Pinus interactions, phytohormones are known to play a crucial role in plant defense. By comparing species with different degrees of susceptibility, we aimed to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms underlying resistance to the pathogen. For this purpose, we used an integrative approach by combining gene expression and metabolomic phytohormone analyses at 5 and 10 days post inoculation. RESULTS Gene expression and metabolite phytohormone contents suggested that the moderate resistance of P. pinaster to F. circinatum is determined by the induction of phytohormone signaling and hormone rearrangement beginning at 5 dpi, when symptoms are still not visible. Jasmonic acid was the hormone that showed the greatest increase by 5 dpi, together with the active gibberellic acid 4 and the cytokinin dehydrozeatin; there was also an increase in abscisic acid and salicylic acid by 10 dpi. In contrast, P. radiata hormonal changes were delayed until 10 dpi, when symptoms were already visible; however, this increase was not as high as that in P. pinaster. Indeed, in P. radiata, no differences in jasmonic acid or salicylic acid production were found. Gene expression analysis supported the hormonal data, since the activation of genes related to phytohormone synthesis was observed earlier in P. pinaster than in the susceptible P. radiata. CONCLUSIONS We determine that the moderate resistance of P. pinaster to F. circinatum is in part a result of early and strong activation of plant phytohormone-based defense responses before symptoms become visible. We suggest that jasmonic acid signaling and production are strongly associated with F. circinatum resistance. In contrast, P. radiata susceptibility was attributed to a delayed response to the fungus at the moment when symptoms were visible. Our results contribute to a better understanding of the phytohormone-based defense mechanism involved in the Pinus-F. circinatum interactions and provide insight into the development of new strategies for disease mitigation.
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- Laura Hernandez-Escribano
- Instituto de Ciencias Forestales (ICIFOR-INIA), CSIC, Carretera Coruña km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain.
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- Instituto de Ciencias Forestales (ICIFOR-INIA), CSIC, Carretera Coruña km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain
- Departamento de Biotecnología-Biología Vegetal, E.T.S. de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 28040, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Forestales (ICIFOR-INIA), CSIC, Carretera Coruña km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain.
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Singh P, St Clair JB, Lind BM, Cronn R, Wilhelmi NP, Feau N, Lu M, Vidakovic DO, Hamelin RC, Shaw DC, Aitken SN, Yeaman S. Genetic architecture of disease resistance and tolerance in Douglas-fir trees. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2024; 243:705-719. [PMID: 38803110 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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Understanding the genetic basis of how plants defend against pathogens is important to monitor and maintain resilient tree populations. Swiss needle cast (SNC) and Rhabdocline needle cast (RNC) epidemics are responsible for major damage of forest ecosystems in North America. Here we investigate the genetic architecture of tolerance and resistance to needle cast diseases in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) caused by two fungal pathogens: SNC caused by Nothophaeocryptopus gaeumannii, and RNC caused by Rhabdocline pseudotsugae. We performed case-control genome-wide association analyses and found disease resistance and tolerance in Douglas-fir to be polygenic and under strong selection. We show that stomatal regulation as well as ethylene and jasmonic acid pathways are important for resisting SNC infection, and secondary metabolite pathways play a role in tolerating SNC once the plant is infected. We identify a major transcriptional regulator of plant defense, ERF1, as the top candidate for RNC resistance. Our findings shed light on the highly polygenic architectures underlying fungal disease resistance and tolerance and have important implications for forestry and conservation as the climate changes.
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- Pooja Singh
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
- Aquatic Ecology & Evolution Division, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
- Department of Fish Ecology & Evolution, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Kastanienbaum, CH-6047, Switzerland
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- USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T1Z4, BC, Canada
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- USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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- Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service, Arizona Zone, Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, USA
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T1Z4, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T1Z4, BC, Canada
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T1Z4, BC, Canada
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- Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
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- Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T1Z4, BC, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
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Berrabah F, Benaceur F, Yin C, Xin D, Magne K, Garmier M, Gruber V, Ratet P. Defense and senescence interplay in legume nodules. PLANT COMMUNICATIONS 2024; 5:100888. [PMID: 38532645 PMCID: PMC11009364 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2024.100888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Revised: 02/05/2024] [Accepted: 03/23/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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Immunity and senescence play a crucial role in the functioning of the legume symbiotic nodules. The miss-regulation of one of these processes compromises the symbiosis leading to death of the endosymbiont and the arrest of the nodule functioning. The relationship between immunity and senescence has been extensively studied in plant organs where a synergistic response can be observed. However, the interplay between immunity and senescence in the symbiotic organ is poorly discussed in the literature and these phenomena are often mixed up. Recent studies revealed that the cooperation between immunity and senescence is not always observed in the nodule, suggesting complex interactions between these two processes within the symbiotic organ. Here, we discuss recent results on the interplay between immunity and senescence in the nodule and the specificities of this relationship during legume-rhizobium symbiosis.
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- Fathi Berrabah
- Faculty of Sciences, University Amar Telidji, 03000 Laghouat, Algeria; Research Unit of Medicinal Plants (RUMP), National Center of Biotechnology Research, CRBt, 25000 Constantine, Algeria.
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- Faculty of Sciences, University Amar Telidji, 03000 Laghouat, Algeria; Research Unit of Medicinal Plants (RUMP), National Center of Biotechnology Research, CRBt, 25000 Constantine, Algeria
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRAE, University of Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Université Paris Cité, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Key Laboratory of Soybean Biology in the Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRAE, University of Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Université Paris Cité, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRAE, University of Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Université Paris Cité, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRAE, University of Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Université Paris Cité, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRAE, University of Evry, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Université Paris Cité, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Silva E, Dantas R, Barbosa JC, Berlinck RGS, Fill T. Metabolomics approach to understand molecular mechanisms involved in fungal pathogen-citrus pathosystems. Mol Omics 2024; 20:154-168. [PMID: 38273771 DOI: 10.1039/d3mo00182b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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Citrus is a crucial crop with a significant economic impact globally. However, postharvest decay caused by fungal pathogens poses a considerable threat, leading to substantial financial losses. Penicillium digitatum, Penicillium italicum, Geotrichum citri-aurantii and Phyllosticta citricarpa are the main fungal pathogens, causing green mold, blue mold, sour rot and citrus black spot diseases, respectively. The use of chemical fungicides as a control strategy in citrus raises concerns about food and environmental safety. Therefore, understanding the molecular basis of host-pathogen interactions is essential to find safer alternatives. This review highlights the potential of the metabolomics approach in the search for bioactive compounds involved in the pathogen-citrus interaction, and how the integration of metabolomics and genomics contributes to the understanding of secondary metabolites associated with fungal virulence and the fungal infection mechanisms. Our goal is to provide a pipeline combining metabolomics and genomics that can effectively guide researchers to perform studies aiming to contribute to the understanding of the fundamental chemical and biochemical aspects of pathogen-host interactions, in order to effectively develop new alternatives for fungal diseases in citrus cultivation. We intend to inspire the scientific community to question unexplored biological systems, and to employ diverse analytical approaches and metabolomics techniques to address outstanding questions about the non-studied pathosystems from a chemical biology perspective.
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- Evandro Silva
- State University of Campinas, Institute of Chemistry, CEP, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil.
- University of São Paulo, Institute of Chemistry, CEP 13566-590, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- State University of Campinas, Institute of Chemistry, CEP, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil.
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- State University of Campinas, Institute of Chemistry, CEP, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil.
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- University of São Paulo, Institute of Chemistry, CEP 13566-590, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- State University of Campinas, Institute of Chemistry, CEP, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil.
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Nazarian-Firouzabadi F, Torres MDT, de la Fuente-Nunez C. Recombinant production of antimicrobial peptides in plants. Biotechnol Adv 2024; 71:108296. [PMID: 38042311 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2023.108296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 11/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/04/2023]
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Classical plant breeding methods are limited in their ability to confer disease resistance on plants. However, in recent years, advancements in molecular breeding and biotechnological have provided new approaches to overcome these limitations and protect plants from disease. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) constitute promising agents that may be able to protect against infectious agents. Recently, peptides have been recombinantly produced in plants at scale and low cost. Because AMPs are less likely than conventional antimicrobials to elicit resistance of pathogenic bacteria, they open up exciting new avenues for agricultural applications. Here, we review recent advances in the design and production of bioactive recombinant AMPs that can effectively protect crop plants from diseases.
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- Farhad Nazarian-Firouzabadi
- Production Engineering and Plant Genetics Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, P.O. Box, 465, Khorramabad, Iran.
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- Machine Biology Group, Departments of Psychiatry and Microbiology, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America; Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America; Penn Institute for Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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- Machine Biology Group, Departments of Psychiatry and Microbiology, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America; Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America; Penn Institute for Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America.
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Nawaz MA, Khalil HK, Azeem F, Ali MA, Pamirsky IE, Golokhvast KS, Yang SH, Atif RM, Chung G. In Silico Comparison of WRKY Transcription Factors in Wild and Cultivated Soybean and Their Co-expression Network Arbitrating Disease Resistance. Biochem Genet 2024:10.1007/s10528-024-10701-z. [PMID: 38411942 DOI: 10.1007/s10528-024-10701-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
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WRKY Transcription factors (TFs) play critical roles in plant defence mechanisms that are activated in response to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, information on the Glycine soja WRKYs (GsoWRKYs) is scarce. Owing to its importance in soybean breeding, here we identified putative WRKY TFs in wild soybean, and compared the results with Glycine max WRKYs (GmaWRKYs) by phylogenetic, conserved motif, and duplication analyses. Moreover, we explored the expression trends of WRKYs in G. max (oomycete, fungi, virus, bacteria, and soybean cyst nematode) and G. soja (soybean cyst nematode), and identified commonly expressed WRKYs and their co-expressed genes. We identified, 181 and 180 putative WRKYs in G. max and G. soja, respectively. Though the number of WRKYs in both studied species is almost the same, they differ in many ways, i.e., the number of WRKYs on corresponding chromosomes, conserved domain structures, WRKYGQK motif variants, and zinc-finger motifs. WRKYs in both species grouped in three major clads, i.e., I-III, where group-II had sub-clads IIa-IIe. We found that GsoWRKYs expanded mostly through segmental duplication. A large number of WRKYs were expressed in response to biotic stresses, i.e., Phakospora pachyrhizi, Phytoplasma, Heterodera glycines, Macrophomina phaseolina, and Soybean mosaic virus; 56 GmaWRKYs were commonly expressed in soybean plants infected with these diseases. Finally, 30 and 63 GmaWRKYs and GsoWRKYs co-expressed with 205 and 123 non-WRKY genes, respectively, indicating that WRKYs play essential roles in biotic stress tolerance in Glycine species.
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- Muhammad Amjad Nawaz
- Advanced Engineering School (Agrobiotek), Tomsk State University, Lenin Ave, 36, Tomsk Oblast, Russia, 634050.
- Center for Research in the Field of Materials and Technologies, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia.
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics / CAS-AFS, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Siberian Federal Scientific Centre of AgrobiotechnologyCentralnaya, Presidium, Krasnoobsk, Russia, 633501
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- Advanced Engineering School (Agrobiotek), Tomsk State University, Lenin Ave, 36, Tomsk Oblast, Russia, 634050
- Siberian Federal Scientific Centre of AgrobiotechnologyCentralnaya, Presidium, Krasnoobsk, Russia, 633501
- Laboratory of Supercritical Fluid Research and Application in Agrobiotechnology, Tomsk State University, Lenin Str. 36, Tomsk, Russia, 634050
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Yeosu Campus, Yeosu-si, 59626, South Korea
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics / CAS-AFS, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
- Precision Agriculture and Analytics Lab, National Centre in Big Data and Cloud Computing, Centre for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Yeosu Campus, Yeosu-si, 59626, South Korea.
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Tian J, Zhang J, Francis F. The role and pathway of VQ family in plant growth, immunity, and stress response. PLANTA 2023; 259:16. [PMID: 38078967 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-023-04292-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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MAIN CONCLUSION This review provides a detailed description of the function and mechanism of VQ family gene, which is helpful for further research and application of VQ gene resources to improve crops. Valine-glutamine (VQ) motif-containing proteins are a large class of transcriptional regulatory cofactors. VQ proteins have their own unique molecular characteristics. Amino acids are highly conserved only in the VQ domain, while other positions vary greatly. Most VQ genes do not contain introns and the length of their proteins is less than 300 amino acids. A majority of VQ proteins are predicted to be localized in the nucleus. The promoter of many VQ genes contains stress or growth related elements. Segment duplication and tandem duplication are the main amplification mechanisms of the VQ gene family in angiosperms and gymnosperms, respectively. Purification selection plays a crucial role in the evolution of many VQ genes. By interacting with WRKY, MAPK, and other proteins, VQ proteins participate in the multiple signaling pathways to regulate plant growth and development, as well as defense responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Although there have been some reports on the VQ gene family in plants, most of them only identify family members, with little functional verification, and there is also a lack of complete, detailed, and up-to-date review of research progress. Here, we comprehensively summarized the research progress of VQ genes that have been published so far, mainly including their molecular characteristics, biological functions, importance of VQ motif, and working mechanisms. Finally, the regulatory network and model of VQ genes were drawn, a precise molecular breeding strategy based on VQ genes was proposed, and the current problems and future prospects were pointed out, providing a powerful reference for further research and utilization of VQ genes in plant improvement.
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- Jinfu Tian
- Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium.
- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, 100081, China.
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- Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium
- Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, 100081, China
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- Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium
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Nehela Y, Killiny N. Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Accumulation Contributes to Citrus sinensis Response against ' Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus' via Modulation of Multiple Metabolic Pathways and Redox Status. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:3753. [PMID: 37960112 PMCID: PMC10650511 DOI: 10.3390/plants12213753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Revised: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Huanglongbing (HLB; also known as citrus greening) is the most destructive bacterial disease of citrus worldwide with no known sustainable cure yet. Herein, we used non-targeted metabolomics and transcriptomics to prove that γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) accumulation might influence the homeostasis of several metabolic pathways, as well as antioxidant defense machinery, and their metabolism-related genes. Overall, 41 metabolites were detected in 'Valencia' sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) leaf extract including 19 proteinogenic amino acids (PAA), 10 organic acids, 5 fatty acids, and 9 other amines (four phenolic amines and three non-PAA). Exogenous GABA application increased most PAA in healthy (except L-threonine, L-glutamine, L-glutamic acid, and L-methionine) and 'Candidatus L. asiaticus'-infected citrus plants (with no exception). Moreover, GABA accumulation significantly induced L-tryptophan, L-phenylalanine, and α-linolenic acid, the main precursors of auxins, salicylic acid (SA), and jasmonic acid (JA), respectively. Furthermore, GABA supplementation upregulated most, if not all, of amino acids, phenolic amines, phytohormone metabolism-related, and GABA shunt-associated genes in both healthy and 'Ca. L. asiaticus'-infected leaves. Moreover, although 'Ca. L. asiaticus' induced the accumulation of H2O2 and O2•- and generated strong oxidative stress in infected leaves, GABA possibly stimulates the activation of a multilayered antioxidative system to neutralize the deleterious effect of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and maintain redox status within infected leaves. This complex system comprises two major components: (i) the enzymatic antioxidant defense machinery (six POXs, four SODs, and CAT) that serves as the front line in antioxidant defenses, and (ii) the non-enzymatic antioxidant defense machinery (phenolic acids and phenolic amines) that works as a second defense line against 'Ca. L. asiaticus'-induced ROS in citrus infected leaves. Collectively, our findings suggest that GABA might be a promising alternative eco-friendly strategy that helps citrus trees battle HLB particularly, and other diseases in general.
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- Yasser Nehela
- Department of Plant Pathology, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 700 Experiment Station Rd., Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA;
- Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta 31527, Egypt
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, 700 Experiment Station Rd., Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA;
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Sangwan A, Gupta D, Singh OW, Roy A, Mukherjee SK, Mandal B, Singh N. Size variations of mesoporous silica nanoparticle control uptake efficiency and delivery of AC2-derived dsRNA for protection against tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2023; 42:1571-1587. [PMID: 37482559 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-023-03048-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE We report the size dependent uptake of dsRNA loaded MSNPs into the leaves and roots of Nicotiana benthamiana plants and accessed for their relative reduction in Tomato leaf curl New Delhi viral load. A non-GMO method of RNA interference (RNAi) has been recently in practice through direct delivery of double stranded RNA into the plant cells. Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus (ToLCNDV), a bipartitie begomovirus, is a significant viral pathogen of many crops in the Indian subcontinent. Conventional RNAi cargo delivery strategies for instance uses viral vectors and Agrobacterium-facilitated delivery, exhibiting specific host responses from the plant system. In the present study, we synthesized three different sizes of amine-functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles (amino-MSNPs) to mediate the delivery of dsRNA derived from the AC2 (dsAC2) gene of ToLCNDV and showed that these dsRNA loaded nanoparticles enabled effective reduction in viral load. Furthermore, we demonstrate that amino-MSNPs protected the dsRNA molecules from nuclease degradation, while the complex was efficiently taken up by the leaves and roots of Nicotiana benthamiana. The real time gene expression evaluation showed that plants treated with nanoparticles of different sizes ~ 10 nm (MSNPDEA), ~ 32 nm (MSNPTEA) and ~ 66 nm (MSNPNH3) showed five-, eleven- and threefold reduction of ToLCNDV in N. benthamiana, respectively compared to the plants treated with naked dsRNA. This work clearly demonstrates the size dependent internalization of amino-MSNPs and relative efficacy in transporting dsRNA into the plant system, which will be useful in convenient topical treatment to protect plants against their pathogens including viruses. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles loaded with FITC, checked for its uptake into Nicotiana benthamiana.
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- Anju Sangwan
- Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India
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- Advanced Centre for Plant Virology, Division of Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India.
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- Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India.
- Biomedical Engineering Unit, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110029, India.
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Li T, Liu R, Liu Z, Chang J, Li J. Effects of Intermittent Temperature and Humidity Regulation on Tomato Gray Mold. PLANT DISEASE 2023; 107:2335-2345. [PMID: 36627805 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-10-22-2339-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Temperature and humidity play an important role in plant-pathogen interactions. However, regulating the temperature and humidity specifically to inhibit the development of plant diseases remains unclear. In this study, we explored the influence of intermittent temperature and humidity variation on tomato gray mold. Intermittent regulation of temperature and humidity (increasing temperature with decreasing humidity for different periods within 24 h) inhibited the disease severity of plants and the infection process of Botrytis cinerea. The 4-h treatment (increasing temperature accompanied by decreasing humidity for 4 h and recovering for 4 h, and so on) effectively inhibited the development of tomato gray mold, reduced the biomass of B. cinerea, delayed the differentiation time of mycelia, and inhibited the accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in tomato leaves at the later stage of infection. The increased expressions of heat-shock protein (HSP) genes HSP20, HSP70, HSP90, BAG6, and BAG7 in tomato were mainly caused by environmental changes and environment-plant-pathogen interactions, and the increased expression of the latter was greater than that of the former in the 2-h (increasing temperature accompanied by decreasing humidity for 2 h and recovering for 2 h, and so on) and 4-h treatments. Pathogen infection induced the expression of defense-related genes in tomato, and the increase in the expressions of FLS2, FEI1, PI2, Pti5, and WRKY75 induced by B. cinerea in the 4-h treatment was greater than that under unregulated temperature and humidity conditions. In general, intermittent temperature and humidity variation can effectively inhibit the development of tomato gray mold, and the 4-h treatment had the best inhibitory effect.
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- Tianzhu Li
- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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Mashabela MD, Tugizimana F, Steenkamp PA, Piater LA, Dubery IA, Mhlongo MI. Metabolite profiling of susceptible and resistant wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars responding to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici infection. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 23:293. [PMID: 37264330 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04313-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) is an economically devasting disease that is prominent in cereal crops such as wheat (Triticum aestivum). The fungal pathogen can cause approximately 30-70% losses in crop productivity and yields. Pst has become difficult to manage due to its ease of transmission through wind dispersal over long distances, and intercontinental dispersal has been previously reported. The ease of transmission has resulted in further destruction because of new and more virulent strains infecting crops previously resistant to a different strain. RESULTS In this study, a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based untargeted metabolomics approach, in combination with multivariate data analytical tools, was used to elucidate the mechanistic nature of the defence systems of a Pst-resistant and a susceptible wheat cultivar infected with P. striiformis. We also investigated the time-dependant metabolic reconfiguration of infected plants over a four-week period. The untargeted metabolomic analysis revealed a time-course metabolic reprogramming involving phenylpropanoids (majority flavonoids), amino acids, lipids, benzoic acids, TCA cycle intermediates and benzoxazinoids responding to Pst infection. Interestingly, the results do not show a linear course for the decrease and increase (up-/down-regulation) of said classes of metabolites, but rather the up- or down-regulation of specific metabolites in response to the pathogen infection. The resistant Koonap cultivar had an abundance of phenolic compounds such as rutin, isoorintin-7-O-glucoside and luteolin-6-C-hexoside-O-hexoside. These compounds showed a decrease over time in control Koonap plants compared to an increase in Pst-infected plants. These metabolites were down-regulated in the susceptible Gariep cultivar, which could serve as biomarkers for plant responses to biotic stress and resistance against Pst. CONCLUSIONS Overall, an LC-MS-based metabolomics approach allowed for the metabolic profiling and analysis of the impact of plant-pathogen interactions on the overall plant metabolome and provided a real-time snapshot of the differential significant metabolic perturbations occurring in wheat plants responding to the Pst pathogen. The Pst-resistant Koonap cultivar showed a rapid accumulation of defence metabolites in response to pathogen infection compared to the susceptible Gariep cultivar. These findings provide insight into the mechanistic biochemical nature of plant-microbe interactions and the prospects of metabolic engineering for improved plant tolerance and resistance to biotic stresses.
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- Manamele Dannies Mashabela
- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa
- International Research and Development Division, Omnia Group, Ltd, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa
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- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics, Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa.
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Matsishina NV, Ermak MV, Kim IV, Fisenko PV, Sobko OA, Klykov AG, Emel'yanov AN. Allelochemical Interactions in the Trophic System « Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata Motschulsky- Solanum tuberosum Linneus». INSECTS 2023; 14:insects14050459. [PMID: 37233087 DOI: 10.3390/insects14050459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 04/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata is an intrinsic element in the agroecosystem of potato fields. The issues of relationships in the system "potato ladybird beetle-potato plant" have not yet been studied. To study the effect of potato varieties on the potato ladybird beetle, only hatched and active larvae with a hatching rate close to 100% were selected from a laboratory colony. Larvae of the first summer generation collected in potato fields were used in our study to determine the level of adrenaline in the bodies of insects, fresh potato leaves were used to study the content of glycoalkaloids, the content and activity of proteinase inhibitors. The larvae that fed on plants of varieties Belmonda, Queen Anne, Lilly, Dachny, Kazachok, Yubilyar, and Avgustin demonstrated the highest level of stress while the stress level in those that fed on variety Smak was the lowest. The damage inflicted by potato ladybird beetles on leaves of some studied potato varieties led to a progressive increase in the content of glycoalkaloids already within 24 h after the phytophages had been transferred. In most cases, the content of glycoalkoloids increased by 20% within five days. Potato ladybird beetles feeding on plants of different potato varieties caused a progressive increase in proteinase inhibitors (% of the control). Plants of variety Smak did not show a significant increase in the content of alkaloids in the herbage in response to the damage. A correlation was established between the mortality rate, the activity of proteinase inhibitors, the dynamics of glycoalkaloids, and the level of adrenaline, which could be formulated as follows: the higher the content of glycoalkaloids and the activity of proteinase inhibitors in the tissues of potato plants, the higher the level of stress in the potato ladybird beetles that feed on them.
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- Nathalia Valerievna Matsishina
- FSBSI «FSC of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Far East Named after A.K. Chaiki», Timiryazevsky stl., Volozhenina st., 30 B, 692539 Ussuriysk, Russia
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- FSBSI «FSC of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Far East Named after A.K. Chaiki», Timiryazevsky stl., Volozhenina st., 30 B, 692539 Ussuriysk, Russia
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- FSBSI «FSC of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Far East Named after A.K. Chaiki», Timiryazevsky stl., Volozhenina st., 30 B, 692539 Ussuriysk, Russia
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- FSBSI «FSC of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Far East Named after A.K. Chaiki», Timiryazevsky stl., Volozhenina st., 30 B, 692539 Ussuriysk, Russia
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- FSBSI «FSC of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Far East Named after A.K. Chaiki», Timiryazevsky stl., Volozhenina st., 30 B, 692539 Ussuriysk, Russia
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- FSBSI «FSC of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Far East Named after A.K. Chaiki», Timiryazevsky stl., Volozhenina st., 30 B, 692539 Ussuriysk, Russia
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- FSBSI «FSC of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Far East Named after A.K. Chaiki», Timiryazevsky stl., Volozhenina st., 30 B, 692539 Ussuriysk, Russia
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Kozyulina PY, Pavlova OA, Kantsurova (Rudaya) ES, Bovin AD, Shirobokova SA, Dolgikh AV, Dymo AM, Dolgikh EA. Transcriptomic analysis of pea plant responses to chitooligosaccharides' treatment revealed stimulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1092013. [PMID: 36968377 PMCID: PMC10030943 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1092013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Since chitooligosaccharides (COs) are water-soluble, biodegradable and nontoxic compounds, their application may be considered as a promising plant-protecting agent. However, the molecular and cellular modes of action of COs are not yet understood. In this study, transcriptional changes in pea roots treated with COs were investigated via RNA sequencing. Pea roots treated with the deacetylated CO8-DA at low concentration (10-5 М) were harvested 24 h after treatment and their expression profiles were compared against medium-treated control plants. We observed 886 differentially expressed genes (fold change ≥ 1; p-value < 0.05) 24 h after treatment with CO8-DA. Gene Ontology term over-representation analysis allowed us to identify the molecular functions of the genes activated in response to CO8-DA treatment and their relation to biological processes. Our findings suggest that calcium signaling regulators and MAPK cascade play a key role in pea plant responses to treatment. Here we found two MAPKKKs, the PsMAPKKK5 and PsMAPKKK20, which might function redundantly in the CO8-DA-activated signaling pathway. In accordance with this suggestion, we showed that PsMAPKKK knockdown decreases resistance to pathogenic Fusarium culmorum fungi. Therefore, analysis showed that typical regulators of intracellular signal transduction pathways involved in triggering of plant responses via CERK1 receptors to chitin/COs in Arabidopsis and rice may also be recruited in legume pea plants.
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Li MY, Zhang YZ, Zhang ZY, Zhang YH, Ren QQ, Jin S. Differences in transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of metabolites of shoots on tea plants of different ages and relevant regulatory network. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 13:910895. [PMID: 36937142 PMCID: PMC10019279 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.910895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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To investigate differences in fresh leaves of tea plants at different ages in gene expression, metabolism, and dried tea quality, and to provide references to a deep exploration on metabolite differential accumulation of fresh leaves of tea plants at different ages as well as the regulation mechanism, two groups of fresh leaves from tea plants at different ages (group JP: 20-, 200-, and 1,200-year tea plants; group YX: 50-, 100-, and 400-year tea plants) were chosen as materials, and their differences in gene expression, metabolites, and metabolic regulatory network were investigated by transcriptomics and metabolomics. A total of 12,706 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened from the fresh tea leaves in the JP group, of which tea-20 vs. tea-200 had the largest number of DEGs, up to 9,041 (4,459 down-regulated genes, 4,582 up-regulated genes). A total of 644 common genes in the fresh leaves of three different ages of tea plants in the JP group were differentially expressed. A total of 8,971 DEGs were screened from the fresh leaf samples of tea plants in the YX group, of which the number of DEGs obtained in the tea-50 vs. tea-400 comparison combination was the largest with a total of 3,723 (1,722 up-regulated genes and 2,001 down-regulated genes). A total of 147 common genes were differentially expressed in the fresh leaves of three different tree ages in the YX group. The pathway enrichment analysis showed that most up-regulated DEGs and their related metabolic pathways were similar in the two groups, and that the metabolic pathways of common significant enrichment included flavonoid biosynthesis, phenylpropane biosynthesis, carbon metabolism, amino acid biosynthesis, and plant pathogen interaction. The metabolomics results showed that 72 and 117 different metabolites were screened from the JP and YX groups, respectively. Most of the different metabolites in the two groups were flavonoids, phenolic acids, amino acids, and their derivatives. Among them, the number of down-regulated flavonoids in older tea plants is generally higher than the number of up-regulated flavonoids. Moreover, according to the sensory evaluation results of dried tea of fresh leaves from tea plants of different ages, tea-1200 and tea-400 showed the highest sensory evaluation scores in their groups. With increase in plant age, the fragrance of the tea was more elegant, and it changed from a dense scent to a faint scent; the tea tasted sweet and its freshness increased, while the sense of astringency was weakened and the concentration declined. Therefore, the quality difference of tea of different tree ages is mainly related to secondary metabolic pathways such as the flavonoid biosynthesis pathway. With increase in tea age, a large number of gene expression in the flavonoid biosynthesis pathway is down-regulated, which reduces the content of bitter flavonoid substances in fresh leaves and makes tea soup more mellow.
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- Meng Yuan Li
- Fujian Key Laboratory of Tea Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Key Laboratory of Tea Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Key Laboratory of Tea Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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- Fujian Key Laboratory of Tea Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
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Ge W, Zhang J, Feng H, Wang Y, Ji R. The root meristem growth factor BrRGF6 positively regulates Chinese cabbage to infection of clubroot disease caused by Plasmodiophora Brassicae. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2023; 10:uhac292. [PMID: 36938571 PMCID: PMC10018783 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhac292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Chinese cabbage has a high annual demand in China. However, clubroot disease caused by the infection of Plasmodiophora brassicae seriously affects its yield. Transcriptome analysis identified a root meristem growth factor 6 (BrRGF6) as significantly up-regulated in Chinese cabbage roots infected with Plasmodiophora brassicae. Quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction and in situ hybridization analysis showed higher BrRGF6 expression in susceptible materials than in resistant materials. After Plasmodiophora brassicae infection, BrRGF6 expression was significantly up-regulated, especially in susceptible materials. Gene function analysis showed that the roots of Arabidopsis mutant rgf6 grew faster than the wild-type, and delayed the infection progress of Plasmodiophora brassicae. A Protein, nuclear transcription factor Y subunit C (BrNF-YC), was screened from yeast two-hybrid library of Chinese cabbage induced by Plasmodiophora brassicae, and verified to interact with BrRGF6 by yeast two-hybrid co-transfer. Yeast one-hybrid and β-Glucuronidase activity analysis showed that BrNF-YC could directly bind to and strongly activate the promoter of BrRGF6. Transgenic verification showed that BrRGF6 or BrNF-YC silenced Chinese cabbage significantly decreased the expression of BrRGF6, accelerated root development, and reduced incidence of clubroot disease. However, after overexpression of BrRGF6 or BrNF-YC, the phenotype showed a reverse trend. Therefore, BrRGF6 silencing accelerated root growth and enhanced resistance to clubroot disease, which was regulated by BrNF-YC.
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- Wenjie Ge
- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding for Cruciferous Vegetable Crops, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110866, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding for Cruciferous Vegetable Crops, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110866, China
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- Liaoning Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding for Cruciferous Vegetable Crops, College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110866, China
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- Vegetable Research Institute, Liaoning Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning 110161, China
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- Corresponding author. E-mail: ; 13190049699
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Li T, Zhou J, Yuan Z, Liu R, Li J. Intermittent Changes in Temperature and Humidity Repress Gray Mold in Tomato. PLANT DISEASE 2023; 107:306-314. [PMID: 35802011 DOI: 10.1094/pdis-03-22-0607-re] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Environmental temperature and humidity play a vital role in plant-pathogen interactions, which profoundly affect the occurrence of crop diseases. However, the specific methods and mechanisms through which intermittent changes in temperature and humidity mitigate plant diseases remain unclear. In this study, six temperature and humidity combinations were set, the disease severity of tomatoes and biomass of Botrytis cinerea were analyzed, and the infection process of pathogens was observed using an optical microscope. Furthermore, dual RNA-seq analysis was performed to explore the interactions between plants and pathogens. Results showed that the 24 hours postinoculation (hpi)-12 h day (regulation was performed at 24 hpi for 12 h after inoculation during the day) treatment reduced the gray mold severity and biomass of B. cinerea in plants by the greatest amount and effectively inhibited the growth of mycelia. The 24 hpi-12 h day treatment induced the upregulation of light reactions, photorespiration, and Calvin cycle-related genes in tomatoes, whereas fungal genes related to the biosynthesis of sesquiterpene botrydial and polyketide botcinic acid were downregulated. Overall, we identified the optimal combination of temperature and humidity changes to inhibit the development of tomato gray mold and preliminarily explored the interactions between tomato and B. cinerea under temperature and humidity changes. This work has practical importance and provides a theoretical basis for the ecological control of plant diseases.
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- Tianzhu Li
- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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Legumes Regulate Symbiosis with Rhizobia via Their Innate Immune System. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24032800. [PMID: 36769110 PMCID: PMC9917363 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24032800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Plant roots are constantly exposed to a diverse microbiota of pathogens and mutualistic partners. The host's immune system is an essential component for its survival, enabling it to monitor nearby microbes for potential threats and respond with a defence response when required. Current research suggests that the plant immune system has also been employed in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis as a means of monitoring different rhizobia strains and that successful rhizobia have evolved to overcome this system to infect the roots and initiate nodulation. With clear implications for host-specificity, the immune system has the potential to be an important target for engineering versatile crops for effective nodulation in the field. However, current knowledge of the interacting components governing this pathway is limited, and further research is required to build on what is currently known to improve our understanding. This review provides a general overview of the plant immune system's role in nodulation. With a focus on the cycles of microbe-associated molecular pattern-triggered immunity (MTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI), we highlight key molecular players and recent findings while addressing the current knowledge gaps in this area.
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Li T, Zhou J, Li J. Combined effects of temperature and humidity on the interaction between tomato and Botrytis cinerea revealed by integration of histological characteristics and transcriptome sequencing. HORTICULTURE RESEARCH 2023; 10:uhac257. [PMID: 36778184 PMCID: PMC9907048 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhac257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The environment significantly impacts the interaction between plants and pathogens, thus remarkably affecting crop disease occurrence. However, the detailed combined mechanisms of temperature and humidity influencing this interaction remain unclear. In this study, the interaction between tomato and Botrytis cinerea in various temperature and humidity conditions was analyzed by histological observation and a dual RNA-seq approach. Results showed that low humidity was not favorable for mycelial growth, resulting in infection failure. Both high and low temperatures at high humidity successfully inhibited pathogenic infection and disease incidence in the tomato plants, thus enhancing their resistance to B. cinerea. The high temperature and high humidity (HH) treatment induced the upregulation of light reaction genes, increased the net photosynthetic rate, and expanded the chloroplast morphology of infected tomatoes. The HH treatment also inhibited the expression of cell cycle-related genes of B. cinerea, interfered with conidial germination and mycelial growth, and damaged mycelial cell structure. Low temperature and high humidity (LH) treatment induced the expression of cell wall modification genes and remodeled the cell wall morphology of tomatoes in response to B. cinerea. In addition, the downregulated fungal catabolic genes and the abnormal increase in electron density of mycelial cells under LH treatment subsequently reduced the infection ability of B. cinerea. These results further explain the coupled effects of temperature and humidity on plant defenses and pathogen virulence, and provide a potential means to control gray mold.
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- Tianzhu Li
- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
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Lu H, Shen Z, Xu Y, Wu L, Hu D, Song R, Song B. Immune Mechanism of Ethylicin-Induced Resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in Rice. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2023; 71:288-299. [PMID: 36591973 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.2c07385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Ethylicin (ET) was reported to be promising in the control of rice bacterial leaf blight (BLB) caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo). The detailed mechanism for this process remains unknown. Disclosed here is an in-depth study on the action mode of ET to Xoo. Through plant physiological and biochemical analysis, it was found that ET could inhibit the proliferation of Xoo by increasing the content of defense enzymes and chlorophyll in rice (Oryza sativa ssp. Japonica cv. Nipponbare). Label-free quantitative proteomic analysis showed that ET affected the rice abscisic acid (ABA) signal pathway and made the critical differential calcium-dependent protein kinase 24 (OsCPK24) more active. In addition, the biological function of OsCPK24 as a mediator for rice resistance to Xoo was determined through the anti-Xoo phenotypic test of OsCPK24 transgenic rice and the affinity analysis of the OsCPK24 recombinant protein in vitro and ET. This study revealed the molecular mechanism of ET-induced resistance to Xoo in rice via OsCPK24, which provided a basis for the development of new bactericides based on the OsCPK24 protein.
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- Hongxia Lu
- National Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang550025, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang550025, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang550025, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang550025, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang550025, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang550025, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang550025, China
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Fartash AH, Ben C, Mazurier M, Ebrahimi A, Ghalandar M, Gentzbittel L, Rickauer M. Medicago truncatula quantitative resistance to a new strain of Verticillium alfalfae from Iran revealed by a genome-wide association study. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1125551. [PMID: 37123855 PMCID: PMC10140629 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1125551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Verticillium wilt is a major threat to many crops, among them alfalfa (Medicago sativa). The model plant Medicago truncatula, a close relative of alfalfa was used to study the genetic control of resistance towards a new Verticillium alfalfae isolate. The accidental introduction of pathogen strains through global trade is a threat to crop production and such new strains might also be better adapted to global warming. Isolates of V. alfalfae were obtained from alfalfa fields in Iran and characterized. The Iranian isolate AF1 was used in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) involving 242 accessions from the Mediterranean region. Root inoculations were performed with conidia at 25°C and symptoms were scored regularly. Maximum Symptom Score and Area under Disease Progess Curve were computed as phenotypic traits to be used in GWAS and for comparison to a previous study with French isolate V31.2 at 20°C. This comparison showed high correlation with a shift to higher susceptibility, and similar geographical distribution of resistant and susceptible accessions to AF1 at 25°C, with resistant accessions mainly in the western part. GWAS revealed 30 significant SNPs linked to resistance towards isolate AF1. None of them were common to the previous study with isolate V31.2 at 20°C. To confirm these loci, the expression of nine underlying genes was studied. All genes were induced in roots following inoculation, in susceptible and resistant plants. However, in resistant plants induction was higher and lasted longer. Taken together, the use of a new pathogen strain and a shift in temperature revealed a completely different genetic control compared to a previous study that demonstrated the existence of two major QTLs. These results can be useful for Medicago breeding programs to obtain varieties better adapted to future conditions.
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- Amir Hossein Fartash
- Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse Institut National Polytechnique, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse Institut National Polytechnique, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France
- Project Center for Agro Technologies, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse Institut National Polytechnique, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France
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- Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Plant Protection Department, Markazi Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Arak, Iran
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- Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse Institut National Polytechnique, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France
- Project Center for Agro Technologies, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse Institut National Polytechnique, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France
- *Correspondence: Martina Rickauer,
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Reilly A, Feechan A. The endosome as an effector target to mediate plant immunity? JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2023; 74:12-15. [PMID: 36563103 PMCID: PMC9786820 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erac460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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This article comments on:Liao W, Nielsen ME, Pedersen C, Xie W, Thordal-Christensen H. 2023. Barley endosomal MONENSIN SENSITIVITY1 is a target of the powdery mildew effector CSEP0162 and plays a role in plant immunity. Journal of Experimental Botany 74, 118–129.
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- Aisling Reilly
- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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- School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
- Institute for Life and Earth Sciences, School of Energy, Geosciences, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
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Xiang G, Fu Q, Li G, Liu R, Liu G, Yin X, Chen T, Xu Y. The cytosolic iron-sulphur cluster assembly mechanism in grapevine is one target of a virulent Crinkler effector from Plasmopara viticola. MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY 2022; 23:1792-1806. [PMID: 36071584 PMCID: PMC9644279 DOI: 10.1111/mpp.13266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2022] [Revised: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Grapevine downy mildew is one of the most devastating diseases in grape production worldwide, but its pathogenesis remains largely unknown. A thorough understanding of the interaction between grapevine and the causal agent, Plasmopara viticola, is helpful to develop alternative disease control measures. Effector proteins that could be secreted to the interaction interface by pathogens are responsible for the susceptibility of host plants. In this study, a Crinkler effector, named PvCRN17, which is from P. viticola and showed virulent effects towards Nicotiana benthamiana previously, was further investigated. Consistently, PvCRN17 showed a virulent effect on grapevine plants. Protein-protein interaction experiments identified grapevine VAE7L1 (Vitis protein ASYMMETRIC LEAVES 1/2 ENHANCER 7-Like 1) as one target of PvCRN17. VAE7L1 was found to interact with VvCIA1 and VvAE7, thus it may function in the cytosolic iron-sulphur cluster assembly (CIA) pathway. Transient expression of VAE7L1 in Vitis riparia and N. benthamiana leaves enhanced the host resistance to oomycete pathogens. Downstream of the CIA pathway in grapevine, three iron-sulphur (Fe-S) proteins showed an enhancing effect on the disease resistance of N. benthamiana. Competitive co-immunoprecipitation assay showed PvCRN17 could compete with VvCIA1 to bind with VAE7L1 and VvAE7. Moreover, PvCRN17 and VAE7L1 were colocalized at the plasma membrane of the plant cell. To conclude, after intruding into the grapevine cell, PvCRN17 would compete with VCIA1 to bind with VAE7L1 and VAE7, demolishing the CIA Fe-S cluster transfer complex, interrupting the maturation of Fe-S proteins, to suppress Fe-S proteins-mediated defence responses.
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- Gaoqing Xiang
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid AreasCollege of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest ChinaMinistry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- College of HorticultureNorthwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid AreasCollege of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest ChinaMinistry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- College of HorticultureNorthwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid AreasCollege of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest ChinaMinistry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- College of HorticultureNorthwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid AreasCollege of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest ChinaMinistry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- College of HorticultureNorthwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid AreasCollege of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest ChinaMinistry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- College of HorticultureNorthwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid AreasCollege of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest ChinaMinistry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- College of HorticultureNorthwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid AreasCollege of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest ChinaMinistry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- College of HorticultureNorthwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid AreasCollege of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest ChinaMinistry of Agriculture, College of Horticulture, Northwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
- College of HorticultureNorthwest A & F UniversityYanglingChina
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Lopes da Silva F, Aquino EN, Costa da Cunha D, Vieira Hamann PR, Magalhães TB, Steindorff AS, Ulhoa CJ, Noronha EF. Analysis of Trichoderma harzianum TR 274 secretome to assign candidate proteins involved in symbiotic interactions with Phaseolus vulgaris. BIOCATALYSIS AND AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bcab.2022.102380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Samaradivakara SP, Chen H, Lu Y, Li P, Kim Y, Tsuda K, Mine A, Day B. Overexpression of NDR1 leads to pathogen resistance at elevated temperatures. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 235:1146-1162. [PMID: 35488494 PMCID: PMC9321970 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Abiotic and biotic environments influence a myriad of plant-related processes, including growth, development, and the establishment and maintenance of interaction(s) with microbes. In the case of the latter, elevated temperature has been shown to be a key factor that underpins host resistance and pathogen virulence. In this study, we elucidate a role for Arabidopsis NON-RACE-SPECIFIC DISEASE RESISTANCE1 (NDR1) by exploiting effector-triggered immunity to define the regulation of plant host immunity in response to both pathogen infection and elevated temperature. We generated time-series RNA sequencing data of WT Col-0, an NDR1 overexpression line, and ndr1 and ics1-2 mutant plants under elevated temperature. Not surprisingly, the NDR1-overexpression line showed genotype-specific gene expression changes related to defense response and immune system function. The results described herein support a role for NDR1 in maintaining cell signaling during simultaneous exposure to elevated temperature and avirulent pathogen stressors.
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- Saroopa P. Samaradivakara
- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Plant Resilience InstituteMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Graduate Program in Genetics and Genome SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Graduate Program in Molecular Plant SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Institute of BiochemistryNational Chung Hsing UniversityTaichung402Taiwan
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Department of Plant BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural MicrobiologyHubei Hongshan LaboratoryHubei Key Lab of Plant PathologyCollege of Plant Science and TechnologyHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan430070China
- Shenzhen Institute of Nutrition and HealthHuazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan430070China
- Shenzhen BranchGuangdong Laboratory of Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsAgricultural Genomics Institute at ShenzhenChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesShenzhen518120China
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- Laboratory of Plant PathologyGraduate School of AgricultureKyoto UniversityKyoto606‐8502Japan
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- Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Plant Resilience InstituteMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Graduate Program in Genetics and Genome SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
- Graduate Program in Molecular Plant SciencesMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI48824USA
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Nidhi, Kumar P, Pathania D, Thakur S, Sharma M. Environment-mediated mutagenetic interference on genetic stabilization and circadian rhythm in plants. Cell Mol Life Sci 2022; 79:358. [PMID: 35687153 PMCID: PMC11072124 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-022-04368-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Revised: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Many mortal organisms on this planet have developed the potential to merge all internal as well as external environmental cues to regulate various processes running inside organisms and in turn make them adaptive to the environment through the circadian clock. This moving rotator controls processes like activation of hormonal, metabolic, or defense pathways, initiation of flowering at an accurate period, and developmental processes in plants to ensure their stability in the environment. All these processes that are under the control of this rotating wheel can be changed either by external environmental factors or by an unpredictable phenomenon called mutation that can be generated by either physical mutagens, chemical mutagens, or by internal genetic interruption during metabolic processes, which alters normal functionality of organisms like innate immune responses, entrainment of the clock, biomass reduction, chlorophyll formation, and hormonal signaling, despite its fewer positive roles in plants like changing plant type, loss of vernalization treatment to make them survivable in different latitudes, and defense responses during stress. In addition, with mutation, overexpression of gene components sometimes supresses mutation effect and promote normal circadian genes abundance in the cell, while sometimes it affects circadian functionality by generating arrhythmicity and shows that not only mutation but overexpression also effects normal functional activities of plant. Therefore, this review mainly summarizes the role of each circadian clock genes in regulating rhythmicity, and shows that how circadian outputs are controlled by mutations as well as overexpression phenomenon.
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- Nidhi
- School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Solan, 173212, India
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- Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharmshala, India
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- School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Solan, 173212, India
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry and Biotechnology, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
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- School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Solan, 173212, India.
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Li WJ, Wu N, Chen C, Zhao YP, Hou YX. Identification and expression analysis of arabinogalactan protein genes in cotton reveal the function of GhAGP15 in Verticillium dahliae resistance. Gene 2022; 822:146336. [PMID: 35182675 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Revised: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Verticillium wilt, primarily caused by the fungal pathogen Verticillium dahliae, is a serious disease in cotton. Arabinogalactan proteins (AGPs), a class of hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins, have been widely implicated in plant growth and environmental adaptation. The purpose of this study is to identify and characterize AGP members in cotton plants and explore their roles in responding to environmental stressors. In total, 65 GhAGP members were identified in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), along with 43, 35, and 37 AGP members that were also identified in G. barbadense, G. arboreum, and G. raimondii, respectively. According to gene structure and protein domains analysis, GhAGP genes in upland cotton are highly conserved. Meanwhile, tandem duplication events have occurred frequently throughout cotton's evolutionary history. Expression analysis showed that GhAGP genes were widely expressed during growth and development and in response to abiotic stressors. Many cis-elements related to hormonal responses and environmental stressors were detected in GhAGP promoter regions. GhAGP genes participate in responding to cold, drought, and salt stress, and were sensitive to ET signaling. Furthermore, the expression level of GhAGP15 was elevated during V. dahliae infection and resistance against V. dahliae in upland cotton was significantly weakened by silencing GhAGP15 using a virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) approach. Our results further suggest that the function of GhAGP15 in V. dahliae resistance might be involved in regulation of the JA, SA, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) pathways. The comprehensive analysis of AGP genes in cotton performed in this study provides a basic framework for further functional research of these genes.
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- Wen-Jie Li
- Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Henan, Zhengzhou 450001, China; State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang 455000, China.
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- Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Henan, Zhengzhou 450001, China; State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang 455000, China.
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- Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Henan, Zhengzhou 450001, China; State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang 455000, China.
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- Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Henan, Zhengzhou 450001, China; State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang 455000, China.
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- Zhengzhou Research Base, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, School of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Henan, Zhengzhou 450001, China; College of Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
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Venkat A, Muneer S. Role of Circadian Rhythms in Major Plant Metabolic and Signaling Pathways. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:836244. [PMID: 35463437 PMCID: PMC9019581 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.836244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Plants require an endogenous regulatory network and mechanism to cope with diurnal environmental changes and compensate for their sessile nature. Plants use the circadian clock to anticipate diurnal changes. Circadian rhythm predicts a 24-h cycle with 16 h of light and 8 h of darkness in response to abiotic and biotic factors as well as the appropriate temperature. For a plant's fitness, proper growth, and development, these rhythms synchronize the diurnal photoperiodic changes. Input pathway, central oscillator, and output pathway are the three components that make up the endogenous clock. There are also transcriptional and translational feedback loops (TTFLs) in the clock, which are dependent on the results of gene expression. Several physiological processes, such as stress acclimatization, hormone signaling, morphogenesis, carbon metabolism, and defense response, are currently being investigated for their interactions with the circadian clock using phenotypic, genomic, and metabolic studies. This review examines the role of circadian rhythms in the regulation of plant metabolic pathways, such as photosynthesis and carbon metabolism, as well as developmental and degenerative processes, such as flowering and senescence. Furthermore, we summarized signaling pathways related to circadian rhythms, such as defense response and gene regulatory pathways.
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- Ajila Venkat
- Horticulture and Molecular Physiology Lab, School of Agricultural Innovations and Advanced Learning, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
- School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
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- Horticulture and Molecular Physiology Lab, School of Agricultural Innovations and Advanced Learning, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
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MicroRNA-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of Pinus pinaster response and resistance to pinewood nematode. Sci Rep 2022; 12:5160. [PMID: 35338210 PMCID: PMC8956650 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09163-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the parasitic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, or pinewood nematode (PWN), is a serious threat to pine forests in Europe. Pinus pinaster is highly susceptible to the disease and it is currently the most affected European pine species. In this work, we investigated the role of small RNAs (sRNAs) in regulating P. pinaster–PWN interaction in an early stage of infection. After performing an artificial PWN inoculation assay, we have identified 105 plant microRNAs (miRNAs) responsive to PWN. Based on their predicted targets, part of these miRNAs was associated with roles in jasmonate-response pathway, ROS detoxification, and terpenoid biosynthesis. Furthermore, by comparing resistant and susceptible plants, eight miRNAs with putative functions in plant defence and resistance to PWN have been identified. Finally, we explored the possibility of bidirectional trans-kingdom RNA silencing, identifying several P. pinaster genes putatively targeted by PWN miRNAs, which was supported by degradome analysis. Targets for P. pinaster miRNAs were also predicted in PWN, suggesting a role for trans-kingdom miRNA transfer and gene silencing both in PWN parasitism as in P. pinaster resistance to PWD. Our results provide new insights into previously unexplored roles of sRNA post-transcriptional regulation in P. pinaster response and resistance to PWN.
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Roy T, Bandopadhyay A, Paul C, Majumdar S, Das N. Role of Plasmid in Pesticide Degradation and Metal Tolerance in Two Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria Bacillus cereus (NCIM 5557) and Bacillus safensis (NCIM 5558). Curr Microbiol 2022; 79:106. [PMID: 35157142 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-022-02793-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Disha A (Bacillus cereus) and Disha B (Bacillus safensis) were isolated from pesticide-infested agricultural field and showed tolerance against pesticides, heavy metals, and antibiotics. The isolates exhibited PGPR activities in vitro as well as in field conditions in lentil (Lens culinaris) and cow pea (Vigna unguiculata). Both the Bacillus species could not be grown in mineral salt medium but efficiently grown in the media supplemented with pesticide (imidacloprid/carbendazim) demonstrating the utilization of pesticide as carbon/nitrogen source. The HPLC studies exhibited the pesticide (imidacloprid/carbendazim) degradation by both the bacteria. B. safensis showed better degradation of carbendazim (88.93%) and imidacloprid (82.48%) than that of B. cereus 78.07% and 49.12%, respectively. The bacterial isolates showed high concentration of heavy metal tolerance viz. lead, molybdenum, cadmium, copper, cobalt, and zinc, except mercury. Both the bacteria possessed single plasmid. The plasmid-cured isolates of B. cereus did not tolerate any pesticide, whereas that of B. safensis tolerated all the pesticides, like wild strains. The plasmid curing experiments did not affect the heavy metal tolerance ability of both the bacteria indicating the genomic nature of heavy metal tolerance genes, whereas pesticide resistance genes are plasmid-dependent in B. cereus but genomic in B. safensis.
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- Tina Roy
- Department of Botany, University of Gour Banga, Malda, W.B., 732103, India.,Department of Botany, Barasat Government College, 24 Parganas (N), Kolkata, W.B., 700124, India
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- Department of Botany, Barasat Government College, 24 Parganas (N), Kolkata, W.B., 700124, India
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- Department of Botany, Barasat Government College, 24 Parganas (N), Kolkata, W.B., 700124, India.,Department of Microbiology, St. Xavier's College, Park Street, Kolkata, 700016, India
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- Department of Botany, University of Gour Banga, Malda, W.B., 732103, India
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- Department of Botany, Barasat Government College, 24 Parganas (N), Kolkata, W.B., 700124, India.
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Understanding the Various Strategies for the Management of Fungal Pathogens in Crop Plants in the Current Scenario. Fungal Biol 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8877-5_25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Overexpression of chitinase in the endophyte Phomopsis liquidambaris enhances wheat resistance to Fusarium graminearum. Fungal Genet Biol 2021; 158:103650. [PMID: 34923123 DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2021.103650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Revised: 11/26/2021] [Accepted: 12/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a disease that affects wheat crops worldwide and is caused by Fusarium graminearum. Effective and safe strategies for the prevention and treatment of the disease are very limited. Phomopsis liquidambaris, a universal endophyte, can colonize wheat. Two engineered strains, Phomopsis liquidambaris OE-Chi and IN-Chi, were constructed by transformation with a plasmid and integration of a chitinase into the genome, respectively. The OE-Chi and IN-Chi strains could inhibit the expansion of Fusarium sp. in plate confrontation assays in vitro. Colonization of the OE-Chi strain in wheat showed better effects than colonization of the IN-Chi strain and alleviated the inhibition of wheat growth caused by F. graminearum. The shoot length, root length and fresh weight of infected wheat increased by 164.9%, 115.4%, and 190.7%, respectively, when the plants were inoculated with the OE-Chi strain. The peroxidase (POD) activity in the wheat root increased by 38.0%, and it was maintained at a high level in the shoot, which suggested that the OE-Chi strain could enhance the resistance of wheat to F. graminearum. The root and shoot superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities were decreased by 11.8% and 19.0%, respectively, which may be helpful for colonization by the OE-Chi strain. These results suggested that the Phomopsis liquidambaris OE-Chi strain may be a potential endophyte in the biocontrol of FHB.
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Király L, Albert R, Zsemberi O, Schwarczinger I, Hafez YM, Künstler A. Reactive Oxygen Species Contribute to Symptomless, Extreme Resistance to Potato virus X in Tobacco. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2021; 111:1870-1884. [PMID: 33593113 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-12-20-0540-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Here we show that in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cultivar Samsun NN Rx1) the development of Rx1 gene-mediated, symptomless, extreme resistance to Potato virus X (PVX) is preceded by an early, intensive accumulation of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) superoxide (O2·-), evident between 1 and 6 h after inoculation and associated with increased nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase activities. This suggests a direct contribution of this ROS to virus restriction during symptomless, extreme resistance. Superoxide inhibition in PVX-inoculated leaves by infiltration of antioxidants (superoxide dismutase [SOD] and catalase [CAT]) partially suppresses extreme resistance in parallel with the appearance of localized leaf necrosis resembling a hypersensitive resistance (HR) response. F1 progeny from crosses of Rx1 and ferritin overproducer (deficient in production of the ROS OH·) tobaccos also display a suppressed extreme resistance to PVX, because significantly increased virus levels are coupled to HR, suggesting a role of the hydroxyl radical (OH·) in this symptomless antiviral defense. In addition, treatment of PVX-susceptible tobacco with a superoxide-generating agent (riboflavin/methionine) results in HR-like symptoms and reduced PVX titers. Finally, by comparing defense responses during PVX-elicited symptomless, extreme resistance and HR-type resistance elicited by Tobacco mosaic virus, we conclude that defense reactions typical of an HR (e.g., induction of cell death/ROS-regulator genes and antioxidants) are early and transient in the course of extreme resistance. Our results demonstrate the contribution of early accumulation of ROS (superoxide, OH·) in limiting PVX replication during symptomless extreme resistance and support earlier findings that virus-elicited HR represents a delayed, slower resistance response than symptomless, extreme resistance.
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- Lóránt Király
- Department of Plant Pathophysiology, Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), H-1022 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Plant Pathophysiology, Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), H-1022 Budapest, Hungary
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- Division of Toxicology, Wageningen University & Research, 6708 WE Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Pathophysiology, Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), H-1022 Budapest, Hungary
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- EPCRS Excellence Center & Plant Pathology and Biotechnology Lab, Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, 33516 Kafr-El-Sheikh, Egypt
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- Department of Plant Pathophysiology, Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), H-1022 Budapest, Hungary
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Basu S, Clark RE, Bera S, Casteel CL, Crowder DW. Responses of pea plants to multiple antagonists are mediated by order of attack and phytohormone crosstalk. Mol Ecol 2021; 30:4939-4948. [PMID: 34347913 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Plants are often attacked by multiple antagonists and traits of the attacking organisms and their order of arrival onto hosts may affect plant defences. However, few studies have assessed how multiple antagonists, and varying attack order, affect plant defence or nutrition. To address this, we assessed defensive and nutritional responses of Pisum sativum plants after attack by a vector herbivore (Acrythosiphon pisum), a nonvector herbivore (Sitona lineatus), and a pathogen (Pea enation mosaic virus, PEMV). We show viruliferous A. pisum induced several antipathogen plant defence signals, but these defences were inhibited by S. lineatus feeding on peas infected with PEMV. In contrast, S. lineatus feeding induced antiherbivore defence signals, and these plant defences were enhanced by PEMV. Sitona lineatus also increased abundance of plant amino acids, but only when they attacked after viruliferous A. pisum. Our results suggest that diverse communities of biotic antagonists alter defence and nutritional traits of plants through complex pathways that depend on the identity of attackers and their order of arrival onto hosts. Moreover, we show interactions among a group of biotic stressors can vary along a spectrum from antagonism to enhancement/synergism based on the identity and order of attackers, and these interactions are mediated by a multitude of phytohormone pathways.
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- Saumik Basu
- Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA
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Sun Y, Liu C, Liu Z, Zhao T, Jiang J, Li J, Xu X, Yang H. Genome-Wide Identification, Characterization and Expression Analysis of the JAZ Gene Family in Resistance to Gray Leaf Spots in Tomato. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22189974. [PMID: 34576142 PMCID: PMC8469637 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22189974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The plant disease resistance system involves a very complex regulatory network in which jasmonates play a key role in response to external biotic or abiotic stresses. As inhibitors of the jasmonic acid (JA) signaling pathway, JASMONATE ZIM domain (JAZ) proteins have been identified in many plant species, and their functions are gradually being clarified. In this study, 26 JAZ genes were identified in tomato. The physical and chemical properties, predicted subcellular localization, gene structure, cis-acting elements, and interspecies collinearity of 26 SlJAZ genes were subsequently analyzed. RNA-seq data combined with qRT-PCR analysis data showed that the expression of most SlJAZ genes were induced in response to Stemphylium lycopersici, methyl jasmonate (MeJA) and salicylic acid (SA). Tobacco rattle virus RNA2-based VIGS vector (TRV2)-SlJAZ25 plants were more resistant to tomato gray leaf spots than TRV2-00 plants. Therefore, we speculated that SlJAZ25 played a negative regulatory role in tomato resistance to gray leaf spots. Based on combining the results of previous studies and those of our experiments, we speculated that SlJAZ25 might be closely related to JA and SA hormone regulation. SlJAZ25 interacted with SlJAR1, SlCOI1, SlMYC2, and other resistance-related genes to form a regulatory network, and these genes played an important role in the regulation of tomato gray leaf spots. The subcellular localization results showed that the SlJAZ25 gene was located in the nucleus. Overall, this study is the first to identify and analyze JAZ family genes in tomato via bioinformatics approaches, clarifying the regulatory role of SlJAZ25 genes in tomato resistance to gray leaf spots and providing new ideas for improving plant disease resistance.
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- Correspondence: (X.X.); (H.Y.); Tel.: +86-0451-55190748 (H.Y.)
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- Correspondence: (X.X.); (H.Y.); Tel.: +86-0451-55190748 (H.Y.)
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Chettri D, Boro M, Sarkar L, Verma AK. Lectins: Biological significance to biotechnological application. Carbohydr Res 2021; 506:108367. [PMID: 34130214 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2021.108367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Lectins are a set of non-enzymatic carbohydrate binding proteins appearing in all domains of life. They function to recognize, interact and bring about reversible binding of a specific sugar moiety present in a molecule. Since glycans are ubiquitous in nature and are an essential part of various biological process, the lectins are been investigated to understand the profile of these versatile but complex glycan molecule. The knowledge gained can be used to explore and streamline the various mechanisms involving glycans and their conjugates. Thus, lectins have gained importance in carbohydrate-protein interactions contributing to the development in the field of glycobiology. This has led to a deeper understanding of the importance of saccharide recognition in life. Since their discovery, the lectins have become a great choice of research in the field of glycobiology and their biological significances have recently received considerable attention in the biocontrol field as well as medical sectors.
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- Department of Microbiology, Sikkim University, India.
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- Department of Microbiology, Sikkim University, India.
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Magadán S, Mikelez-Alonso I, Borrego F, González-Fernández Á. Nanoparticles and trained immunity: Glimpse into the future. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2021; 175:113821. [PMID: 34087325 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2021.05.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Emerging evidences show that innate immune cells can display changes in their functional programs after infection or vaccination, which lead to immunomodulation (increased or reduced responsiveness) upon secondary activation to the same stimuli or even to a different one. Innate cells acquire features of immunological memory, nowadays using the new term of "trained immunity" or "innate immune memory", which is different from the specific memory immune response elicited by B and T lymphocytes. The review focused on the concept of trained immunity, mostly on myeloid cells. Special attention is dedicated to the pathogen recognition along the evolution (bacteria, plants, invertebrate and vertebrate animals), and to techniques used to study epigenetic reprogramming and metabolic rewiring. Nanomaterials can be recognized by immune cells offering a very promising way to learn about trained immunity. Nanomaterials could be modified in order to immunomodulate the responses ad hoc. Many therapeutic possibilities are opened, and they should be explored.
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Di Lorenzo F, Duda KA, Lanzetta R, Silipo A, De Castro C, Molinaro A. A Journey from Structure to Function of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides. Chem Rev 2021; 122:15767-15821. [PMID: 34286971 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a crucial constituent of the outer membrane of most Gram-negative bacteria, playing a fundamental role in the protection of bacteria from environmental stress factors, in drug resistance, in pathogenesis, and in symbiosis. During the last decades, LPS has been thoroughly dissected, and massive information on this fascinating biomolecule is now available. In this Review, we will give the reader a third millennium update of the current knowledge of LPS with key information on the inherent peculiar carbohydrate chemistry due to often puzzling sugar residues that are uniquely found on it. Then, we will drive the reader through the complex and multifarious immunological outcomes that any given LPS can raise, which is strictly dependent on its chemical structure. Further, we will argue about issues that still remain unresolved and that would represent the immediate future of LPS research. It is critical to address these points to complete our notions on LPS chemistry, functions, and roles, in turn leading to innovative ways to manipulate the processes involving such a still controversial and intriguing biomolecule.
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- Flaviana Di Lorenzo
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy.,Task Force on Microbiome Studies, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Research Center Borstel Leibniz Lung Center, Parkallee 4a, 23845 Borstel, Germany
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy.,Task Force on Microbiome Studies, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy
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- Task Force on Microbiome Studies, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy.,Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Università 96, 80055 Portici, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy.,Task Force on Microbiome Studies, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia 4, 80126 Naples, Italy.,Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Osaka University Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Rani M, Jha G. Host Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Metabolic Pathway Is Involved in Resistance Against Rhizoctonia solani. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2021; 111:1207-1218. [PMID: 33320020 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-08-20-0356-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Rhizoctonia solani is a highly destructive necrotrophic fungal pathogen having a diverse host range, including rice and tomato. Previously R. solani infection has been found to cause large-scale readjustment in host primary metabolism and accumulation of various stress-associated metabolites such as gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in rice. In this study, we report upregulation of GABA pathway genes during pathogenesis of R. solani in rice and tomato. The exogenous application of GABA provided partial resistance against R. solani infection in both the hosts. Furthermore, by using the virus-induced gene silencing approach, we knocked down the expression of some of the tomato genes involved in GABA biosynthesis (glutamate decarboxylase) and GABA catabolism (GABA-transaminase and succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase) to study their role in host defense against R. solani infection. The silencing of each of these genes increased disease susceptibility in tomato. Overall the results from gene expression analysis, exogenous chemical application, and gene silencing studies suggest that the GABA pathway plays a positive role in plant defense against necrotrophic pathogen R. solani.
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- Mamta Rani
- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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Mishra R, Mohanty JN, Mahanty B, Joshi RK. A single transcript CRISPR/Cas9 mediated mutagenesis of CaERF28 confers anthracnose resistance in chilli pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). PLANTA 2021; 254:5. [PMID: 34132917 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-021-03660-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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T-DNA-free homozygous mutant lines developed through a single transcript CRISPR/Cas9 system harboring the desired modification in the CaERF28 locus exhibited significantly enhanced resistance to the anthracnose pathogen Colletotrichum truncatum coupled with the improved expression of defense responsive genes. Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum species, is a major disease of chilli (Capsicum annuum) accounting for significant pre- and post-harvest yield losses across the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Management of chilli anthracnose using traditional methods have not met with noticeable success. In the present study, we have demonstrated an enhanced anthracnose resistance through a single transcript unit CRISPR/Cas9 mediated alteration of the susceptibility gene CaERF28 in C. annuum. A construct with a single Pol II promoter-driven expression of Cas9, sgRNA and a hammerhead ribozyme (RZ) was designed to modify the CaERF28 gene in the susceptible chilli genotype Arka Lohit. Fourty-five C-ERF28-induced mutant lines (72.5%) were identified from 62 T0 transgenic plants. Further, simultaneously targeted multiple sites within CaERF28 showed increased mutation (85.7%) efficiency. DNA sequence analysis showed that these plants harboured multiple InDels at the target site. The allelic mutants of C-ERF28 were transferred to the following generations by simple Mendelian inheritance. Segregation in the T1 and T2 generations resulted in the identification of T-DNA free and marker-free C-ERF28 mutant lines. Five homozygous mutants demonstrated enhanced resistance to anthracnose compared to wild type as demonstrated by reduced spore count and fungal growth as well as induced expression of defense-related genes. Our results demonstrated that the STU-CRISPR/Cas9 mediated editing of the CaERF28 gene is a rapid, safe and versatile approach for enhancing anthracnose resistance in chilli pepper and pave way for its utilization in the improvement of other solanaceous crops.
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- Rukmini Mishra
- School of Applied Science, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar, 752050, India
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- Centre for Biomedical Informatics, Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, 751003, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Rama Devi Women's University, Vidya Vihar, Bhubaneswar, 751022, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Rama Devi Women's University, Vidya Vihar, Bhubaneswar, 751022, India.
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Sensing Methodologies in Agriculture for Monitoring Biotic Stress in Plants Due to Pathogens and Pests. INVENTIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/inventions6020029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Reducing agricultural losses is an effective way to sustainably increase agricultural output efficiency to meet our present and future needs for food, fiber, fodder, and fuel. Our ever-improving understanding of the ways in which plants respond to stress, biotic and abiotic, has led to the development of innovative sensing technologies for detecting crop stresses/stressors and deploying efficient measures. This article aims to present the current state of the methodologies applied in the field of agriculture towards the detection of biotic stress in crops. Key sensing methodologies for plant pathogen (or phytopathogen), as well as herbivorous insects/pests are presented, where the working principles are described, and key recent works discussed. The detection methods overviewed for phytopathogen-related stress identification include nucleic acid-based methods, immunological methods, imaging-based techniques, spectroscopic methods, phytohormone biosensing methods, monitoring methods for plant volatiles, and active remote sensing technologies. Whereas the pest-related sensing techniques include machine-vision-based methods, pest acoustic-emission sensors, and volatile organic compound-based stress monitoring methods. Additionally, Comparisons have been made between different sensing techniques as well as recently reported works, where the strengths and limitations are identified. Finally, the prospective future directions for monitoring biotic stress in crops are discussed.
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Plant-colonizing fungi secrete a cocktail of effector proteins during colonization. After secretion, some of these effectors are delivered into plant cells to directly dampen the plant immune system or redirect host processes benefitting fungal growth. Other effectors function in the apoplastic space either as released proteins modulating the activity of plant enzymes associated with plant defense or as proteins bound to the fungal cell wall. For such fungal cell wall-bound effectors, we know particularly little about their molecular function. In this review, we describe effectors that are associated with the fungal cell wall and discuss how they contribute to colonization.
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- Shigeyuki Tanaka
- Department of Organismic Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Straße 10, Marburg 35043, Germany
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- Department of Organismic Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Straße 10, Marburg 35043, Germany
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Usmonov A, Yoo SJ, Kim ST, Yang JS, Sang MK, Jung HW. The Bacillus zanthoxyli HS1 Strain Renders Vegetable Plants Resistant and Tolerant against Pathogen Infection and High Salinity Stress. THE PLANT PATHOLOGY JOURNAL 2021; 37:72-78. [PMID: 33551698 PMCID: PMC7847759 DOI: 10.5423/ppj.nt.12.2020.0219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Revised: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Various management systems are being broadly employed to minimize crop yield loss resulting from abiotic and biotic stresses. Here we introduce a Bacillus zanthoxyli HS1 strain as a potent candidate for managing manifold stresses on vegetable plants. Considering 16S rDNA sequence and biochemical characteristics, the strain is closely related to B. zanthoxyli. The B. zanthoxyli HS1's soil-drench confers disease resistance on tomato and paprika plants against infection with Ralstonia solanacearum and Phytophthora capsici, respectively. Root and shoot growths are also increased in B. zanthoxyli HS1-treated cabbage, cucumber, and tomato plants, compared with those in mock-treated plants, after application of high salinity solution. Moreover, the pretreatment of B. zanthoxyli HS1 on cabbage plants inhibits the degradation of chloroplast pigments caused by high salinity stresses, whereas the inhibitory effect is not observed in cucumber plants. These findings suggest that B. zanthoxyli HS1 stain inhibits disease development and confers tolerance to salinity stress on vegetable plants.
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- Alisher Usmonov
- Department of Applied Bioscience, Dong-A University, Busan 4935, Korea
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- National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Korea
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- Department of Applied Bioscience, Dong-A University, Busan 4935, Korea
- National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Korea
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- Department of Applied Bioscience, Dong-A University, Busan 4935, Korea
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- National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Wanju 55365, Korea
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Dong-A University, Busan 4915, Korea
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Sakeh NM, Abdullah SNA, Bahari MNA, Azzeme AM, Shaharuddin NA, Idris AS. EgJUB1 and EgERF113 transcription factors as potential master regulators of defense response in Elaeis guineensis against the hemibiotrophic Ganoderma boninense. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 21:59. [PMID: 33482731 PMCID: PMC7825162 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-02812-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Hemibiotrophic pathogen such as the fungal pathogen Ganoderma boninense that is destructive to oil palm, manipulates host defense mechanism by strategically switching from biotrophic to necrotrophic phase. Our previous study revealed two distinguishable expression profiles of oil palm genes that formed the basis in deducing biotrophic phase at early interaction which switched to necrotrophic phase at a later stage of infection. RESULTS The present report is a continuing study from our previous published transcriptomic profiling of oil palm seedlings against G. boninense. We focused on identifying differentially expressed genes (DEGs) encoding transcription factors (TFs) from the same RNA-seq data; resulting in 106 upregulated and 108 downregulated TFs being identified. The DEGs are involved in four established defense-related pathways responsible for cell wall modification, reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated signaling, programmed cell death (PCD) and plant innate immunity. We discovered upregulation of JUNGBRUNNEN 1 (EgJUB1) during the fungal biotrophic phase while Ethylene Responsive Factor 113 (EgERF113) demonstrated prominent upregulation when the palm switches to defense against necrotrophic phase. EgJUB1 was shown to have a binding activity to a 19 bp palindromic SNBE1 element, WNNYBTNNNNNNNAMGNHW found in the promoter region of co-expressing EgHSFC-2b. Further in silico analysis of promoter regions revealed co-expression of EgJUB1 with TFs containing SNBE1 element with single nucleotide change at either the 5th or 18th position. Meanwhile, EgERF113 binds to both GCC and DRE/CRT elements promoting plasticity in upregulating the downstream defense-related genes. Both TFs were proven to be nuclear-localized based on subcellular localization experiment using onion epidermal cells. CONCLUSION Our findings demonstrated unprecedented transcriptional reprogramming of specific TFs potentially to enable regulation of a specific set of genes during different infection phases of this hemibiotrophic fungal pathogen. The results propose the intricacy of oil palm defense response in orchestrating EgJUB1 during biotrophic and EgERF113 during the subsequent transition to the necrotrophic phase. Binding of EgJUB1 to SNBE motif instead of NACBS while EgERF113 to GCC-box and DRE/CRT motifs is unconventional and not normally associated with pathogen infection. Identification of these phase-specific oil palm TFs is important in designing strategies to tackle or attenuate the progress of infection.
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- Nurshafika Mohd Sakeh
- Institute of Plantation Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Institute of Plantation Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
- Department of Agriculture Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Ganoderma and Diseases Research for Oil Palm Unit, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, No. 6, Persiaran Institusi, Bandar Baru Bangi, 43000, Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Desaint H, Aoun N, Deslandes L, Vailleau F, Roux F, Berthomé R. Fight hard or die trying: when plants face pathogens under heat stress. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 229:712-734. [PMID: 32981118 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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In their natural environment, plants are exposed to biotic or abiotic stresses that occur sequentially or simultaneously. Plant responses to these stresses have been studied widely and have been well characterised in simplified systems involving single plant species facing individual stress. Temperature elevation is a major abiotic driver of climate change and scenarios have predicted an increase in the number and severity of epidemics. In this context, here we review the available data on the effect of heat stress on plant-pathogen interactions. Considering 45 studies performed on model or crop species, we discuss the possible implications of the optimum growth temperature of plant hosts and pathogens, mode of stress application and temperature variation on resistance modulations. Alarmingly, most identified resistances are altered under temperature elevation, regardless of the plant and pathogen species. Therefore, we have listed current knowledge on heat-dependent plant immune mechanisms and pathogen thermosensory processes, mainly studied in animals and human pathogens, that could help to understand the outcome of plant-pathogen interactions under elevated temperatures. Based on a general overview of the mechanisms involved in plant responses to pathogens, and integrating multiple interactions with the biotic environment, we provide recommendations to optimise plant disease resistance under heat stress and to identify thermotolerant resistance mechanisms.
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- Henri Desaint
- LIPM, INRAE, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
- SYNGENTA Seeds, Sarrians, 84260, France
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- LIPM, INRAE, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, INRAE, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- LIPM, INRAE, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Plant Defence Mechanisms Are Modulated by the Circadian System. BIOLOGY 2020; 9:biology9120454. [PMID: 33317013 PMCID: PMC7763185 DOI: 10.3390/biology9120454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Revised: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Simple Summary The circadian clock is an endogenous time keeping mechanism found in living organisms and their respective pathogens. Numerous studies demonstrate that rhythms generated by this internal biological oscillator regulate and modulate most of the physiological, developmental, and biochemical processes of plants. Importantly, plant defence responses have also been shown to be modulated by the host circadian clock and vice versa. In this review we discuss the current understanding of the interactions between plant immunity and the circadian system. We also describe the possibility of pathogens directly or indirectly influencing plants’ circadian rhythms and suggest that these interactions could help us devise better disease management strategies for plants. Our review raises further research questions and we conclude that experimentation should be completed to unravel the complex mechanisms underlying interactions between plant defence and the circadian system. Abstract Plant health is an important aspect of food security, with pathogens, pests, and herbivores all contributing to yield losses in crops. Plants’ defence against pathogens is complex and utilises several metabolic processes, including the circadian system, to coordinate their response. In this review, we examine how plants’ circadian rhythms contribute to defence mechanisms, particularly in response to bacterial pathogen attack. Circadian rhythms contribute to many aspects of the plant–pathogen interaction, although significant gaps in our understanding remain to be explored. We conclude that if these relationships are explored further, better disease management strategies could be revealed.
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Martin-Rivilla H, Garcia-Villaraco A, Ramos-Solano B, Gutierrez-Mañero FJ, Lucas JA. Bioeffectors as Biotechnological Tools to Boost Plant Innate Immunity: Signal Transduction Pathways Involved. PLANTS 2020; 9:plants9121731. [PMID: 33302428 PMCID: PMC7762609 DOI: 10.3390/plants9121731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Revised: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The use of beneficial rhizobacteria (bioeffectors) and their derived metabolic elicitors are efficient biotechnological alternatives in plant immune system elicitation. This work aimed to check the ability of 25 bacterial strains isolated from the rhizosphere of Nicotiana glauca, and selected for their biochemical traits from a group of 175, to trigger the innate immune system of Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings against the pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. The five strains more effective in preventing pathogen infection were used to elucidate signal transduction pathways involved in the plant immune response by studying the differential expression of Salicylic acid and Jasmonic acid/Ethylene pathway marker genes. Some strains stimulated both pathways, while others stimulated either one or the other. The metabolic elicitors of two strains, chosen for the differential expression results of the genes studied, were extracted using n-hexane, ethyl acetate, and n-butanol, and their capacity to mimic bacterial effect to trigger the plant immune system was studied. N-hexane and ethyl acetate were the most effective fractions against the pathogen in both strains, achieving similar protection rates although gene expression responses were different from that obtained by the bacteria. These results open an amount of biotechnological possibilities to develop biological products for agriculture.
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Siddappa S, Marathe GK. What we know about plant arginases? PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2020; 156:600-610. [PMID: 33069114 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Nitrogen is one of the essential element required for plant growth and development. In plants, most of the nitrogen is stored in arginine. Hence, metabolism of arginine to urea by arginase and its further hydrolysis to ammonia by urease is involved in nitrogen recycling to meet the metabolic demands of growing plants. In this respect, plant arginases differ from that of animals. Animals excrete urea while plants recycle the urea. However, the studies on the biochemical and biophysical characteristics of plant arginase are limited when compared to animal arginase(s). In this review, the structural and biochemical characteristics of various plant arginases are discussed. Moreover, the significance of arginase in nitrogen recycling is explained and recent literature on function and activation of plant arginases in response to various environmental (biotic and abiotic) insults is also presented.
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- Shiva Siddappa
- Department of Studies in Biochemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Studies in Biochemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India; Department of Studies in Molecular Biology, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India.
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de Rooij PGH, Perrella G, Kaiserli E, van Zanten M. The diverse and unanticipated roles of histone deacetylase 9 in coordinating plant development and environmental acclimation. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2020; 71:6211-6225. [PMID: 32687569 PMCID: PMC7586748 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Plants tightly control gene transcription to adapt to environmental conditions and steer growth and development. Different types of epigenetic modifications are instrumental in these processes. In recent years, an important role for the chromatin-modifying RPD3/HDA1 class I HDAC HISTONE DEACETYLASE 9 (HDA9) emerged in the regulation of a multitude of plant traits and responses. HDACs are widely considered transcriptional repressors and are typically part of multiprotein complexes containing co-repressors, DNA, and histone-binding proteins. By catalyzing the removal of acetyl groups from lysine residues of histone protein tails, HDA9 negatively controls gene expression in many cases, in concert with interacting proteins such as POWERDRESS (PWR), HIGH EXPRESSION OF OSMOTICALLY RESPONSIVE GENES 15 (HOS15), WRKY53, ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 (HY5), ABA INSENSITIVE 4 (ABI4), and EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3). However, HDA9 activity has also been directly linked to transcriptional activation. In addition, following the recent breakthrough discovery of mutual negative feedback regulation between HDA9 and its interacting WRKY-domain transcription factor WRKY53, swift progress in gaining understanding of the biology of HDA9 is expected. In this review, we summarize knowledge on this intriguing versatile-and long under-rated-protein and propose novel leads to further unravel HDA9-governed molecular networks underlying plant development and environmental biology.
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- Peter G H de Rooij
- Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan, CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- ENEA - Trisaia Research Centre 75026, Rotondella (Matera), Italy
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- Institute of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Molecular Plant Physiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan, CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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