Inverse relationship between systemic resistance of plants to microorganisms and to insect herbivory

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作者
Felton, GW
Korth, KL
Bi, JL
Wesley, SV
Huhman, DV
Mathews, MC
Murphy, JB
Lamb, C
Dixon, RA
机构
[1] Samuel Roberts Noble Fdn Inc, Div Plant Biol, Ardmore, OK 73401 USA
[2] Univ Arkansas, Dept Entomol, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA
[3] Univ Arkansas, Dept Hort, Fayetteville, AR 72701 USA
[4] Univ Edinburgh, Inst Cell & Mol Biol, Edinburgh EH9 3JH, Midlothian, Scotland
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80140-7
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Pre-inoculation of plants with a pathogen that induces necrosis leads to the development of systemic acquired resistance (SAR) to subsequent pathogen attack [1], The phenylpropanoid-derived compound salicylic acid (SA) is necessary for the full expression of both local resistance and SAR [2,3]. A separate signaling pathway involving jasmonic acid (JA) is involved in systemic responses to wounding and insect herbivory [4,5]. There is evidence both supporting and opposing the idea of cross-protection against microbial pathogens and insect herbivores [6,7]. This is a controversial area because pharmacological experiments point to negative crosstalk between responses to systemic pathogens and responses to wounding [8-10], although this has not been demonstrated functionally in vivo. Here, we report that reducing phenylpropanoid biosynthesis by silencing the expression of phenylalanine ammonialyase (PAL) reduces SAR to tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), whereas overexpression of PAL enhances SAR. Tobacco plants with reduced SAR exhibited more effective grazing-induced systemic resistance to larvae of Heliothis virescens, but larval resistance was reduced in plants with elevated phenylpropanoid levels. Furthermore, genetic modification of components involved in phenylpropanoid synthesis revealed an inverse relationship between SA and JA levels. These results demonstrate phenylpropanoid-mediated crosstalk in vivo between microbially induced and herbivore-induced pathways of systemic resistance.
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页码:317 / 320
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