scholarly journals Molecular mechanisms of trade-offs in disease resistance of rice

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-295
Author(s):  
H. TAKATSUJI
Keyword(s):  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Trade Offs

Transcriptome analysis of scions grafted to potato rootstock for improving late blight resistance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuexin Li ◽  
Degang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Late Blight ◽  
Protein Kinases ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Late Blight Resistance ◽  
Potato Late Blight ◽  
Susceptible Variety ◽  
Resistant Variety ◽  
Blight Resistance ◽  
Expression Levels

Abstract Background: Late blight seriously threatens potato cultivation worldwide. The severe and widespread damage caused by the fungal pathogen can lead to drastic decreases in potato yield. Although grafting technology has been widely used to improve crop resistance, the effects of grafting on potato late blight resistance as well as the associated molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Therefore, we performed RNA transcriptome sequencing analysis and the late blight resistance testing of the scion when the potato late blight-resistant variety Qingshu 9 and the susceptible variety Favorita were used as the rootstock and scion, respectively, and vice versa. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of the rootstock on scion disease resistance and to clarify the related molecular mechanisms.Results: A Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathway enrichment analysis revealed that the expression levels of genes related to plant–pathogen interactions, plant mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways, and plant hormone signal transduction pathways were significantly up-regulated in the scion when Qingshu 9 was used as the rootstock. These genes included late blight response genes encoding calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs), chitin elicitor receptor kinases (CERKs), LRR receptor serine/threonine protein kinases (LRR-LRKs), NPR family proteins in the salicylic acid synthesis pathway, and MAPKs. When Favorita was used as the rootstock, the expression levels of the late blight response genes were not up-regulated in the Qingshu 9 scion, but the expression levels of the genes related to proline metabolism, fatty acid chain elongation, and diterpenoid biosynthesis pathways were down-regulated. Resistance results showed that self-grafting of the susceptible variety and grafting with the resistant variety as the rootstock increased the resistance of the susceptible scion to late blight. However, the resistance was stronger after grafting with the resistant variety as the rootstock. Using the susceptible variety as the rootstock decreased the late blight resistance of the resistant scion.Conclusions: Our results showed that changes to the expression of disease resistance genes in the scion after grafting are associated with late blight resistance. The results provide the basis for exploring the molecular mechanism underlying the effects of rootstocks on scion disease resistance.

scholarly journals Exploiting evolutionary trade-offs for posttreatment management of drug-resistant populations

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (30) ◽  
pp. 17924-17931
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Melnikov ◽  
David L. Stevens ◽  
Xian Fu ◽  
Hui Si Kwok ◽  
Jin-Tao Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Resistance ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Genetic Alterations ◽  
Trna Synthetase ◽  
Molecular Defect ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant ◽  
Resistance Evolution ◽  
Growth Defects ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Resistant Cells

Antibiotic resistance frequently evolves through fitness trade-offs in which the genetic alterations that confer resistance to a drug can also cause growth defects in resistant cells. Here, through experimental evolution in a microfluidics-based turbidostat, we demonstrate that antibiotic-resistant cells can be efficiently inhibited by amplifying the fitness costs associated with drug-resistance evolution. Using tavaborole-resistantEscherichia colias a model, we show that genetic mutations in leucyl-tRNA synthetase (that underlie tavaborole resistance) make resistant cells intolerant to norvaline, a chemical analog of leucine that is mistakenly used by tavaborole-resistant cells for protein synthesis. We then show that tavaborole-sensitive cells quickly outcompete tavaborole-resistant cells in the presence of norvaline due to the amplified cost of the molecular defect of tavaborole resistance. This finding illustrates that understanding molecular mechanisms of drug resistance allows us to effectively amplify even small evolutionary vulnerabilities of resistant cells to potentially enhance or enable adaptive therapies by accelerating posttreatment competition between resistant and susceptible cells.

scholarly journals Update on Cuticular Wax Biosynthesis and Its Roles in Plant Disease Resistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 5514
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Wang ◽  
Lingyao Kong ◽  
Pengfei Zhi ◽  
Cheng Chang
Keyword(s):  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Plant Disease Resistance ◽  
Plant Disease ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Defense Responses ◽  
Cuticular Wax ◽  
Cuticular Waxes ◽  
Infection Processes ◽  
Plant Pathogen Interactions

The aerial surface of higher plants is covered by a hydrophobic layer of cuticular waxes to protect plant tissues against enormous environmental challenges including the infection of various pathogens. As the first contact site between plants and pathogens, the layer of cuticular waxes could function as a plant physical barrier that limits the entry of pathogens, acts as a reservoir of signals to trigger plant defense responses, and even gives cues exploited by pathogens to initiate their infection processes. Past decades have seen unprecedented proceedings in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the biosynthesis of plant cuticular waxes and their functions regulating plant–pathogen interactions. In this review, we summarized the recent progress in the molecular biology of cuticular wax biosynthesis and highlighted its multiple roles in plant disease resistance against bacterial, fungal, and insect pathogens.

Disease resistance: Molecular mechanisms and biotechnological applications

Plant Science ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 228 ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Kamo ◽  
Dilip Lakshman ◽  
Keerti Rathore
Keyword(s):  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Biotechnological Applications

scholarly journals Arabidopsis cell wall composition determines disease resistance specificity and fitness

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Molina ◽  
Eva Miedes ◽  
Laura Bacete ◽  
Tinguaro Rodríguez ◽  
Hugo Mélida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Plant Cell ◽  
Cell Walls ◽  
Plant Cell Walls ◽  
Response Modulation ◽  
Glycome Profiling ◽  
Enhanced Resistance ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Resistance Specificity

AbstractPlant cell walls are complex structures subject to dynamic remodeling in response to developmental and environmental cues, and play essential functions in disease resistance responses. We tested the specific contribution of plant cell walls to immunity by determining the susceptibility of a set of Arabidopsis cell wall mutants (cwm) to pathogens with different parasitic styles: a vascular bacterium, a necrotrophic fungus and a biotrophic oomycete. Remarkably, most cwm mutants tested (31/38; 81.6%) showed alterations in their resistance responses to at least one of these pathogens, in comparison to wild-type plants, illustrating the relevance of wall composition in determining disease resistance phenotypes. We found that the enhanced resistance of cwm plants to the necrotrophic and vascular pathogens negatively impacted on cwm fitness traits, like biomass and seed yield. Enhanced resistance of cwm plants is not only mediated by canonical immune pathways, like those modulated by phytohormones or Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns, which are not de-regulated in all cwm tested. Pectin-enriched wall fractions isolated from cwm plants triggered immune responses in other plants, suggesting that wall-mediated defensive pathways might contribute to cwm resistance. Cell walls of cwm plants show a high diversity of composition alterations as revealed by glycome profiling that detect specific wall carbohydrate moieties. Mathematical analysis of glycome profiling data identified correlations between the amounts of specific wall carbohydrate moieties and disease resistance phenotypes of cwm plants. These data support the relevant and specific function of plant wall composition in plant immune response modulation and in balancing disease resistance/development trade-offs.

scholarly journals Trade-offs and selection conflicts in hybrid poplars indicate the stomatal ratio as an important trait regulating disease resistance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl C. Fetter ◽  
David M. Nelson ◽  
Stephen R. Keller
Keyword(s):  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Common Garden ◽  
Phenotypic Variance ◽  
Populus Balsamifera ◽  
Rust Disease ◽  
Stomata Density ◽  
Hybrid Poplars ◽  
Intermediate Phenotypes ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
A Genome

ABSTRACTNatural selection can remove maladaptive genotypic variance from populations, leaving reduced phenotypic variation as a signal of its action. Hybrid populations offer a unique opportunity to study phenotypic variance before selection purifies it, as these populations can have increased genotypic and phenotypic variance than can reveal trade-offs and selection conflicts not visible, or visible to a lesser extent, in unadmixed populations. Here, we study the interactions between a fungal leaf rust disease (Melampsora medusae) and stomata and ecophysiology traits in a set of hybrid and unadmixed individuals formed by natural matings between Populus balsamifera, P. trichocarpa, P. angustifolia, and P. deltoides. Phenotypes were measured on cloned genotypes grown in a common garden and genotyped at 227K SNPs with GBS. Our analyses indicate hybridization decreases disease resistance and increases the variance of stomatal ratio (SR), or the ratio of upper leaf surface stomata density to total stomata density. Heritability of SR was high in admixed populations (H2 = 0.72) and covaries strongly with the proportion of P. balsamifera ancestry in a genome; thus, selection could effectively reduce disease by selecting for low values of stomatal ratio. However, selection conflicts present in some admixed populations may prevent adaptation to pathogens as a result of these populations being unable to occupy adaptive trait space along the growth-defense spectrum. These results suggest an important role for SR and stomatal patterning traits as a target of pathogen induced selection to achieve local fitness optima. Additionally, we demonstrate that hybridization is capable of generating, or magnifying maladaptive intermediate phenotypes to reveal trade-offs and selection conflicts.

scholarly journals CYP20-3 deglutathionylates 2-CysPRX A and suppresses peroxide detoxification during heat stress

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. e202000775
Author(s):  
Wenshan Liu ◽  
Izailda Barbosa dos Santos ◽  
Anna Moye ◽  
Sang-Wook Park
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Optimal Growth ◽  
Defense Responses ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Gene Expressions ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Defense Gene ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Reduction Capacity

In plants, growth-defense trade-offs occur because of limited resources, which demand prioritization towards either of them depending on various external and internal factors. However, very little is known about molecular mechanisms underlying their occurrence. Here, we describe that cyclophilin 20-3 (CYP20-3), a 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA)–binding protein, crisscrosses stress responses with light-dependent electron reactions, which fine-tunes activities of key enzymes in plastid sulfur assimilations and photosynthesis. Under stressed states, OPDA, accumulates in the chloroplasts, binds and stimulates CYP20-3 to convey electrons towards serine acetyltransferase 1 (SAT1) and 2-Cys peroxiredoxin A (2CPA). The latter is a thiol-based peroxidase, protecting and optimizing photosynthesis by reducing its toxic byproducts (e.g., H2O2). Reduction of 2CPA then inactivates its peroxidase activity, suppressing the peroxide detoxification machinery, whereas the activation of SAT1 promotes thiol synthesis and builds up reduction capacity, which in turn triggers the retrograde regulation of defense gene expressions against abiotic stress. Thus, we conclude that CYP20-3 is a unique metabolic hub conveying resource allocations between plant growth and defense responses (trade-offs), ultimately balancing optimal growth phonotype.

scholarly journals Genome-wide identification and characterization of long non-coding RNAs conferring resistance to Colletotrichum gloeosporioides in walnut (Juglans regia)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shan Feng ◽  
Hongcheng Fang ◽  
Xia Liu ◽  
Yuhui Dong ◽  
Qingpeng Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Resistance ◽  
Plant Disease Resistance ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Target Genes ◽  
Colletotrichum Gloeosporioides ◽  
Juglans Regia ◽  
Bioinformatic Analysis ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Phenylpropanoid Biosynthesis ◽  
Non Coding Rnas

Abstract Background: Walnut anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz. and Sacc. is an important walnut production problem in China. Although the long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are important for plant disease resistance , the molecular mechanisms underlying resistance to C. gloeosporioides in walnut remain poorly understood.Results: The anthracnose-resistant F26 fruits from the B26 clone and the anthracnose-susceptible F423 fruits from the 4-23 clone of walnut were used as the test materials. Specifically, we performed a comparative transcriptome analysis of F26 and F423 fruit bracts to identify differentially expressed LncRNAs (DELs) at five time-points (tissues at 0 hpi, pathological tissues at 24 hpi, 48 hpi, 72 hpi, and distal uninoculated tissues at 120 hpi). Compared with F423, a total of 14525 DELs were identified, including 10645 upregulated lncRNAs and 3846 downregulated lncRNAs in F26. The number of upregulated lncRNAs in F26 compared to in F423 was significantly higher at the early stages of C. gloeosporioides infection. A total of 5 modules related to disease resistance were screened by WGCNA and the target genes of lncRNAs were obtained. Bioinformatic analysis showed that the target genes of upregulated lncRNAs were enriched in immune-related processes during the infection of C. gloeosporioides, such as activation of innate immune response, defense response to bacterium, incompatible interaction and immune system process, and enriched in plant hormone signal transduction, phenylpropanoid biosynthesis and other pathways. And 124 known target genes for 96 hub lncRNAs were predicted, including 10 known resistance genes. The expression of 5 lncRNAs and 5 target genes was confirmed by qPCR, which was consistent with the RNA-seq data.Conclusions: The results of this study provide the basis for future functional characterizations of lncRNAs regarding the C. gloeosporioides resistance of walnut fruit bracts.

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