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Calmodulin Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Botrytis cinerea Infection in Tomato Fruit
Calmodulin, a ubiquitous calcium sensor, plays an important role in decoding stress-triggered intracellular calcium changes and regulates the functions of numerous target proteins involved in various plant physiological responses. To determine the functions of calmodulin in fleshy fruit, expression...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4844350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27135512 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants3030427 |
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author | Peng, Hui Yang, Tianbao Jurick, Wayne M. |
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description | Calmodulin, a ubiquitous calcium sensor, plays an important role in decoding stress-triggered intracellular calcium changes and regulates the functions of numerous target proteins involved in various plant physiological responses. To determine the functions of calmodulin in fleshy fruit, expression studies were performed on a family of six calmodulin genes (SlCaMs) in mature-green stage tomato fruit in response to mechanical injury and Botrytis cinerea infection. Both wounding and pathogen inoculation triggered expression of all those genes, with SlCaM2 being the most responsive one to both treatments. Furthermore, all calmodulin genes were upregulated by salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate, two signaling molecules involved in plant immunity. In addition to SlCaM2, SlCaM1 was highly responsive to salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate. However, SlCaM2 exhibited a more rapid and stronger response than SlCaM1. Overexpression of SlCaM2 in tomato fruit enhanced resistance to Botrytis-induced decay, whereas reducing its expression resulted in increased lesion development. These results indicate that calmodulin is a positive regulator of plant defense in fruit by activating defense pathways including salicylate- and jasmonate-signaling pathways, and SlCaM2 is the major calmodulin gene responsible for this event. |
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spelling | pubmed-48443502016-04-29 Calmodulin Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Botrytis cinerea Infection in Tomato Fruit Peng, Hui Yang, Tianbao Jurick, Wayne M. Plants (Basel) Article Calmodulin, a ubiquitous calcium sensor, plays an important role in decoding stress-triggered intracellular calcium changes and regulates the functions of numerous target proteins involved in various plant physiological responses. To determine the functions of calmodulin in fleshy fruit, expression studies were performed on a family of six calmodulin genes (SlCaMs) in mature-green stage tomato fruit in response to mechanical injury and Botrytis cinerea infection. Both wounding and pathogen inoculation triggered expression of all those genes, with SlCaM2 being the most responsive one to both treatments. Furthermore, all calmodulin genes were upregulated by salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate, two signaling molecules involved in plant immunity. In addition to SlCaM2, SlCaM1 was highly responsive to salicylic acid and methyl jasmonate. However, SlCaM2 exhibited a more rapid and stronger response than SlCaM1. Overexpression of SlCaM2 in tomato fruit enhanced resistance to Botrytis-induced decay, whereas reducing its expression resulted in increased lesion development. These results indicate that calmodulin is a positive regulator of plant defense in fruit by activating defense pathways including salicylate- and jasmonate-signaling pathways, and SlCaM2 is the major calmodulin gene responsible for this event. MDPI 2014-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4844350/ /pubmed/27135512 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants3030427 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Peng, Hui Yang, Tianbao Jurick, Wayne M. Calmodulin Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Botrytis cinerea Infection in Tomato Fruit |
title | Calmodulin Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Botrytis
cinerea Infection in Tomato Fruit |
title_full | Calmodulin Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Botrytis
cinerea Infection in Tomato Fruit |
title_fullStr | Calmodulin Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Botrytis
cinerea Infection in Tomato Fruit |
title_full_unstemmed | Calmodulin Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Botrytis
cinerea Infection in Tomato Fruit |
title_short | Calmodulin Gene Expression in Response to Mechanical Wounding and Botrytis
cinerea Infection in Tomato Fruit |
title_sort | calmodulin gene expression in response to mechanical wounding and botrytis
cinerea infection in tomato fruit |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4844350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27135512 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants3030427 |
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