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Chickpea Roots Undergoing Colonisation by Phytophthora medicaginis Exhibit Opposing Jasmonic Acid and Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Signalling Profiles to Leaf Hemibiotrophic Models

Hemibiotrophic pathogens cause significant losses within agriculture, threatening the sustainability of food systems globally. These microbes colonise plant tissues in three phases: a biotrophic phase followed by a biotrophic-to-necrotrophic switch phase and ending with necrotrophy. Each of these ph...

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Autores principales: Coles, Donovin W., Bithell, Sean L., Mikhael, Meena, Cuddy, William S., Plett, Jonathan M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8874544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35208798
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10020343
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author Coles, Donovin W.
Bithell, Sean L.
Mikhael, Meena
Cuddy, William S.
Plett, Jonathan M.
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description Hemibiotrophic pathogens cause significant losses within agriculture, threatening the sustainability of food systems globally. These microbes colonise plant tissues in three phases: a biotrophic phase followed by a biotrophic-to-necrotrophic switch phase and ending with necrotrophy. Each of these phases is characterized by both common and discrete host transcriptional responses. Plant hormones play an important role in these phases, with foliar models showing that salicylic acid accumulates during the biotrophic phase and jasmonic acid/ethylene responses occur during the necrotrophic phase. The appropriateness of this model to plant roots has been challenged in recent years. The need to understand root responses to hemibiotrophic pathogens of agronomic importance necessitates further research. In this study, using the root hemibiotroph Phytophthora medicaginis, we define the duration of each phase of pathogenesis in Cicer arietinum (chickpea) roots. Using transcriptional profiling, we demonstrate that susceptible chickpea roots display some similarities in response to disease progression as previously documented in leaf plant–pathogen hemibiotrophic interactions. However, our transcriptomic results also show that chickpea roots do not conform to the phytohormone responses typically found in leaf colonisation by hemibiotrophs. We found that quantified levels of salicylic acid concentrations in root tissues decreased significantly during biotrophy while jasmonic acid concentrations were significantly induced. This study demonstrated that a wider spectrum of plant species should be investigated in the future to understand the physiological changes in plants during colonisation by soil-borne hemibiotrophic pathogens before we can better manage these economically important microbes.
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spelling pubmed-88745442022-02-26 Chickpea Roots Undergoing Colonisation by Phytophthora medicaginis Exhibit Opposing Jasmonic Acid and Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Signalling Profiles to Leaf Hemibiotrophic Models Coles, Donovin W. Bithell, Sean L. Mikhael, Meena Cuddy, William S. Plett, Jonathan M. Microorganisms Article Hemibiotrophic pathogens cause significant losses within agriculture, threatening the sustainability of food systems globally. These microbes colonise plant tissues in three phases: a biotrophic phase followed by a biotrophic-to-necrotrophic switch phase and ending with necrotrophy. Each of these phases is characterized by both common and discrete host transcriptional responses. Plant hormones play an important role in these phases, with foliar models showing that salicylic acid accumulates during the biotrophic phase and jasmonic acid/ethylene responses occur during the necrotrophic phase. The appropriateness of this model to plant roots has been challenged in recent years. The need to understand root responses to hemibiotrophic pathogens of agronomic importance necessitates further research. In this study, using the root hemibiotroph Phytophthora medicaginis, we define the duration of each phase of pathogenesis in Cicer arietinum (chickpea) roots. Using transcriptional profiling, we demonstrate that susceptible chickpea roots display some similarities in response to disease progression as previously documented in leaf plant–pathogen hemibiotrophic interactions. However, our transcriptomic results also show that chickpea roots do not conform to the phytohormone responses typically found in leaf colonisation by hemibiotrophs. We found that quantified levels of salicylic acid concentrations in root tissues decreased significantly during biotrophy while jasmonic acid concentrations were significantly induced. This study demonstrated that a wider spectrum of plant species should be investigated in the future to understand the physiological changes in plants during colonisation by soil-borne hemibiotrophic pathogens before we can better manage these economically important microbes. MDPI 2022-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8874544/ /pubmed/35208798 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10020343 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Coles, Donovin W.
Bithell, Sean L.
Mikhael, Meena
Cuddy, William S.
Plett, Jonathan M.
Chickpea Roots Undergoing Colonisation by Phytophthora medicaginis Exhibit Opposing Jasmonic Acid and Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Signalling Profiles to Leaf Hemibiotrophic Models
title Chickpea Roots Undergoing Colonisation by Phytophthora medicaginis Exhibit Opposing Jasmonic Acid and Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Signalling Profiles to Leaf Hemibiotrophic Models
title_full Chickpea Roots Undergoing Colonisation by Phytophthora medicaginis Exhibit Opposing Jasmonic Acid and Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Signalling Profiles to Leaf Hemibiotrophic Models
title_fullStr Chickpea Roots Undergoing Colonisation by Phytophthora medicaginis Exhibit Opposing Jasmonic Acid and Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Signalling Profiles to Leaf Hemibiotrophic Models
title_full_unstemmed Chickpea Roots Undergoing Colonisation by Phytophthora medicaginis Exhibit Opposing Jasmonic Acid and Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Signalling Profiles to Leaf Hemibiotrophic Models
title_short Chickpea Roots Undergoing Colonisation by Phytophthora medicaginis Exhibit Opposing Jasmonic Acid and Salicylic Acid Accumulation and Signalling Profiles to Leaf Hemibiotrophic Models
title_sort chickpea roots undergoing colonisation by phytophthora medicaginis exhibit opposing jasmonic acid and salicylic acid accumulation and signalling profiles to leaf hemibiotrophic models
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8874544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35208798
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10020343
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