Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
Volume 28, Issue 8, Pages 943-953Publisher
AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-04-15-0079-R
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture [59-0790-8-060, 59-0200-3-003]
- U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative
- National Science Foundation [EPS 0236913, MCB 0455318, DBI 0521587]
- Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation
- K-IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) of National Institute of Health [P20RR16475]
- Kansas State University
- Max-Planck Society
- International Max-Planck Research School PhD fellowship
- DBT-CREST fellowship from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
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Fusarium graminearum causes Fusarium head blight (FHB) disease in wheat and other cereals. F. graminearum also causes disease in Arabidopsis thaliana. In both Arabidopsis and wheat, F. graminearum infection is limited by salicylic acid (SA) signaling. Here, we show that, in Arabidopsis, the defense regulator EDS1 (ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY1) and its interacting partners, PAD4 (PHYTOALEXIN-DEFICIENT4) and SAG101 (SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED GENE101), promote SA accumulation to curtail F. graminearum infection. Characterization of plants expressing the PAD4 noninteracting eds1(L262P) indicated that interaction between EDS1 and PAD4 is critical for limiting F. graminearum infection. A conserved serine in the predicted acyl hydrolase catalytic triad of PAD4, which is not required for defense against bacterial and oomycete pathogens, is necessary for limiting F. graminearum infection. These results suggest a molecular configuration of PAD4 in Arabidopsis defense against F. graminearum that is different from its defense contribution against other pathogens. We further show that constitutive expression of Arabidopsis PAD4 can enhance FHB resistance in Arabidopsis and wheat. Taken together with previous studies of wheat and Arabidopsis expressing salicylate hydroxylase or the SA-response regulator NPR1 (NON-EXPRESSER OF PR GENES1), our results show that exploring fundamental processes in a model plant provides important leads to manipulating crops for improved disease resistance.
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