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CELL REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 1681-1691Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.10.069
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- National Science Foundation [0749731, 0421914]
- Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation [2930-RDE-016]
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0421914, 0749731] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [1051909] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems [0749731] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [0421914] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The plant galactolipids monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) and digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG) have been linked to the anti-inflammatory and cancer benefits of a green leafy vegetable diet in humans due to their ability to regulate the levels of free radicals like nitric oxide (NO). Here, we show that DGDG contributes to plant NO as well as salicylic acid biosynthesis and is required for the induction of systemic acquired resistance (SAR). In contrast, MGDG regulates the biosynthesis of the SAR signals azelaic acid (AzA) and glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P) that function downstream of NO. Interestingly, DGDG is also required for AzA-induced SAR, but MGDG is not. Notably, transgenic expression of a bacterial glucosyltransferase is unable to restore SAR in dgd1 plants even though it does rescue their morphological and fatty acid phenotypes. These results suggest that MGDG and DGDG are required at distinct steps and function exclusively in their individual roles during the induction of SAR.
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