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Strigolactones Modulate Salicylic Acid-Mediated Disease Resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23095246

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Arabidopsis; disease; phytohormones; strigolactones; salicylic acid; systemic acquired resistance; GR24; strigolactone biosynthesis inhibitor; ethylene

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  1. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries of Japan under the Science and Technology Research Promotion Program for Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, and Food Industry [27004A]
  2. JSPS KAKENHI [18K05656]
  3. [19J14665]
  4. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18K05656] Funding Source: KAKEN

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Strigolactones are phytohormones that play multiple roles in plants, including regulation of branching and interactions with fungi and weeds. They have also been found to be involved in plant responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. This study analyzed the effects of Strigolactones on plant resistance to diseases induced by salicylic acid signaling.
Strigolactones are low-molecular-weight phytohormones that play several roles in plants, such as regulation of shoot branching and interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and parasitic weeds. Recently, strigolactones have been shown to be involved in plant responses to abiotic and biotic stress conditions. Herein, we analyzed the effects of strigolactones on systemic acquired resistance induced through salicylic acid-mediated signaling. We observed that the systemic acquired resistance inducer enhanced disease resistance in strigolactone-signaling and biosynthesis-deficient mutants. However, the amount of endogenous salicylic acid and the expression levels of salicylic acid-responsive genes were lower in strigolactone signaling-deficient max2 mutants than in wildtype plants. In both the wildtype and strigolactone biosynthesis-deficient mutants, the strigolactone analog GR24 enhanced disease resistance, whereas treatment with a strigolactone biosynthesis inhibitor suppressed disease resistance in the wildtype. Before inoculation of wildtype plants with pathogenic bacteria, treatment with GR24 did not induce defense-related genes; however, salicylic acid-responsive defense genes were rapidly induced after pathogenic infection. These findings suggest that strigolactones have a priming effect on Arabidopsis thaliana by inducing salicylic acid-mediated disease resistance.

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