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Callose metabolism and the regulation of cell walls and plasmodesmata during plant mutualistic and pathogenic interactions

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PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 391-404

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pce.14510

Keywords

beta 1,3 glucanases; callose synthases; callose turnover; intercellular signaling; plant-microbe interactions; plasmodesmata proteins; symbiosis

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Cell walls are critical for plant growth and development, providing support and protection. Callose, a type of glucan, accumulates in specialized cell wall microdomains, including plasmodesmata. It regulates important biological processes and affects the transport of signaling proteins and RNA molecules. The mechanisms controlling callose synthesis and degradation are still unresolved. This review explores recent literature on callose metabolism and its response to mutualistic symbionts and pathogenic elicitors.
Cell walls are essential for plant growth and development, providing support and protection from external environments. Callose is a glucan that accumulates in specialized cell wall microdomains including around intercellular pores called plasmodesmata. Despite representing a small percentage of the cell wall (similar to 0.3% in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana), callose accumulation regulates important biological processes such as phloem and pollen development, cell division, organ formation, responses to pathogenic invasion and to changes in nutrients and toxic metals in the soil. Callose accumulation modifies cell wall properties and restricts plasmodesmata aperture, affecting the transport of signaling proteins and RNA molecules that regulate plant developmental and environmental responses. Although the importance of callose, at and outside plasmodesmata cell walls, is widely recognized, the underlying mechanisms controlling changes in its synthesis and degradation are still unresolved. In this review, we explore the most recent literature addressing callose metabolism with a focus on the molecular factors affecting callose accumulation in response to mutualistic symbionts and pathogenic elicitors. We discuss commonalities in the signaling pathways, identify research gaps and highlight opportunities to target callose in the improvement of plant responses to beneficial versus pathogenic microbes.

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