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VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v14122790
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Arabidopsis thaliana; cucumber mosaic virus; systemic necrosis; hypersensitive response; resistance; plant-virus coevolution
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Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) is a mechanism in plants to resist virus infections by recognizing viral proteins with specific plant R proteins. However, in some plant-virus interactions, ETI leads to systemic necrosis, spreading PCD and virus multiplication throughout the plant. This study identified an allelic version of RCY1 as the host genetic determinant of systemic necrosis induced by cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) infection in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Effector-triggered immunity (ETI) is one of the most studied mechanisms of plant resistance to viruses. During ETI, viral proteins are recognized by specific plant R proteins, which most often trigger a hypersensitive response (HR) involving programmed cell death (PCD) and a restriction of infection in the initially infected sites. However, in some plant-virus interactions, ETI leads to a response in which PCD and virus multiplication are not restricted to the entry sites and spread throughout the plant, leading to systemic necrosis. The host and virus genetic determinants, and the consequences of this response in plant-virus coevolution, are still poorly understood. Here, we identified an allelic version of RCY1-an R protein-as the host genetic determinant of broad-spectrum systemic necrosis induced by cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) infection in the Arabidopsis thaliana Co-1 ecotype. Systemic necrosis reduced virus fitness by shortening the infectious period and limiting virus multiplication; thus, this phenotype could be adaptive for the plant population as a defense against CMV. However, the low frequency (less than 1%) of this phenotype in A. thaliana wild populations argues against this hypothesis. These results expand current knowledge on the resistance mechanisms to virus infections associated with ETI in plants.
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