Journal
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 72, Issue 5, Pages 1702-1713Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa539
Keywords
Arbuscular mycorrhizae; autoregulation; CLAVATA; nitrogen; phosphorus; tomato
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- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship [FT140100770]
- Australian Research Council [DP140101709]
- Australian Research Training Program scholarship
- National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program [IOS-1546837]
- Tasmania Graduate Research Scholarship
- Australian Research Council [FT140100770] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Plants form mutualistic nutrient-acquiring symbioses with microbes like arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and employ a negative feedback loop called autoregulation of mycorrhizae (AOM) to limit the formation of these symbioses. Specific genes like FAB, FIN, and SlCLV2 have been identified as playing roles in negatively regulating arbuscular mycorrhizal formation in tomato. Furthermore, external nutrients such as phosphate and nitrate can strongly suppress arbuscular mycorrhizal formation, with FAB and FIN being required for nitrate suppression but not for phosphate suppression. This suggests a deep homology in the symbiotic role of these genes, potentially forming a common symbiotic toolkit for beneficial plant-microbe interactions.
Plants form mutualistic nutrient-acquiring symbioses with microbes, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The formation of these symbioses is costly, and plants employ a negative feedback loop termed autoregulation of mycorrhizae (AOM) to limit formation of arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM). We provide evidence for the role of one leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase (FAB), a hydroxyproline O-arabinosyltransferase enzyme (FIN), and additional evidence for one receptor-like protein (SlCLV2) in the negative regulation of AM formation in tomato. Reciprocal grafting experiments suggest that the FAB gene acts locally in the root, while the SlCLV2 gene may act in both the root and the shoot. External nutrients including phosphate and nitrate can also strongly suppress AM formation. We found that FAB and FIN are required for nitrate suppression of AM but are not required for the powerful suppression of AM colonization by phosphate. This parallels some of the roles of legume homologues in the autoregulation of the more recently evolved symbioses with nitrogen-fixing bacteria leading to nodulation. This deep homology in the symbiotic role of these genes suggests that in addition to the early signalling events that lead to the establishment of AM and nodulation, the autoregulation pathway might also be considered part of the common symbiotic toolkit that enabled plants to form beneficial symbioses.
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