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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 176, Issue 3, Pages 2456-2471Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.01281
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFD0201001]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31272155]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [LY18C150001]
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Plants generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the apoplast in response to pathogen attack, especially following resistance (R) gene-mediated pathogen recognition; however, the mechanisms activating ROS generation remain unknown. Here, we demonstrate that RKN (Meloidogyne incognita) infection rapidly induces ROS accumulation in the roots of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plants that contain the R gene Mi-1.2 but rarely induces ROS accumulation in the susceptible or Mi-1.2-silenced resistant genotypes. RNK also induces the hypersensitive response, a form of programmed cell death, in Mi-1.2 plants. RKN induces the expression of numerous class-A heat shock factor (HsfA) genes in resistant tomato plants. Silencing HsfA1a compromises Mi-1.2-mediated resistance, apoplastic H2O2 accumulation, and the transcription of whitefly induced 1 (Wfi1), which encodes a respiratory burst oxidase homolog. HsfA1a regulates Wfi1 transcription by binding to the Wfi1 promoter, and silencing of Wfi1 compromises Mi-1.2-mediated resistance. HsfA1a and Wfi1 are involved in Mi-1.2-triggered Hsp90 accumulation and basal defense in susceptible tomato. Thus, HsfA-1aWfi1-dependent ROS signaling functions as a crucial regulator of plant defense responses.
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