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Beneficial Interactions Between Plants and Microorganisms

Goh, C.-H., Veliz Vallejos, D. F., Nicotra, A. B., and Mathesius, U. (2013) The impact of beneficial plant-associated microbes on plant phenotypic plasticity. J. Chem. Ecol. 39: 826–839.

Gough, C., and Cullimore, J. (2011) Lipo-chitooligosaccharide signaling in endosymbiotic plant–microbe interactions. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 24: 867–878.

Markmann, K., and Parniske, M. (2009) Evolution of root endosymbiosis with bacteria: How novel are nodules? Trends Plant Sci. 14: 77–86.

Oldroyd, G. E. D., and Downie, A. (2004) Calcium, kinases and nodulation signalling in legumes. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 5: 566–576.

Van Dam, N. M. (2009) How plants cope with biotic interactions. Plant Biol. 11: 1–5.

Harmful Interactions Between Plants, Pathogens, and Herbivores

Konno, K. (2011) Plant latex and other exudates as plant defense systems: Roles of various defense chemicals and proteins contained therein. Phytochemistry 72: 1510–1530.

Macias, F. A., Marin, D., Oliveros-Bastidas, A., and Molinillo, J. M. (2009) Rediscovering the bioactivity and ecological role of 1,4-benzoxazinones. Nat. Prod. Rep. 26: 478–489.

Pickard, W. F. (2008) Laticifers and secretory ducts: Two other tube systems in plants. New Phytol. 177: 877–888.

Inducible Defense Responses to Insect Herbivores

Alborn, H. T., Hansen, T. V., Jones, T. H., Bennett, D. C., Tumlinson, J. H., Schmelz, E. A., and Teal, P. E. (2007) Disulfooxy fatty acids from the American bird grasshopper Schistocerca americana, elicitors of plant volatiles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104: 12976–12981.

Alborn, H. T., Turlings, T. C., Jones, T. H., Stenhagen, G. S., Loughrin, J. H., and Tumlinson, J. H. (1997) An elicitor of plant volatiles identified from beet armyworm oral secretions. Science 276: 945–949.

Arimura, G.-I., Ozawa, R., Shimoda, T., Nishioka, T., Boland, W., and Takabayashi, J. (2000) Herbivory-induced volatiles elicit defence genes in lima bean leaves. Nature 406: 512–515.

Christmann, A., and Grill, E. (2013) Electric defence. Nature 500: 404–405.

Engelberth, J., Alborn, H. T., Schmelz, E. A., and Tumlinson, J. H. (2004) Airborne signals prime plants against insect herbivore attack. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 1781–1785.

Fonseca, S., Chini, A., Hamberg, M., Adie, B., Porzel, A., Kramell, R., Miersch, O., Wasternack, C., and Solano, R. (2009) (+)-7-iso-Jasmonyl-L-isoleucine is the endogenous bioactive jasmonate. Nat. Chem. Biol. 5: 344–350.

 Goodspeed, D., Chehab, E. W., Min-Venditti, A., Braam, J., and Covington, M. F. (2012) Arabidopsis synchronizes jasmonate-mediated defense with insect circadian behavior. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109: 4674–4677.

Heil, M., and Bueno, C. S. (2007) Within-plant signaling by volatiles leads to induction and priming of an indirect plant defense in nature. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104: 5467–5472.

Howe, G., Lightner, J., Browse, J., and Ryan, C. (1996) An octadecanoid pathway mutant (JL5) of tomato is compromised in signaling for defense against insect attack. Plant Cell 8: 2067–2077.

Huffaker, A., Pearce, G., Veyrat, N., Erb, M., Turlings, T. C. J., Sartor, R., Shen, Z., Briggs, S. P., Vaughan, M. M., Alborn, H. T., et al. (2013) Plant elicitor peptides are conserved signals regulating direct and indirect antiherbivore defense. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110: 5707–5712.

Jander, G. (2012) Timely plant defenses protect against caterpillar herbivory. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 109: 4674–4677.

Johnson, R., Narvaez, J., An, G., and Ryan, C. (1989) Expression of proteinase inhibitors I and II in transgenic tobacco plants: Effects on natural defense against Manduca sexta larvae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86: 9871–9875.

Kallenbach, M., Alagna, F., Baldwin, I. T., and Bonaventure, G. (2010) Nicotiana attenuata SIPK, WIPK, NPR1, and fatty acid-amino acid conjugates participate in the induction of jasmonic acid biosynthesis by affecting early enzymatic steps in the pathway. Plant Physiol. 152: 96–106.

Kandoth, P. K., Ranf, S., Pancholi, S. S., Jayanty, S., Walla, M. D., Miller, W., Howe, G. A., Lincoln, D. E., and Stratmann, J. W. (2007) Tomato MAPKs LeMPK1, LeMPK2, and LeMPK3 function in the systemin-mediated defense response against herbivorous insects. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104: 12205–12210.

Karban, R., and Baldwin, I. T. (1997) Induced Responses to Herbivory. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Katsir, L., Chung, H. S., Koo, A. J., and Howe, G. A. (2008) Jasmonate signaling: A conserved mechanism of hormone sensing. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 11: 428–435.

Levy, M., Wang, Q., Kaspi, R., Parrella, M. P., and Abel, S. (2005) Arabidopsis IQD1, a novel calmodulin-binding nuclear protein, stimulates glucosinolate accumulation and plant defense. Plant J. 43: 79–96.

Maffei, M., Bossi, S., Spiteller, D., Mithofer, A., and Boland, W. (2004) Effects of feeding Spodoptera littoralis on lima bean leaves. I. Membrane potentials, intracellular calcium variations, oral secretions, and regurgitate components. Plant Physiol. 134: 1752–1762.

McConn, M., Creelman, R. A., Bell, E., Mullet, J. E., and Browse, J. (1997) Jasmonate is essential for insect defense in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94: 5473–5477.

Mohan, S., Ma, P. W. K., Pechan, T., Bassford, E. R., Williams, W. P., and Luthe, D. S. (2006) Degradation of the S. frugiperda peritrophic matrix by an inducible maize cysteine protease. J. Insect Physiol. 52: 21–28.

Pare, P. W., Alborn, H. T., and Tumlinson, J. H. (1998) Concerted biosynthesis of an insect elicitor of plant volatiles. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 13971–13975.

Peumans, W. J., and Van Damme, E. J. M. (1995) Lectins as plant defense proteins. Plant Physiol. 109: 347–352.

Schilmiller, A. L., and Howe, G. A. (2005) Systemic signaling in the wound response. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 8: 369–377.

Truitt, C. L., Wei, H. X., and Pare, P. W. (2004) A plasma membrane protein from Zea mays binds with the herbivore elicitor volicitin. Plant Cell 16: 523–532.

Yan, Y., Christensen, S., Isakeit, T., Engelberth, J., Meeley, R., Hayward, A., Emery, R. J., and Kolomiets, M. V. (2012) Disruption of OPR7 and OPR8 reveals the versative functions of jasmonic acid in maize development and defense. Plant Cell 24: 1420–1436.

Yang, D. H., Hettenhause, C., Baldwin, I. T., and Wu, J. (2012) Silencing Nicotiana attenuata calcium-dependent protein kinases, CDPK4 and CDPK5, stongly up-regulates wound- and herbivory-induced jasmonic acid accumulation. Plant Physiol. 159: 1591–1607.

Plant Defenses against Pathogens

Boller, T., and Felix, G. (2009) A Renaissance of elicitors: Perception of microbe-associate molecular patterns and danger signals by pattern-recognition receptors. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 60: 379–406.

Dogimont, C., Bendahmane, A., Chovelon, V., and Biossot, N. (2010) Host plant resistance to aphids in cultivated crops: Genetic and molecular bases, and interactions with aphid populations. C. R. Biol. 333: 566–573.

Du, B., Zhang, W., Liu, B., Hu, J., Wei, Z., Shi, Z., He, R., Zhu, L., Chen, R., Han, B., et al. (2009) Identification and characterization of Bph14, a gene conferring resistance to brown planthopper in rice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106: 22163–22168.

Hain, R., Reif, H.-J., Krause, E., Langebartels, R., Kindl, H., Vornam, B., Wiese, W., Schmelzer, E., Schreier, P. H., Stöcker, R. H., et al. (1993) Disease resistance results from foreign phytoalexin expression in a novel plant. Nature 361: 153–156.

Kombrink, E., and Somssich, I. E. (1995) Defense responses of plants to pathogens. Adv. Bot. Res. 21: 1–34.

Lamb, C., and Dixon, R. A. (1997) The oxidative burst in plant disease resistance. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 48: 251–275.

Maldonado, A. M., Doerner, P., Dixon, R. A., Lamb, C. J., and Cameron, R. K. (2002) A putative lipid transfer protein involved in systemic resistance signalling in Arabidopsis. Nature 419: 399–403.

Nombela, G., Williamson, V. M., and Muniz, M. (2003) The root-knot nematode resistance gene Mi-1.2 of tomato is responsible for resistance against the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 16: 645–649.

Nürnberger, T., and Scheel, D. (2001) Signal transmission in the plant immune response. Trends Plant Sci. 6: 372–379.

Rossi, M., Goggin, F. L., Milligan, S. B., Kaloshian, I., Ullman, D. E., and Williamson, V. M. (1998) The nematode resistance gene Mi of tomato confers resistance against the potato aphid. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 9750–9754.

Walton, J. D. (2006) HC-toxin. Phytochemistry 67: 1406–1413.

Plant Defenses Against Other Organisms

Hewezi, T., and Baum, T. J. (2013) Manipulation of plant cells by cyst and root knot nematode effectors. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 26: 9–16.

Runyon, J. B., Mescher, M. C., and De Moraes, C. M. (2006) Volatile chemical clues guide host location and host selection by parasitic plants. Science 313: 1964–1967.

Web Topics

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