Active photosynthetic inhibition mediated by MPK3/MPK6 is critical to effector-triggered immunity.

ABSTRACT: Extensive research revealed tremendous details about how plants sense pathogen effectors during effector-triggered immunity (ETI). However, less is known about downstream signaling events. In this report, we demonstrate that prolonged activation of MPK3 and MPK6, two Arabidopsis pathogen-responsive mitogen-activated protein kinases (MPKs), is essential to ETI mediated by both coiled coil-nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeats (CNLs) and toll/interleukin-1 receptor nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeats (TNLs) types of R proteins. MPK3/MPK6 activation rapidly alters the expression of photosynthesis-related genes and inhibits photosynthesis, which promotes the accumulation of superoxide ([Formula: see text]) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), two major reactive oxygen species (ROS), i

SUBMITTER: Su J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5953503 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature