Silencing of phosphoinositide dependent protein kinase orthologs reduces hypersensitive cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana.

ABSTRACT: Phosphatidic acid plays an important role in plant immune responses against phytopathogenic bacteria in Nicotiana benthamiana. Here we focused on phosphoinositide dependent protein kinases (PDKs) as a candidate required for phosphatidic acid signaling. Based on Arabidopsis PDK sequences, we identified four putative PDK orthologs in N. benthamiana genome. To address the role of PDKs in plant defense responses, we created all four NbPDKs-silenced plants by virus-induced gene silencing. the NbPDKs-silenced plants showed a moderately reduced growth phenotype. Induction of hypersensitive cell death was compromised in the NbPDKs-silenced plants challenged with Ralstonia solanacearum. The hypersensitive cell death induced by bacterial effectors was

SUBMITTER: Kiba A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7557664 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature