Tuning the Wavelength: Manipulation of Light Signaling to Control Plant Defense.

ABSTRACT: The growth-defense trade-off in plants is a phenomenon whereby plants must balance the allocation of their resources between developmental growth and defense against attack by pests and pathogens. Consequently, there are a series of points where growth signaling can negatively regulate defenses and where defense signaling can inhibit growth. Light perception by various photoreceptors has a major role in the control of growth and thus many points where it can influence defense. Plant pathogens secrete effector proteins to manipulate defense signaling in their hosts. Evidence is emerging that some of these effectors target light signaling pathways. Several effectors from different kingdoms of life have converged on key chloroplast processes to take advantage of regulatory crosstalk. Moreover

SUBMITTER: Breen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9958957 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature