Claim · model-written summary
PLC2 silencing reduced stomatal closure.
- Taxon
- Nicotiana benthamiana
Nicotiana benthamianat0 - Treatment
- silenced plantse0
- Outcome
- stomatal closuree0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Verbatim
t0“Nicotiana benthamiana”
e0“the expression of flg22-induced PTI marker genes, the oxidative burst, stomatal closure, and callose deposition were all reduced in the silenced plants”
Title
Phosphatidylinositol-phospholipase C2 regulates pattern-triggered immunity in Nicotiana benthamiana
Akinori Kiba; Masahito Nakano; Miki Hosokawa; et al. Journal of Experimental Botany 2020. doi:10.1093/jxb/eraa233
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Observation Two PLC2 orthologs were isolated from the N. benthamiana genome.
- Observation Both PLC2 orthologs were expressed in most tissues.
- Intervention effect Bacterial infiltration induced both PLC2 orthologs.
- Intervention effect Flg22 induced both PLC2 orthologs.
- Intervention effect Double silencing PLC2 produced moderately reduced growth.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing did not affect hypersensitive response induction.
- Intervention effect Bacterial growth accelerated in PLC2 silenced plants challenged with Ralstonia solanacearum.
- Intervention effect Bacterial wilt appeared earlier in PLC2 silenced plants challenged with Ralstonia solanacearum.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing reduced NbPR-4 expression after Ralstonia inoculation.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing decreased jasmonic acid content after Ralstonia inoculation.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing decreased jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine content after Ralstonia inoculation.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing reduced PTI marker gene induction after Ralstonia infiltration.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing reduced PTI marker gene induction after Pseudomonas fluorescens infiltration.
- Intervention effect Flg22 induced resistance was compromised in PLC2 silenced plants.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing reduced flg22 induced PTI marker gene expression.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing reduced the oxidative burst.
- Intervention effect PLC2 silencing reduced callose deposition.
- Mechanism The authors infer PLC2 roles in pre and post invasive PTI defense.