Week of August 25

Plant Pathology 692

Systemic Acquired Resistance

Assignments

Monday

• G. Loake and M. Grant (2007) Salicylic acid in plant defence - the players and protagonists. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 10:466-72
• C. Vlot et al. (2008) Systemic acquired resistance: the elusive signal(s). Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 11:436-42
• M. Grant and C. Lamb (2006) Systemic immunity. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 9:414–420

Wednesday

Friday

• S.-W. Park et al. (2007) Methyl salicylate is a critical mobile signal for plant systemic acquired resistance. Science 318:113-16 Brian
• Y. Tada et al. (2008) Plant immunity requires conformational charges of NPR1 via S-nitrosylation and thioredoxins. Science 321:952-56 Charles

Lecture slides and additional reading

Slides

Additional reading:

• Zhang, Y., Tessaro, M.J., Lassner, M., and Li, X. (2004) Knockout analysis of Arabidopsis transcription factors TGA2, TGA5, and TGA6 reveals their redundant and essential roles in systemic acquired resistance. Plant Cell. 15:2647–2653

• Desveaux, D., Subramaniam, R., Despres, C., Mess, J.-N., Levesque, C., Fobert, P. R., Dangl, J. L., Brisson, N. (2004) A ìWhirlyî transcription factor is required for salicylic acid-dependent disease resistance in Arabidopsis. Dev. Cell 6:229–240
• Forouhar, F., Yang, Y., Kumar, D., Chen, Y., Fridman, E., Park, S. W., Chiang, Y., Acton, T. B., Montelione, G. T., Pichersky, E., Klessig, D. F., and Tong, L. (2004) Structural and biochemical studies identify tobacco SABP2 as a methyl salicylate esterase and implicate it in plant innate immunity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102:1773-1778

• Dong, X. (2004) NPR1, all things considered. Curr. Opinion Plant Biol. 7:547–552

• Durrant WE, Dong X. (2004) Systemic acquired resistance. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 42:185-209Pieterse, C.M.J., Van Loon, L.C. (2004) NPR1: the spider in the web of induced resistance signaling pathways. Curr. Opinion Plant Biol. 7:456–464

• Ryals, J. et al. (1996) Systemic acquired resistance. Plant Cell. 8:1809-1819.

• Despres C, Chubak C, Rochon A, Clark R, Bethune T, Desveaux D, Fobert PR. (2003) The Arabidopsis NPR1 disease resistance protein is a novel cofactor that confers redox regulation of DNA binding activity to the basic domain/leucine zipper transcription factor TGA1. Plant Cell. 15:2181-91
• Mou, Z., Fan, W., and Dong, X. (2003) Inducers of plant systemic acquired resistance regulate NPR1 function through redox changes. Cell 113:935–944
• Heidel, A. J., Dong, X. (2006) Fitness benefits of systemic acquired resistance during Hyaloperonospora parasitica Infection in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 173:1621–1628
• Nandi, A., Welti, R., and Shah, J. (2004) The Arabidopsis thaliana dihydroxyacetone phosphate r eductase gene SUPPRESSOR OF FATTY ACID DESATURASE DEFICIENCY1 is required for glycerolipid metabolism and for the activation of systemic acquired resistance. Plant Cell. 16:465–477