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YODA Kinase Controls a Novel Immune Pathway of Tomato Conferring Enhanced Disease Resistance to the Bacterium Pseudomonas syringae.


ABSTRACT: Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) play pivotal roles in transducing developmental cues and environmental signals into cellular responses through pathways initiated by MAPK kinase kinases (MAP3K). AtYODA is a MAP3K of Arabidopsis thaliana that controls stomatal development and non-canonical immune responses. Arabidopsis plants overexpressing a constitutively active YODA protein (AtCA-YDA) show broad-spectrum disease resistance and constitutive expression of defensive genes. We tested YDA function in crops immunity by heterologously overexpressing AtCA-YDA in Solanum lycopersicum. We found that these tomato AtCA-YDA plants do not show developmental phenotypes and fitness alterations, except a reduction in stomatal index, as reported in Arabidopsis AtCA-YDA plants. Notably, AtCA-YDA tomato plants show enhanced resistance to the bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 and constitutive upregulation of defense-associated genes, corroborating the functionality of YDA in tomato immunity. This function was further supported by generating CRISPR/Cas9-edited tomato mutants impaired in the closest orthologs of AtYDA [Solyc08g081210 (SlYDA1) and Solyc03g025360 (SlYDA2)]. Slyda1 and Slyda2 mutants are highly susceptible to P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000 in comparison to wild-type plants but only Slyda2 shows altered stomatal index. These results indicate that tomato orthologs have specialized functions and support that YDA also regulates immune responses in tomato and may be a trait for breeding disease resistance.

SUBMITTER: Tellez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7591502 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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YODA Kinase Controls a Novel Immune Pathway of Tomato Conferring Enhanced Disease Resistance to the Bacterium <i>Pseudomonas syringae</i>.

Téllez Julio J   Muñoz-Barrios Antonio A   Sopeña-Torres Sara S   Martín-Forero Amanda F AF   Ortega Alfonso A   Pérez Rosa R   Sanz Yolanda Y   Borja Marisé M   de Marcos Alberto A   Nicolas Michael M   Jahrmann Torben T   Mena Montaña M   Jordá Lucía L   Molina Antonio A  

Frontiers in plant science 20201014


Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) play pivotal roles in transducing developmental cues and environmental signals into cellular responses through pathways initiated by MAPK kinase kinases (MAP3K). AtYODA is a MAP3K of <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> that controls stomatal development and non-canonical immune responses. <i>Arabidopsis</i> plants overexpressing a constitutively active YODA protein (<i>AtCA-YDA</i>) show broad-spectrum disease resistance and constitutive expression of defensive g  ...[more]

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