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Botrytis cinerea induces local hypoxia in Arabidopsis leaves.


ABSTRACT: Low oxygen availability often is associated with soil waterlogging or submergence, but may occur also as hypoxic niches in otherwise aerobic tissues. Experimental evidence assigns a role in Botrytis cinerea resistance to a group of oxygen-unstable Ethylene Response Factors (ERF-VII). Given that infection by B. cinerea often occurs in aerobic organs such as leaves, where ERF-VII stability should be compromised, we explored the possibility of local leaf hypoxia at the site of infection. We analyzed the expression of hypoxia-responsive genes in infected leaves. Confocal microscopy was utilized to verify the localization of the ERF-VII protein RAP2.12. Oxygen concentration was measured to evaluate the availability of oxygen (O2 ). We discovered that infection by B. cinerea induces increased respiration, leading to a drastic drop in the O2 concentration in an otherwise fully aerobic leaf. The establishment of a local hypoxic area results in stabilization and nuclear relocalization of RAP2.12. The possible roles of defence elicitors, ABA and ethylene were evaluated. Local hypoxia at the site of B. cinerea infection allows the stabilization of ERF-VII proteins. Hypoxia at the site of pathogen infection generates a nearly O2 -free environment that may affect the stability of other N-degron-regulated proteins as well as the metabolism of elicitors.

SUBMITTER: Valeri MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7754360 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Botrytis cinerea induces local hypoxia in Arabidopsis leaves.

Valeri Maria Cristina MC   Novi Giacomo G   Weits Daan A DA   Mensuali Anna A   Perata Pierdomenico P   Loreti Elena E  

The New phytologist 20200406 1


Low oxygen availability often is associated with soil waterlogging or submergence, but may occur also as hypoxic niches in otherwise aerobic tissues. Experimental evidence assigns a role in Botrytis cinerea resistance to a group of oxygen-unstable Ethylene Response Factors (ERF-VII). Given that infection by B. cinerea often occurs in aerobic organs such as leaves, where ERF-VII stability should be compromised, we explored the possibility of local leaf hypoxia at the site of infection. We analyze  ...[more]

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