Project description:The endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica is a member of Sebacinales. It colonizes the roots of many plant species including the model plant Arabidospis thaliana (Peskan-Berghofer et al. 2004). P. indica promotes plant growth (Peskan-Berghofer et al. 2004), seed production (Shahollari et al. 2007) and confers resistance to biotic (Camehl et al. 2011) and abiotic stresses (Sherameti et al., 2008, Matsuo et al., 2015). Vadassery et al. (2009) have shown that a cell wall extract from P. indica induces cytoplasmic calcium elevation in Arabidopsis Col-0 roots. Johnson et al. (2017) isolated an ethylmethane-induced mutant cycam (cytoplasmic calcium elevation mutant) which fails to induce cytoplasmic calcium elevation in response to the cell wall preparation. The active compound was identified as cellotriose (CT) (Johnson et al., 2017). The cycam mutant shows a wild-type response to treatment with chitin. The expression profiles compare the response of WT and cycam roots to treatments with CT and chitin. References: Camehl I, Drzewiecki C, Vadassery J, Shahollari B, Sherameti I, Forzani C, Munnik T, Hirt H, Oelmüller R. (2011) The OXI1 kinase pathway mediates Piriformospora indica-induced growth promotion in Arabidopsis. PLoS Pathog. 7(5):e1002051. Johnson JM, Thürich J, Petutschnig EK, Altschmied L, Meichsner D, Sherameti I, Dindas J, Mrozinska A, Paetz C, Scholz S, Furch A, Lipka V, Hedrich R, Schneider B, Svatoš S, Oelmüller R. (2017) Cellotriose-induced cytoplasmic calcium elevation is controlled by a poly(A) ribonuclease in Arabidopsis root. (submitted to elife). Matsuo M, Johnson JM, Hieno A, Tokizawa M, Nomoto M, Tada Y, Godfrey R, Obokata J, Sherameti I, Yamamoto YY, Böhmer FD, Oelmüller R. (2015) High REDOX RESPONSIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR1 Levels Result in Accumulation of Reactive Oxygen Species in Arabidopsis thaliana Shoots and Roots. Mol Plant. 8(8):1253-73. Peškan-Berghöfer T, Shahollari B, Giang PH, Hehl S, Markert C, Blanke V, Varma AK, Oelmüller R. (2004) Association of Piriformospora indica with Arabidopsis thaliana roots represents a novel system to study beneficial plant–microbe interactions and involves early plant protein modifications in the endoplasmatic reticulum and at the plasma membrane. Physiol. Plant. 122: 465–477. Shahollari B, Vadassery J, Varma A, Oelmüller R. (2007) A leucine-rich repeat protein is required for growth promotion and enhanced seed production mediated by the endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 50(1):1-13. Sherameti, I., Tripathi, S., Varma, A., and Oelmüller, R. (2008). The root-colonizing endophyte Pirifomospora indica confers drought tolerance in Arabidopsis by stimulating the expression of drought stress-related genes in leaves. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 21: 799-807. Vadassery, J., Ranf, S., Drzewiecki, C., Mithöfer, A., Mazars, C., Scheel, D., Lee, J., and Oelmüller, R. (2009) A cell wall extract from the endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica promotes growth of Arabidopsis seedlings and induces intracellular calcium elevation in roots. Plant J. 59: 193-206.
2018-02-09 | GSE98880 | GEO
Sylvian Cretton 
