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Infection of Arabidopsis by cucumber mosaic virus triggers jasmonateā€dependent resistance to aphids that relies partly on the patternā€triggered immunity factor BAK1

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Tungadi, Trisna 
Watt, Lewis G. 
Groen, Simon C. 
Du, Zhiyou 

Abstract

Abstract: Many aphidā€vectored viruses are transmitted nonpersistently via transient attachment of virus particles to aphid mouthparts and are most effectively acquired or transmitted during brief stylet punctures of epidermal cells. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the aphidā€transmitted virus cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) induces feeding deterrence against the polyphagous aphid Myzus persicae. This form of resistance inhibits prolonged phloem feeding but promotes virus acquisition by aphids because it encourages probing of plant epidermal cells. When aphids are confined on CMVā€infected plants, feeding deterrence reduces their growth and reproduction. We found that CMVā€induced inhibition of growth as well as CMVā€induced inhibition of reproduction of M. persicae are dependent upon jasmonateā€mediated signalling. BRASSINOSTEROID INSENSITIVE1ā€ASSOCIATED KINASE1 (BAK1) is a coā€receptor enabling detection of microbeā€associated molecular patterns and induction of patternā€triggered immunity (PTI). In plants carrying the mutant bak1ā€5 allele, CMV induced inhibition of M. persicae reproduction but not inhibition of aphid growth. We conclude that in wildtype plants CMV induces two mechanisms that diminish performance of M. persicae: a jasmonateā€dependent and PTIā€dependent mechanism that inhibits aphid growth, and a jasmonateā€dependent, PTIā€independent mechanism that inhibits reproduction. The growth of two crucifer specialist aphids, Lipaphis erysimi and Brevicoryne brassicae, was not affected when confined on CMVā€infected A. thaliana. However, B. brassicae reproduction was inhibited on CMVā€infected plants. This suggests that in A. thaliana CMVā€induced resistance to aphids, which is thought to incentivize virus vectoring, has greater effects on polyphagous than on crucifer specialist aphids.

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Funder: Cambridge European Trust; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003343


Funder: Frank Smart Fund Plant Sciences University of Cambridge


Funder: Cambridge Philosophical Society; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100013858

Keywords

ORIGINAL ARTICLE, ORIGINAL ARTICLES, CMV 2b protein, epidemiology, ethylene, jasmonate, PAMPā€triggered immunity, salicylate

Journal Title

Molecular Plant Pathology

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Journal ISSN

1464-6722
1364-3703

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Sponsorship
European Commission (PIIFGAā€2009ā€236443)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/J011762/1, BB/M011194/1, BB/P023223/1)
Leverhulme Trust (F/09741/F, RPGā€2012ā€667)