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Reference Report for AP20210713.2
Title:Glycerol-3-phosphate mediates rhizobia-induced systemic signaling in soybean
Authors:Shine, M. B., Gao, Q., Chowda-Reddy, R. V., Singh, A. K., Kachroo, P., Kachroo, A.
Source:Shine et al. 2019 Nat Commun, 10:5303
Abstract:Glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P) is a well-known mobile regulator of systemic acquired resistance (SAR), which provides broad spectrum systemic immunity in response to localized foliar pathogenic infections. We show that G3P-derived foliar immunity is also activated in response to genetically-regulated incompatible interactions with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Using gene knock-down we show that G3P is essential for strain-specific exclusion of non-desirable root-nodulating bacteria and the associated foliar pathogen immunity in soybean. Grafting studies show that while recognition of rhizobium incompatibility is root driven, bacterial exclusion requires G3P biosynthesis in the shoot. Biochemical analyses support shoot-to-root transport of G3P during incompatible rhizobia interaction. We describe a root-shoot-root signaling mechanism which simultaneously enables the plant to exclude non-desirable nitrogen-fixing rhizobia in theroot and pathogenic microbes in theshoot.






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