{"title":"Allelopathic potential of aqueous leaf extract of Rumex dentatus L. on metabolites and enzyme activities of common purslane leaves","authors":"H. El-Shora, M. M. Alharbi, D. Darwish, Dina Gad","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2022.2028915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2022.2028915","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study was conducted to investigate the allelopathic activity of Rumex dentatus aqueous leaf extract on metabolites, reactive oxygen species (ROS), and enzymes activities in Portulaca oleraceae. The results showed a reduction of carbohydrates, protein, DNA, and RNA contents. However, the total phenolics, total flavonoids, and malondialdehyde were enhanced. The ROS such as hydrogen peroxide, superoxide radicals, and hydroxyl radicals were increased in concentration-dependent manner. The activities of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphoglucnate dehydrogenase, nitrate reductase, and glutamine synthetase were reduced in Portulaca leaves as the concentration of Rumex extract increased; however the activities of NADH-oxidase and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase were increased under treatment with the various tested concentrations of Rumex extract. Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry profile of aqueous Rumex extract was performed for the detection of the dominant compounds that may reveal the impact on Portulaca metabolites and enzymes activities.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"267 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42979206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luisa Liu-Xu, B. Vicedo, P. García-Agustín, E. Llorens
{"title":"Advances in endophytic fungi research: a data analysis of 25 years of achievements and challenges","authors":"Luisa Liu-Xu, B. Vicedo, P. García-Agustín, E. Llorens","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2022.2032429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2022.2032429","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research on fungal endophytes has demonstrated the ability to improve crop performance and protect host plants against diverse biotic and abiotic stresses. Yet, despite the exponential growth of this topic, a whole outline to reflect the relevance and extent of each study type is missing. Hence, we performed an analysis of all available literature to expose the characteristics and limitations of this research field. Our results suggested that, overall, there is still a tendency to study the most known models in plant-fungal-stress combinations (ascomycetous fungi, grasses, abiotic stress). Fungal endophytes in dicot plants or against biotic stress, though promising, are still quite unexplored. All these data could lead future studies to assess less considered study factors that might help discern the beneficial effects of fungal endophytes with more extent and accuracy.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"244 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44960976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Burkholderia sp. and Pseudomonas spp. inoculation on growth, yield, and absorption of inorganic components in tomato ‘Micro-Tom’ under salinity conditions","authors":"Hiroki Nakahara, N. Matsuzoe, T. Taniguchi, P. An","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2022.2035439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2022.2035439","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We screened four strains (Burkholderia sp. St-A, and Pseudomonas spp. St-B, St-C, and St-D) from 21 bacterial isolates isolated tomato cultivation fields based on their plant growth-promoting traits. Then, tomato (‘Micro-Tom’) seedlings inoculated with each of the four selected strains were grown under non-salinity and salinity (NaCl) treatment conditions. Under non-salinity conditions, St-C and St-D strains increased the total biomass of roots, stems, and leaves and fruit yield. Under NaCl treatment conditions, St-B, St-C, and St-D strains increased total biomass and fruit yield. In roots, Na content was not suppressed, but K, P, and water content were increased by bacterial inoculations. Correlation analysis showed a significant and positive relationship between fruit yield and root under both non-salinity and salinity conditions. This indicates that the maintenance of homeostasis and water relations in roots may contribute to the improvement of plant growth, including root and fruit yield, under salinity conditions.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"277 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46173540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Lawrence, M. Blackburn, J. Shao, Nicole G. Novak
{"title":"The response to cabbage looper infestation in Arabidopsis is altered by lowering levels of Zat18 a Q-type C2H2 zinc finger protein","authors":"S. Lawrence, M. Blackburn, J. Shao, Nicole G. Novak","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2021.2024285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2021.2024285","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Q-type C2H2 zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) play a role in plant stress response. Overexpression of individual ZFPs enhances tolerance to abiotic stresses such as drought or salt. Overexpression of ZFP, Zat18 enhances tolerance to drought, whereas plants with lower amounts are less resilient. The effect of Zat18 loss on gene expression has not been characterized. Overexpression of an ortholog of Zat18 in potato, StZFP2 enhances tolerance to infestation by Manduca sexta. This work focuses on two Zat18 mutant lines, a knockout and knockdown. The two lines differ in response to infestation. Typically, a chewing insect induces the jasmonic acid (JA) pathway. While infestation induces JA pathway genes, Zat18 mutant lines downregulate abscisic acid signaling and induce ethylene signaling genes ERF1 and EBF2 as well as salicylic acid response gene NPR3. Knockdown Zat18, cause far more changes in the infestation response compared with Col-0 or the Zat18 knockout line.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"198 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45051629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naila Ilyas, Ying-Jie Yang, Chengsheng Zhang, R. Singh, Qiu-Xian Yu, Yuan Yuan, Xiangwei You, Yiqiang Li
{"title":"Temporal dynamics and variation in the alfalfa root nodule and rhizosphere microbial communities of coastal sand and lawn soil","authors":"Naila Ilyas, Ying-Jie Yang, Chengsheng Zhang, R. Singh, Qiu-Xian Yu, Yuan Yuan, Xiangwei You, Yiqiang Li","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2021.2024899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2021.2024899","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Medicago sativa L. (alfalfa), a leguminous crop, is vital globally for forage, crop rotation, and soil fertility. Though, the microbiome of alfalfa grown in uncultivated land has not been studied yet. Here, we employed the high-throughput 16S rRNA and nifH gene amplicon sequencing to unravel the rhizosphere microbiome and nodules endosymbionts of alfalfa grown in poor lawn and coastal sandy soils. The root nodule of alfalfa of coastal sands and poor lawn soil, Sinorhizobia/Ensifer accounted for 80.599% and 67.727% of the total microbiome, respectively. The class Actinobacteria (except Frankiales) and order Rhizobiales, Sphingomonadales, Burkholderiales, Pseudomonas, and Cytophagia were found significantly enriched. Culturable studies displayed the dominance of Bacillus followed by Arthrobacter, Microbacterium, and Streptomyces. Hydroponics studies revealed the efficiency of cultured isolates for nodulation and plant growth attributes. Overall studies decipher the soil indigenous microbiome associated with root nodule and rhizosphere of Alfalfa grown in uncultivated coastal and sandy land.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"173 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44049409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Li Wang, Wanxia Jiang, Wuhua Zhang, Weitong Chen, Yu Mo, Tong Zhou, Jinzhu Zhang, D. Che
{"title":"Molecular evidence to the day length in regulating the short shoot phenomenon during summer in roses (Rosa sp.)","authors":"Li Wang, Wanxia Jiang, Wuhua Zhang, Weitong Chen, Yu Mo, Tong Zhou, Jinzhu Zhang, D. Che","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2021.2018512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2021.2018512","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The short shoot phenomenon is an important phenotype underlying the economic value of roses – node number can directly affect shoot length. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of how day length affects shoot length, the effect of 8, 10, and 12 h day lengths on node number were studied. The number of nodes between the 8 and 12 h treatment groups significantly differed. Node development in the 12 h treatment group occurred significantly earlier than that in the 8 and 10 h treatment groups and the number of nodes reached a maximum on the third day. Using RNA-seq analysis, we identified candidate genes that regulated shoot length; these were involved in the abscisic acid synthesis pathway and auxin signal transduction and synthesis pathways. Furthermore, the abscisic acid content in the shoot tip decreased with an increasing day length, while the auxin content increased with day length.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"140 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43627703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Baqi, Voon-Ching Lim, Hafiz Yazid, F. A. Anwarali Khan, C. J. Lian, B. Nelson, Jaya Seelan Sathiya Seelan, S. Appalasamy, Seri Intan Mokhtar, J. Kumaran
{"title":"A review of durian plant-bat pollinator interactions","authors":"A. Baqi, Voon-Ching Lim, Hafiz Yazid, F. A. Anwarali Khan, C. J. Lian, B. Nelson, Jaya Seelan Sathiya Seelan, S. Appalasamy, Seri Intan Mokhtar, J. Kumaran","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2021.2015466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2021.2015466","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Durian (Durio zibethinus) brings in princely revenue for the fruit economy in Southeast Asia, ushering the current trend of clearing forests for durian plantations. Despite the thorny fruit’s popularity and increasing bat-durian papers, not many associate their vital plant-pollinator relationship. This unfamiliarity has led to the persisting negative connotations of bats as agricultural pests and worse, a disease carrier amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic. This review focuses on the bat-durian relationship comprising botanical insights and pollination ecology in relevance to the wider pteropodid-plant interactions. The majority of the studies compiled have concluded that bats are the most effective pollinator for durian than insects. Six fruit bat species (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) have been recorded pollinating durian flowers, with several other pteropodid species speculated to pollinate durian, including in non-native countries. Lastly, we address the research gaps for the bat-durian relationship, which can also be applied to other chiropterophilous plants.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"105 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45400365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronald Marentes-Culma, Carolina Cuellar-Cuestas, H. Ardila, E. Coy-Barrera
{"title":"5-n-alkylresorcinol-based metabolic response of rice to the interaction with Burkholderia glumae: a chemical characterization of the temporal and spatial variations depending on environmental conditions","authors":"Ronald Marentes-Culma, Carolina Cuellar-Cuestas, H. Ardila, E. Coy-Barrera","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2021.2017036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2021.2017036","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Burkholderia glumae is a relevant worldwide pathogen of rice. B. glumae unfavorably affects the throughput of rice crops provoking seedling death and blight panicles. Different intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence the interaction, the host physiological response and its metabolic performance, e.g. biosynthesis of protecting metabolites such as 5-n-alkylresorcinols (AR). However, the metabolic responses of rice interacting with B. glumae and involving different factors are still unraveled. Thus, AR variations in two Colombian rice genotypes, grown in two climatically different locations and inoculated independently with two B. glumae strains were evaluated through total AR content and LC-MS-based characterization. AR accumulated in rice plants at different levels depending on genotypes, plant parts and phenological stages. Rice genotypes were affected by pathogen inoculation, promoting AR variations. Such pathogen-mediated influence was also affected by the test factors. This AR-based rice response against B. glumae constitutes a contribution to understand better this biotic interaction.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"127 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48563742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcriptome profiling revealed heat stress-responsive genes in Arabidopsis through integrated bioinformatics analysis","authors":"Meili Guo, Xin Liu, Jiahui Wang, Yusu Jiang, Jinhuan Yu, Jing Gao","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2021.2014580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2021.2014580","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Heat stress is an environmental challenge that reduces plant productivity and growth. Plants have developed corresponding mechanisms to survive this adverse environmental stress. To demonstrate the mechanisms of how plants adapt to the environmental challenge, the heat response experiments involving Arabidopsis thaliana were retrieved from the GEO database. After quantile normalization of the GEO raw data, the differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in response to heat stress were identified by robust rank aggregation (RRA) algorithm, including 384 up-regulated and 302 down-regulated genes. Then, systematic bioinformatics analyses disclosed that the up-regulated DEGs were mainly related to protein refolding, abscisic acid catabolic process, potassium ion import, response to hydrogen peroxide, cytochrome complex assembly, and apoptotic process, and the down-regulated DEGs were involved in microsporocyte differentiation, syncytium formation, adventitious development, glutathione metabolism, and glycine metabolic process. The up-regulated DEGs also had more complicated PPI interactions than the down-regulated DEGs, and potential core genes of heat stress tolerance were provided. Furthermore, the mRNA expression of core genes Hsp70-2 (At5g02490), Hsp70-3 (At3g09440), and Hsp70-4 (At3g12580) has been measured to validate the outcome of integrated bioinformatics analysis. Our work will extend our understanding of heat-responsive mechanisms and these DEGs might be potential markers for plant heat stress-resistance studies.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"85 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41650645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dao-Jun Guo, Dong-ping Li, R. Singh, Pratiksha Singh, K. Verma, Anjney Sharma, Ying-Zhi Qin, Q. Khan, Xiu‐Peng Song, M. Malviya, Y. Xing, Yang‐Rui Li
{"title":"Comparative transcriptome analysis of two sugarcane varieties in response to diazotrophic plant growth promoting endophyte Enterobacter roggenkampii ED5","authors":"Dao-Jun Guo, Dong-ping Li, R. Singh, Pratiksha Singh, K. Verma, Anjney Sharma, Ying-Zhi Qin, Q. Khan, Xiu‐Peng Song, M. Malviya, Y. Xing, Yang‐Rui Li","doi":"10.1080/17429145.2021.2012608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17429145.2021.2012608","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Diazotrophic plant growth-promoting endophytic (DPGPEB) bacterium plays an important role in plant growth and development. However, the molecular mechanism of the interaction between DPGPEB and sugarcane is still less known. In this study, we used the RNA sequencing technology to compare the transcriptome of two sugarcane varieties GT11and B8 inoculated with Enterobacter roggenkampii ED5. The results showed that a total of 1905 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were obtained in the ED5 inoculated plants as compared to the control for variety GT11, of which 812 were down-regulated and 1093 were up-regulated, respectively. Whereas, for variety B8, 6214 DEGs were detected in the ED5 inoculated plants as compared to the control, of which 1587 and 4627 of down-regulated and up-regulated, respectively. Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analyses showed the DEGs were associated with starch and sucrose, nitrogen metabolism, biosynthesis of phenylpropanoid, phytohormone signal transduction, MAPK signaling pathway, secondary metabolic pathway, cell wall biogenesis, and photosynthesis. Additionally, the results of RNA-seq data were validated with qRT-PCR. In summary, these results provide valuable information about the transcriptomic changes of the two sugarcane varieties in response to E. roggenkampii ED5 for understanding the molecular mechanisms of sugarcane-bacteria interactions.","PeriodicalId":16830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plant Interactions","volume":"17 1","pages":"75 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45312527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}