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LA JOLLA\u2014Just like humans and other animals, plants have hormones. One role of plant hormones is to perceive trouble\u2014whether an insect attack, drought or intense heat or cold\u2014and then signal to the rest of the plant to respond.<\/p>\n

A multicenter team led by current and former investigators from the Salk Institute is reporting new details about how plants respond to a hormone called jasmonic acid, or jasmonate. The findings, which were published in Nature Plants<\/i><\/em><\/a> on March 13, 2020, reveal a complex communication network. This knowledge could help researchers, such as members of Salk\u2019s \u690d\u7269\u5229\u7528\u8ba1\u5212<\/a>, develop crops that are hardier and more able to withstand assault, especially in an era of rapid climate change.<\/p>\n

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Caption: Arabidopsis thaliana<\/em>, a small flowering plant in the mustard family.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Salk Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis research gives us a really detailed picture of how this hormone, jasmonic acid, acts at many different levels,\u201d says Professor \u7ea6\u745f\u592b\u00b7\u57c3\u514b\u5c14<\/a>, co-corresponding author\u00a0and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. \u201cIt enables us to understand how environmental information and developmental information is processed, and how it ensures proper growth and development.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plant used in the study was Arabidopsis thaliana<\/i><\/em>, a small flowering plant in the mustard family. Because its genome has been well characterized, this plant is a popular model system. Scientists can take what they learn in A. thaliana<\/i><\/em> and apply it to other plants, including those grown for food. Jasmonic acid is found not only in A. thaliana<\/i><\/em> but throughout the plant kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cJasmonic acid is particularly important for a plant\u2019s defense response against fungi and insects,\u201d says co-first author Mark Zander, a staff researcher in Ecker\u2019s lab. \u201cWe wanted to precisely understand what happens after jasmonic acid is perceived by the plant. Which genes are activated and deactivated, which proteins are produced and which factors are in control of these well-orchestrated cellular processes?\u201d<\/p>\n

The researchers started with plant seeds grown in petri dishes. They kept the seeds in the dark for three days to mimic the first few days of a seed\u2019s life, when it is still underground. \u201cWe know this growth stage is super important,\u201d says co-first author and co-corresponding author Mathew Lewsey, an associate professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, who previously worked in Ecker\u2019s lab. The first few days in the soil are a challenging time for seedlings, as they face attacks from insects and fungi. \u201cIf your seeds don\u2019t germinate and successfully emerge from the soil, then you will have no crop,\u201d Lewsey adds.<\/p>\n

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From left: Mathew Lewsey, Joseph Ecker and Mark Zander.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Salk Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After three days, the plants were exposed to jasmonic acid. The researchers then extracted the DNA and proteins from the plant cells and employed specific antibodies against their proteins of interest to capture the exact genomic location of these regulators. By using various computational approaches, the team was then able to identify genes that are important for the plant\u2019s response to jasmonic acid and, moreover, for the cellular cross-communication with other plant hormone pathways.<\/p>\n

Two genes that rose to the top in their degree of importance across the system were MYC2 and MYC3. These genes code for proteins that are transcription factors, which means that they regulate the activity of many other genes\u2014or thousands of other genes in this case.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past, the MYC genes and other transcription factors have been studied in a very linear fashion,\u201d Lewsey explains. \u201cScientists look at how one gene is connected to the next gene, and the next one, and so on. This method is inherently slow because there are a lot of genes and lots of connections. What we\u2019ve done here is to create a framework by which we can analyze many genes at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBy deciphering all of these gene networks and subnetworks, it helps us to understand the architecture of the whole system,\u201d Zander says. \u201cWe now have this very comprehensive picture of which genes are turned on and off during a plant\u2019s defense response. With the availability of CRISPR gene editing, these kinds of details can be useful for breeding crops that are able to better withstand attacks from pests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another noteworthy aspect of this work is that all of the data from the research has been made available<\/a> on Salk\u2019s website. Researchers can use the site to search for more information about genes they study and find ways to target them.<\/p>\n

Other authors of the study included Anna Bartlett, J. Paola Saldierna Guzma\u0301n, Elizabeth Hann, Amber E. Langford, Bruce Jow, Joseph R. Nery and Huaming Chen of Salk; Lingling Yin of La Trobe University; Natalie M. Clark and Justin W. Walley of Iowa State University; Aaron Wise and Ziv Bar-Joseph of Carnegie Mellon University; and Roberto Solano of Centro Nacional de Biotecnologi\u0301a, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cienti\u0301ficas in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n

The work was funded by a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft research fellowship and an EU Marie Curie FP7 International Outgoing Fellowship, and by grants from the National Science Foundation; the National Institutes of Health (R01GM120316); the Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-04ER15517); the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF3034); the Ministry of Economy (BIO2016-77216-R), Industry and Competitiveness of Spain; the ISU Plant Sciences Institute; and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":25971,"template":"","faculty":[42],"disease-research":[450,125,451,452],"class_list":["post-25969","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-joseph-ecker","disease-research-climate-change","disease-research-plant-biology","disease-research-plant-genomics","disease-research-plant-physiology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow plants sound the alarm about danger - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/zh\/news-release\/how-plants-sound-the-alarm-about-danger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_CN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How plants sound the alarm about danger - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LA JOLLA\u2014Just like humans and other animals, plants have hormones. 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