WOUND-INDUCED CHANGES IN ROOT AND SHOOT JASMONIC ACID POOLS CORRELATE WITH INDUCED NICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN NICOTIANA-SYLVESTRIS SPEGAZZINI AND COMES
WOUND-INDUCED CHANGES IN ROOT AND SHOOT JASMONIC ACID POOLS CORRELATE WITH INDUCED NICOTINE SYNTHESIS IN NICOTIANA-SYLVESTRIS SPEGAZZINI AND COMES
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02066250
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发表时间:
1994-08-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
OHNMEISS, TE
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作者:
BALDWIN, IT;SCHMELZ, EA;OHNMEISS, TE
Leaf damage by herbivores in Nicotiana sylvestris Spegazzini and Comes (Solanaceae) produces a damage signal that dramatically increases de novo nicotine synthesis in the roots. The increased synthesis leads to increases in whole-plant nicotine pools, which in tum make plants more resistant to further herbivore attack. Because signal production and the response to the signal occur in widely separated tissues, the speed with which different damage signals exit a damaged leaf can be studied. We propose that electrical damage signals should exit a leaf faster (less than 60 min) than chemical damage signals. Excision of a leaf induces a smaller increase in nicotine production than does puncture damage, so we examined our proposition by excising previously punctured leaves at 1, 60, and 960 min after leaf puncture and quantifying the induced whole-plant nicotine pools six days later when the induced nicotine production had reached a maximum. Significant induced nicotine production occurred only if punctured leaves were excised more than 1 hr after puncture, which is consistent with the characteristics of a slow-moving chemical signal rather than a fast-moving electrical signal. We explore the nature of the chemical signal and demonstrate that additions of 90 mug or more of methyl jasmonate (MJ) in an aqueous solution to the roots of hydroponically grown plants induce de novo nicotine synthesis from (NO3)-N-15 in a manner similar to that induced by leaf damage. We examine the hypothesis that jasmonic acid (JA) functions in the transfer of the damage signal from shoot to root. Using GC-MS techniques to quantify whole-plant JA pools, we demonstrate that leaf damage rapidly (