The enigmatic hypersensitive response: induction, execution and role
The enigmatic hypersensitive response: induction, execution and role
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神秘的超敏反应:诱导、执行和角色
DOI:
10.1006/pmpp.1999.0217
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
M. C. Heath
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作者:
M. C. Heath
For the first issue of PMPP in its new format, it is perhaps fitting that in this editorial and in two invited articles we take a somewhat dierent, if not totally iconoclastic, look at a long-standing enigma of plant pathology—the hypersensitive response (HR). Why disease resistance in plants should be almost ubiquitously associated with rapid, localized plant cell death has been a source of debate ever since the HR was first clearly identified by Stakman in 1915 [18]. In 1976, as a young and enthusiastic researcher, the then current controversy over the role of the HR moved me to write a Letter to the Editor entitled ‘‘Hypersensitivity: the cause or the consequence of rust resistance?’’ in which I warned against assuming that the HR is a single phenomenon with a single role [9]. Conceptually, not much has changed in the elapsing twenty-three years, and in a Commentary for this issue, Richael and Gilchrist [16] revisit the role of hypersensitive cell death in disease resistance and point out that there still is a gap between perception and reality in how we view this response. It has long been recognized that hypersensitive cell death can generate signals that cause local or systemic changes in the plant. Looking at this from a somewhat unusual angle, Graham and Graham [6] in this issue review data that suggests that hypersensitive cell death is necessary to trigger the competency of surrounding living cells to respond to elicitors of defence responses. They also present the interesting hypothesis that these ‘‘competent’’ surrounding cells enter a hypersensitive cell death programme that is ‘‘rescued’’ by scavengers of active oxygen species and this is necessary for the cell to perform the metabolic functions associated with localized tissue defence.