Sustaining plant immunity in rising temperature
Sustaining plant immunity in rising temperature
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DOI:
10.1038/s41422-022-00710-1
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发表时间:
2022-08
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44.1
通讯作者:
J. Hua;Xinnian Dong
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作者:
J. Hua;Xinnian Dong
Upon exposure to high temperature, some plant immune responses are compromised. In a recent Nature paper, Kim et al. show that ectopic expression of transcription factors involved in regulating the immune signal salicylic acid synthesis and signaling could sustain immune competency at high temperature, suggesting a possible engineering strategy for fighting global warming in agriculture.Temperature is a major environmental factor that has a large impact on plants and their interactions with pathogens. The temperature effect on plant immunity is complex, with the most prevalent interaction being the suppression of plant immunity by elevated temperature. 1 This phenomenon was first observed as the complete loss of resistance to tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) when temperature was raised from 22 C to 30 C. 2 This resistance was later found to be conferred by the N gene, which was cloned using a clever selection scheme developed based on the temperature sensitivity of the resistance. 3 The N gene is a founding member of intracellular nucleotide-binding site and leucine-rich repeat domain (NLR) immune receptor genes in plants. Since then, several additional NLRs have been shown to be sensitive to elevated temperature. 4 In addition to inhibiting local resistance to TMV, elevating temperature to 26 C also blocks the establishment of systemic acquired resistance (SAR) in naïve tissues, 5 a broadspectrum resistance mechanism which was later found to require the production of the immune signal salicylic acid (SA). Consistent with these earlier observations, expression of genes involved in SA biosynthesis, such as CBP60g and ICS1, and SA signaling, such as PAD4 and EDS1, was found to be significantly inhibited at 30 C. 6 With global climate change, susceptibility of the plant immune system to heat poses a great threat to global food supply and the ecosystem. How to sustain plant immunity in a warmer climate is an urgent challenge that needs to be overcome. In a recent report in Nature, 7 Kim and colleagues in Sheng Yang He’s group have developed a solution which involves constitutive expression of the CBP60g gene encoding a master transcription factor of a large number of plant immunity genes to restore SA production and disease resistance at elevated temperature. Normally, expression of CBP60g is inhibited by increased temperature due to the reduced number of GBPL defense-activated condensates (GDAC) formed by GUANYLATE BINDING PROTEIN-LIKE 3 (GBPL3) to recruit transcriptional coactivators of the Mediator complex (MED) and the RNA polymerase II (POL II) machinery to the CBP60g promoter. This study reveals GBPL3 as a new temperature sensor in plant immunity based on its physical property, ie, condensate formation, connecting temperature to defense gene transcription (Fig. 1).