Two-way communication: Volatile emission and uptake occur through the same barriers
Two-way communication: Volatile emission and uptake occur through the same barriers
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双向沟通:挥发性物质的排放和吸收通过相同的屏障发生
DOI:
10.1016/j.molp.2022.11.006
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发表时间:
2023
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影响因子:
27.5
通讯作者:
Dudareva, Natalia
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作者:
Widhalm, Joshua R.;Shih, Meng-Ling;Morgan, John A.;Dudareva, Natalia
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are released from aboveground organs into the atmosphere and/or from roots into the soil, allowing plants to communicate and interact with their environment, including with each other. Plant–plant communication via VOCs includes intra-and inter-species signaling as well as within-plant self-signaling. In some recipient tissues, for example, VOC perception encompasses storing the modified VOC for direct defense against herbivores (Sugimoto et al., 2014) or increasing tolerance to abiotic stresses (Zhao et al., 2020). In addition, or alternatively, perceived VOCs may initiate signaling cascades that prime plant defenses (Brosset and Blande, 2022). In all cases, plant VOCs are first released into the environment before being taken up and perceived by the same or neighboring plants. While significant progress has been made over the last several years to elucidate how VOCs are released from plant cells, these studies have also revealed new questions about how communicated VOCs are imported across cellular barriers. Recent reviews (Loreto and D’Auria, 2022; Wang and Erb, 2022) and a special issue (Vlot and Rosenkranz, 2022) have proposed mechanisms for VOC perception and signaling. In this Opinion piece, we shed light on the gaps in knowledge about VOC import and offer perspectives for future research aiming at understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying VOC-mediated communication in plants.Plant VOCs directly vaporize from damaged cells and trichomes into the environment; however, those emitted from intact tissues must cross subcellular and plasma membranes, the aqueous cell wall, and either the cuticle or air spaces leading to stomata before reaching the environment. VOCs were long assumed to passively diffuse across each cellular barrier. For this to be true, plants would need to accumulate toxic levels of VOCs in cellular membranes to drive observed emission rates (Widhalm et al., 2015). These modeling predictions have since been validated by biochemical and genetic experiments showing that, in petunia flowers, a transporter is needed to traffic VOCs across the plasma membrane (Adebesin et al., 2017) and non-specific lipid transfer proteins facilitate VOC movement across the hydrophilic cell wall (Liao et al., 2022). In non-vegetative aerial tissues, the cuticle serves as a sink/concentrator for VOCs to modulate emission and protect cells from accumulating VOCs to toxic levels (Liao et al., 2021). VOCs in vegetative tissues may also take the same initial path but are more likely to diffuse from the cell wall into air spaces for release via stomata (Niinemets et al., 2014).