Amino Acid Homeostasis Modulates Salicylic Acid–Associated Redox Status and Defense Responses inArabidopsis
Open Access
- 1 November 2010
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in THE PLANT CELL ONLINE
- Vol. 22 (11), 3845-3863
- https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.110.079392
Abstract
The tight association between nitrogen status and pathogenesis has been broadly documented in plant–pathogen interactions. However, the interface between primary metabolism and disease responses remains largely unclear. Here, we show that knockout of a single amino acid transporter, LYSINE HISTIDINE TRANSPORTER1 (LHT1), is sufficient for Arabidopsis thaliana plants to confer a broad spectrum of disease resistance in a salicylic acid–dependent manner. We found that redox fine-tuning in photosynthetic cells was causally linked to the lht1 mutant-associated phenotypes. Furthermore, the enhanced resistance in lht1 could be attributed to a specific deficiency of its main physiological substrate, Gln, and not to a general nitrogen deficiency. Thus, by enabling nitrogen metabolism to moderate the cellular redox status, a plant primary metabolite, Gln, plays a crucial role in plant disease resistance.Keywords
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