In:
Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 12 ( 2021-4-9)
Abstract:
Coprinopsis cinerea lectin 2 (CCL2) is a fucoside-binding lectin from the basidiomycete C. cinerea that is toxic to the bacterivorous nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as well as animal-parasitic and fungivorous nematodes. We expressed CCL2 in Arabidopsis to assess its protective potential toward plant-parasitic nematodes. Our results demonstrate that expression of CCL2 enhances host resistance against the cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii . Surprisingly, CCL2-expressing plants were also more resistant to fungal pathogens including Botrytis cinerea , and the phytopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas syringae . In addition, CCL2 expression positively affected plant growth indicating that CCL2 has the potential to improve two important agricultural parameters namely biomass production and general disease resistance. The mechanism of the CCL2-mediated enhancement of plant disease resistance depended on fucoside-binding by CCL2 as transgenic plants expressing a mutant version of CCL2 (Y92A), compromised in fucoside-binding, exhibited wild type (WT) disease susceptibility. The protective effect of CCL2 did not seem to be direct as the lectin showed no growth-inhibition toward B. cinerea in in vitro assays. We detected, however, a significantly enhanced transcriptional induction of plant defense genes in CCL2- but not CCL2-Y92A-expressing lines in response to infection with B. cinerea compared to WT plants. This study demonstrates a potential of fungal defense lectins in plant protection beyond their use as toxins.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1664-462X
DOI:
10.3389/fpls.2021.657451
DOI:
10.3389/fpls.2021.657451.s001
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Frontiers Media SA
Publication Date:
2021
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