ArticlePlant physiology2007
Cross-species translocation of mRNA from host plants into the parasitic plant dodder.
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- Study on the Applications and Regulatory Mechanisms of Grafting on Vegetables.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Genomic and Epigenomic Mechanisms of the Interaction between Parasitic and Host Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Large-scale mRNA transfer betweeniScience · 2023Article
- Exact Bayesian inference for the detection of graft-mobile transcripts from sequencing data.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
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Abstract
An intriguing new paradigm in plant biology is that systemically mobile mRNAs play a role in coordinating development. In this process, specific mRNAs are loaded into the phloem transport stream for translocation to distant tissues, where they may impact on developmental processes. However, despite its potential significance for plant growth regulation, mRNA trafficking remains poorly understood and challenging to study. Here, we show that phloem-mobile mRNAs can also traffic between widely divergent species from a host to the plant parasite lespedeza dodder (Cuscuta pentagona Engelm.). Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and microarray analysis were used to detect specific tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) transcripts in dodder grown on tomato that were not present in control dodder grown on other host species. Foreign transcripts included LeGAI, which has previously been shown to be translocated in the phloem, as well as nine other transcripts not reported to be mobile. Dodders are parasitic plants that obtain resources by drawing from the phloem of a host plant and have joint plasmodesmata with host cortical cells. Although viruses are known to move between dodder and its hosts, translocation of endogenous plant mRNA has not been reported. These results point to a potentially new level of interspecies communication, and raise questions about the ability of parasites to recognize, use, and respond to transcripts acquired from their hosts.
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