ArticlePlant physiology2012
Herbivory in the previous generation primes plants for enhanced insect resistance.
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- Defence priming in Arabidopsis - a Meta-Analysis.Scientific reports · 2019Pooled it
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- Developmentally regulated generation of a systemic signal for long-lasting defence priming in tomato.The New phytologist · 2025Article
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- Folate-mediated transgenerational inheritance of sperm DNA methylation patterns correlate with spinal axon regeneration.Epigenetics · 2024Article
- Butterfly eggs prime anti-herbivore defense in an annual but not perennial Arabidopsis species.Planta · 2024Article
- Redox Regulation by Priming Agents Toward a Sustainable Agriculture.Plant & cell physiology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Inducible defenses, which provide enhanced resistance after initial attack, are nearly universal in plants. This defense signaling cascade is mediated by the synthesis, movement, and perception of jasmonic acid and related plant metabolites. To characterize the long-term persistence of plant immunity, we challenged Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) with caterpillar herbivory, application of methyl jasmonate, or mechanical damage during vegetative growth and assessed plant resistance in subsequent generations. Here, we show that induced resistance was associated with transgenerational priming of jasmonic acid-dependent defense responses in both species, caused caterpillars to grow up to 50% smaller than on control plants, and persisted for two generations in Arabidopsis. Arabidopsis mutants that are deficient in jasmonate perception (coronatine insensitive1) or in the biogenesis of small interfering RNA (dicer-like2 dicer-like3 dicer-like4 and nuclear RNA polymerase d2a nuclear RNA polymerase d2b) do not exhibit inherited resistance. The observation of inherited resistance in both the Brassicaceae and Solanaceae suggests that this trait may be more widely distributed in plants. Epigenetic resistance to herbivory thus represents a phenotypically plastic mechanism for enhanced defense across generations.
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