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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2012

The plant growth promoting substance, lumichrome, mimics starch, and ethylene-associated symbiotic responses in lotus and tomato roots.

Liezel M Gouws, Eileen Botes, Anna J Wiese, Sandra Trenkamp, Ivone Torres-Jerez, Yuhong Tang, Paul N Hills, Björn Usadel, James R Lloyd, Alisdair R Fernie and 2 more

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Liezel M GouwsInstitute of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Eileen Botes
Anna J Wiese
Sandra Trenkamp
Ivone Torres-Jerez
Yuhong Tang
Paul N Hills
Björn Usadel
James R Lloyd
Alisdair R Fernie
Jens Kossmann
Margaretha J van der Merwe
Stellenbosch University · ZAMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology · DENoble Research Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Symbiosis involves responses that maintain the plant host and symbiotic partner's genetic program; yet these cues are far from elucidated. Here we describe the effects of lumichrome, a flavin identified from Rhizobium spp., applied to lotus (Lotus japonicus) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Combined transcriptional and metabolite analyses suggest that both species shared common pathways that were altered in response to this application under replete, sterile conditions. These included genes involved in symbiosis, as well as transcriptional and metabolic responses related to enhanced starch accumulation and altered ethylene metabolism. Lumichrome priming also resulted in altered colonization with either Mesorhizobium loti (for lotus) or Glomus intraradices/G. mossea (for tomato). It enhanced nodule number but not nodule formation in lotus; while leading to enhanced hyphae initiation and delayed arbuscule maturation in tomato.

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ethyleneflavinlumichromemycorrhizanodulationstarchsymbiosis

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PMID22701462
PMCPMC3371600
OpenAlexW2156140334

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