ArticleFrontiers in plant science2015
Phytoplasma infection in tomato is associated with re-organization of plasma membrane, ER stacks, and actin filaments in sieve elements.
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- The Endoplasmic Reticulum Is a Key Battleground between Phytoplasma Aggression and Host Plant Defense.Cells · 2023Article
- Detection, Identification and Molecular Characterization of the 16SrII-V Subgroup Phytoplasma Strain Associated withPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The sieve-element endoplasmic reticulum: A focal point of phytoplasma-host plant interaction?Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Effect of Phytoplasma Associated with Sesame Phyllody on Ultrastructural Modification, Physio-Biochemical Traits, Productivity and Oil Quality.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Spatiotemporal and Quantitative Monitoring of the Fate of "Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Involvement of SUT1 and SUT2 Sugar Transporters in the Impairment of Sugar Transport and Changes in Phloem Exudate Contents in Phytoplasma-Infected Plants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Competitive Exclusion of Flavescence dorée Phytoplasma Strains inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Dynamics ofPlant physiology · 2020Article
- Changes in the microsomal proteome of tomato fruit during ripening.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani' interferes with the distribution and uptake of iron in tomato.BMC genomics · 2019Article
- Global Status of Phytoplasma Diseases in Vegetable Crops.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Review
- What Slows Down Phytoplasma Proliferation? Speculations on the Involvement of AtSEOR2 Protein in Plant Defence Signalling.Plant signaling & behavior · 2018Article
- The enemy within: phloem-limited pathogens.Molecular plant pathology · 2018Review
- Filamentous sieve element proteins are able to limit phloem mass flow, but not phytoplasma spread.Journal of experimental botany · 2017Article
- OHMS**: Phytoplasmas dictate changes in sieve-element ultrastructure to accommodate their requirements for nutrition, multiplication and translocation.Plant signaling & behavior · 2016Article
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Abstract
Phytoplasmas, biotrophic wall-less prokaryotes, only reside in sieve elements of their host plants. The essentials of the intimate interaction between phytoplasmas and their hosts are poorly understood, which calls for research on potential ultrastructural modifications. We investigated modifications of the sieve-element ultrastructure induced in tomato plants by 'Candidatus Phytoplasma solani,' the pathogen associated with the stolbur disease. Phytoplasma infection induces a drastic re-organization of sieve-element substructures including changes in plasma membrane surface and distortion of the sieve-element reticulum. Observations of healthy and stolbur-diseased plants provided evidence for the emergence of structural links between sieve-element plasma membrane and phytoplasmas. One-sided actin aggregates on the phytoplasma surface also inferred a connection between phytoplasma and sieve-element cytoskeleton. Actin filaments displaced from the sieve-element mictoplasm to the surface of the phytoplasmas in infected sieve elements. Western blot analysis revealed a decrease of actin and an increase of ER-resident chaperone luminal binding protein (BiP) in midribs of phytoplasma-infected plants. Collectively, the studies provided novel insights into ultrastructural responses of host sieve elements to phloem-restricted prokaryotes.
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