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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2017

Filamentous sieve element proteins are able to limit phloem mass flow, but not phytoplasma spread.

Laura Pagliari, Sara Buoso, Simonetta Santi, Alexandra C U Furch, Marta Martini, Francesca Degola, Alberto Loschi, Aart J E van Bel, Rita Musetti

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Laura PagliariDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze, 206, I-33100 Udine, Italy.
Sara BuosoDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze, 206, I-33100 Udine, Italy.
Simonetta SantiDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze, 206, I-33100 Udine, Italy.
Alexandra C U FurchInstitute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Dornburgerstrasse, 159 D-07743 Jena, Germany.
Marta MartiniDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze, 206, I-33100 Udine, Italy.
Francesca DegolaDepartment of Life Sciences, University of Parma, via Usberti, 11/A, I-43100 Parma, Italy.
Alberto LoschiDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze, 206, I-33100 Udine, Italy.
Aart J E van BelDepartment of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology, Justus Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany.
Rita MusettiDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, via delle Scienze, 206, I-33100 Udine, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Fabaceae, dispersion of forisomes-highly ordered aggregates of sieve element proteins-in response to phytoplasma infection was proposed to limit phloem mass flow and, hence, prevent pathogen spread. In this study, the involvement of filamentous sieve element proteins in the containment of phytoplasmas was investigated in non-Fabaceae plants. Healthy and infected Arabidopsis plants lacking one or two genes related to sieve element filament formation-AtSEOR1 (At3g01680), AtSEOR2 (At3g01670), and AtPP2-A1 (At4g19840)-were analysed. TEM images revealed that phytoplasma infection induces phloem protein filament formation in both the wild-type and mutant lines. This result suggests that, in contrast to previous hypotheses, sieve element filaments can be produced independently of AtSEOR1 and AtSEOR2 genes. Filament presence was accompanied by a compensatory overexpression of sieve element protein genes in infected mutant lines in comparison with wild-type lines. No correlation was found between phloem mass flow limitation and phytoplasma titre, which suggests that sieve element proteins are involved in defence mechanisms other than mechanical limitation of the pathogen.

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ArabidopsisArabidopsis ProteinsPhloemPhytoplasmaPlant DiseasesArabidopsis ProteinsArabidopsis thalianacombined microscopyphloem mass flowphytoplasmassieve element occlusionsieve element proteins

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PMID28859375
PMCPMC5853782

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