ArticleOecologia2021
Leaf isoprene emission as a trait that mediates the growth-defense tradeoff in the face of climate stress.
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- Isoprene-Emitting Transgenic Tobacco Shapes Root Microbiome and Enhances Growth of Co-Cultivated Non-Emitting Plants.Plant, cell & environment · 2026Article
- Specialized Metabolic Reprogramming in Plant Immunity: Biosynthetic Networks, Spatiotemporal Regulation, and Quantitative Defense.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Impact of emerging compound droughts on forests: A water supply and demand perspective.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Review
- Divergence in isoprenoid emissions among subtropical broadleaf trees: linking photosynthesis, leaf economics, and volatile defense for forest management.Forestry research · 2026Article
- Volatile-Mediated Plant Defense Networks: Field Evidence for Isoprene as a Short-Distance Immune Signal.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Volatile organic compounds inHorticulture research · 2025Article
- Leaf spectroscopy as a tool for predicting the presence of isoprene emissions and terpene storage in central Amazon forest trees.Plant methods · 2025Article
- Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: 'growth versus defence' or 'growth versus risk mitigation'?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Leaf isoprene and monoterpene emissions vary with fast-slow carbon economics strategies in central Amazon woody species.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Drought Tolerance in Plants: Physiological and Molecular Responses.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- High temperature sensitivity of Arctic isoprene emissions explained by sedges.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The effect of constitutive root isoprene emission on root phenotype and physiology under control and salt stress conditions.Plant direct · 2024Article
- Optimal seasonal schedule for the production of isoprene, a highly volatile biogenic VOC.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Relationship between Cumulative Temperature and Light Intensity and G93 Parameters of Isoprene Emission for the Tropical TreePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Interactions between leaf phenological type and functional traits drive variation in isoprene emissions in central Amazon forest trees.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- A Novel Isoprene Synthase from the Monocot TreeInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Exogenous monoterpenes mitigate H2O2-induced lipid damage but do not attenuate photosynthetic decline during water deficit in tomato.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Article
- Characterization of promoter elements of isoprene-responsive genes and the ability of isoprene to bind START domain transcription factors.Plant direct · 2023Article
- Isoprene-Emitting Tobacco Plants Are Less Affected by Moderate Water Deficit under Future Climate Change Scenario and Show Adjustments of Stress-Related Proteins in Actual Climate.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Age effects of Moso bamboo on leaf isoprene emission characteristics.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Plant isoprene emissions are known to contribute to abiotic stress tolerance, especially during episodes of high temperature and drought, and during cellular oxidative stress. Recent studies have shown that genetic transformations to add or remove isoprene emissions cause a cascade of cellular modifications that include known signaling pathways, and interact to remodel adaptive growth-defense tradeoffs. The most compelling evidence for isoprene signaling is found in the shikimate and phenylpropanoid pathways, which produce salicylic acid, alkaloids, tannins, anthocyanins, flavonols and other flavonoids; all of which have roles in stress tolerance and plant defense. Isoprene also influences key gene expression patterns in the terpenoid biosynthetic pathways, and the jasmonic acid, gibberellic acid and cytokinin signaling networks that have important roles in controlling inducible defense responses and influencing plant growth and development, particularly following defoliation. In this synthesis paper, using past studies of transgenic poplar, tobacco and Arabidopsis, we present the evidence for isoprene acting as a metabolite that coordinates aspects of cellular signaling, resulting in enhanced chemical defense during periods of climate stress, while minimizing costs to growth. This perspective represents a major shift in our thinking away from direct effects of isoprene, for example, by changing membrane properties or quenching ROS, to indirect effects, through changes in gene expression and protein abundances. Recognition of isoprene's role in the growth-defense tradeoff provides new perspectives on evolution of the trait, its contribution to plant adaptation and resilience, and the ecological niches in which it is most effective.
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