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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Pathogen-induced biosynthetic pathways encode defense-related molecules in bread wheat.

Guy Polturak, Martin Dippe, Michael J Stephenson, Rajesh Chandra Misra, Charlotte Owen, Ricardo H Ramirez-Gonzalez, John F Haidoulis, Henk-Jan Schoonbeek, Laetitia Chartrain, Philippa Borrill and 5 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 25 papers.

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Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Guy PolturakDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-6317-7266
Martin DippeDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Michael J StephensonDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Rajesh Chandra MisraDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-9594-3789
Charlotte OwenDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Ricardo H Ramirez-GonzalezDepartment of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5745-7085
John F HaidoulisDepartment of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7895-8978
Henk-Jan SchoonbeekDepartment of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-1087-2553
Laetitia ChartrainDepartment of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Philippa BorrillDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7623-8256
David R NelsonDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163.
James K M BrownDepartment of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8719-2268
Paul NicholsonDepartment of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
Cristobal UauyDepartment of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9814-1770
Anne OsbournDepartment of Biochemistry and Metabolism, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.
John Innes Centre · GBUniversity of North Texas · US

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H004580/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L014130/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/P012523/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/00000606Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/J/000PR9790
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wheat is a widely grown food crop that suffers major yield losses due to attack by pests and pathogens. A better understanding of biotic stress responses in wheat is thus of major importance. The recently assembled bread wheat genome coupled with extensive transcriptomic resources provides unprecedented new opportunities to investigate responses to pathogen challenge. Here, we analyze gene coexpression networks to identify modules showing consistent induction in response to pathogen exposure. Within the top pathogen-induced modules, we identify multiple clusters of physically adjacent genes that correspond to six pathogen-induced biosynthetic pathways that share a common regulatory network. Functional analysis reveals that these pathways, all of which are encoded by biosynthetic gene clusters, produce various different classes of compounds—namely, flavonoids, diterpenes, and triterpenes, including the defense-related compound ellarinacin. Through comparative genomics, we also identify associations with the known rice phytoalexins momilactones, as well as with a defense-related gene cluster in the grass model plant Brachypodium distachyon. Our results significantly advance the understanding of chemical defenses in wheat and open up avenues for enhancing disease resistance in this agriculturally important crop. They also exemplify the power of transcriptional networks to discover the biosynthesis of chemical defenses in plants with large, complex genomes.

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Biosynthetic PathwaysHost-Pathogen InteractionsPlant DiseasesTriticumBreadDisease ResistanceMultigene Familybiosynthetic gene clustersnatural productsphytoalexinsterpeneswheat

Identifiers

PMID35412884
PMCPMC9169793
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