ArticlePlant physiology2024
Transcription factor WOX11 modulates tolerance to cyst nematodes via adventitious lateral root formation.
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- Environmental Risk Assessment and Confinement of Genetically Engineered Trees with an Emphasis on Vegetative Reproduction.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Newly found functions and regulatory networks of WOX family: what else does the WOX say?Planta · 2026Review
- Grasping Molecular Biology Mechanisms to Optimize Plant Resistance and Advance Microbiome Role Against Phytonematodes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Root-Specific Signal Modules Mediating Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Fruit Crops.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Transcriptome-wide identification of the WUSCHEL-related homeobox transcription factors and their expression patterns underlying drought and salt stress inFrontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Biochemical Defence of Plants against Parasitic Nematodes.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- WOX11-mediated plant resilience: nematodes cut and adventitious lateral roots surge.Plant physiology · 2024Article
- Functional studies of plant transcription factors and their relevance in the plant root-knot nematode interaction.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
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Abstract
The transcription factor WUSCHEL-RELATED HOMEOBOX 11 (WOX11) in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) initiates the formation of adventitious lateral roots upon mechanical injury in primary roots. Root-invading nematodes also induce de novo root organogenesis leading to excessive root branching, but it is not known if this symptom of disease involves mediation by WOX11 and if it benefits the plant. Here, we show with targeted transcriptional repression and reporter gene analyses in Arabidopsis that the beet cyst nematode Heterodera schachtii activates WOX11-mediated adventitious lateral rooting from primary roots close to infection sites. The activation of WOX11 in nematode-infected roots occurs downstream of jasmonic acid-dependent damage signaling via ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR109, linking adventitious lateral root formation to nematode damage to host tissues. By measuring different root system components, we found that WOX11-mediated formation of adventitious lateral roots compensates for nematode-induced inhibition of primary root growth. Our observations further demonstrate that WOX11-mediated rooting reduces the impact of nematode infections on aboveground plant development and growth. Altogether, we conclude that the transcriptional regulation by WOX11 modulates root system plasticity under biotic stress, which is one of the key mechanisms underlying the tolerance of Arabidopsis to cyst nematode infections.
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