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ArticleJournal of experimental botany2025

The CAPE1 peptide confers resistance against bacterial wilt in tomato.

Weiqi Zhang, Marc Planas-Marquès, Moyan Liang, Qingshan Zhang, Annemarie Vermeulen, Farnusch Kaschani, Markus Kaiser, Frank L W Takken, Nuria S Coll, Marc Valls

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Article in Journal of experimental botany, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Genome-Wide Characterization of CAPE-ProducingPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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10 authors.

Weiqi ZhangCentre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Marc Planas-MarquèsCentre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Moyan LiangCentre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Qingshan ZhangCentre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Annemarie VermeulenMolecular Plant Pathology, Faculty of Science, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Farnusch KaschaniAnalytics Core Facility Essen (ACE), Chemical Biology, Faculty of Biology, Universität Duisburg-Essen, ZMB, 45117 Essen, Germany.
Markus KaiserChemical Biology, Faculty of Biology, Universität Duisburg-Essen, ZMB, 45117 Essen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6540-8520
Frank L W TakkenMolecular Plant Pathology, Faculty of Science, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2655-3108
Nuria S CollCentre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8889-0399
Marc VallsCentre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2312-0091

Funding

CERCA Program of the Catalan government CSC201906990041CERCA Program of the Catalan government CSC202306990037CERCA Program of the Catalan government CSC202408390094'ERDF A way of making Europe' MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033'ERDF A way of making Europe' TED2021-131457B-I00Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033Severo Ochoa Program for Centres of Excellence in R&D CEX2019-000902-S
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is one of the most destructive bacterial diseases for which no effective treatment exists. There is an urgent need to understand the basis of resistance against this pathogen in order to engineer efficient strategies in the field. We previously demonstrated that resistant tomato plants limit bacterial movement in the apoplast and the xylem. As a first step to dissect the underlying mechanisms, we analysed the apoplast proteome upon challenge with R. solanacearum in the susceptible tomato cultivar Marmande and the resistant cultivar Hawaii 7996. Here, we described the xylem proteome in these same cultivars and compared it with the apoplastic proteome, revealing variety-dependent and infection-dependent changes. This proteomic analysis led to the identification of pathogenesis-related 1 (PR1) proteins as highly induced upon infection. Since PR1b was the most abundant PR1 protein in both the apoplast and the xylem, we concentrated on this family member to study the role of PR1s in the interaction between tomato and R. solanacearum. Surprisingly, lack of PR1b resulted in enhanced resistance to R. solanacearum in tomato, which could be due to an up-regulation of homologous genes in a compensatory effect as has been reported before. PR1 processing by an unknown protease in tomato results in the generation of the CAPE peptide. Treatment of tomato plants with the CAPE1 peptide resulted in restriction of R. solanacearum growth, via defence gene reprogramming. Future work in the lab will help determine which tomato secreted proteases cleave PR1s to generate CAPEs.

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Disease ResistancePlant DiseasesPlant ProteinsRalstonia solanacearumSolanum lycopersicumProteomeXylemPlant ProteinsProteomeBacterial wiltPR1 proteinsRalstonia solanacearumSolanum lycopersicumtomato disease resistancexylem proteome

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PMCPMC12485366

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