Maize plants prime anti-herbivore responses by the memorizing and recalling of airborne information in their genome

Koichi Sugimoto; Gen Ichiro Arimura

doi:10.4161/psb.25796

Maize plants prime anti-herbivore responses by the memorizing and recalling of airborne information in their genome

Koichi Sugimoto, Gen Ichiro Arimura

Department of Biological Science and Technology

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Intact maize plants prime for defensive action against herbivory in response to herbivore-induced plant volatiles (hiPVs) emitted from caterpillar-infested conspecifc plants. the recent research showed that the primed defense in receiver plants that had been exposed to hiPVs was maintained for at least 5 d after exposure. herbivory triggered the receiver plants to enhance the expression of a defense gene for trypsin inhibitor (ti). at the upstream sequence of a TI gene, non-methylated cytosine residues were observed in the genome of hiPV-exposed plants more frequently than in that of healthy plant volatile-exposed plants. these fndings provide an innovative mechanism for the memory of hiPV-mediated habituation for plant defense. this mechanism and further innovations for priming of defenses via plant communications will contribute to the development of plant volatile-based pest management methods in agriculture and horticulture.

Original language	English
Journal	Plant Signaling and Behavior
Volume	8
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4161/psb.25796
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013

Keywords

DNA methylation
Defense response
Herbivore-induced plant volatile
Memory
Plant-herbivore interaction
Plant-plant signaling
Primed defense

Access to Document

10.4161/psb.25796

Cite this

@article{f87e43b78c6d43e687360940c0e870f6,

title = "Maize plants prime anti-herbivore responses by the memorizing and recalling of airborne information in their genome",

abstract = "Intact maize plants prime for defensive action against herbivory in response to herbivore-induced plant volatiles (hiPVs) emitted from caterpillar-infested conspecifc plants. the recent research showed that the primed defense in receiver plants that had been exposed to hiPVs was maintained for at least 5 d after exposure. herbivory triggered the receiver plants to enhance the expression of a defense gene for trypsin inhibitor (ti). at the upstream sequence of a TI gene, non-methylated cytosine residues were observed in the genome of hiPV-exposed plants more frequently than in that of healthy plant volatile-exposed plants. these fndings provide an innovative mechanism for the memory of hiPV-mediated habituation for plant defense. this mechanism and further innovations for priming of defenses via plant communications will contribute to the development of plant volatile-based pest management methods in agriculture and horticulture.",

keywords = "DNA methylation, Defense response, Herbivore-induced plant volatile, Memory, Plant-herbivore interaction, Plant-plant signaling, Primed defense",

author = "Koichi Sugimoto and Arimura, {Gen Ichiro}",

note = "Funding Information: This work was financially supported in part by the MEXT Grants for Excellent Graduate Schools program of Kyoto University; a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to GA (No. 24770019); and a Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from JSPS to KS (24-841).",

year = "2013",

month = oct,

doi = "10.4161/psb.25796",

language = "English",

volume = "8",

journal = "Plant Signaling and Behavior",

issn = "1559-2316",

publisher = "Landes Bioscience",

number = "10",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Maize plants prime anti-herbivore responses by the memorizing and recalling of airborne information in their genome

AU - Sugimoto, Koichi

AU - Arimura, Gen Ichiro

N1 - Funding Information: This work was financially supported in part by the MEXT Grants for Excellent Graduate Schools program of Kyoto University; a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to GA (No. 24770019); and a Research Fellowship for Young Scientists from JSPS to KS (24-841).

PY - 2013/10

Y1 - 2013/10

N2 - Intact maize plants prime for defensive action against herbivory in response to herbivore-induced plant volatiles (hiPVs) emitted from caterpillar-infested conspecifc plants. the recent research showed that the primed defense in receiver plants that had been exposed to hiPVs was maintained for at least 5 d after exposure. herbivory triggered the receiver plants to enhance the expression of a defense gene for trypsin inhibitor (ti). at the upstream sequence of a TI gene, non-methylated cytosine residues were observed in the genome of hiPV-exposed plants more frequently than in that of healthy plant volatile-exposed plants. these fndings provide an innovative mechanism for the memory of hiPV-mediated habituation for plant defense. this mechanism and further innovations for priming of defenses via plant communications will contribute to the development of plant volatile-based pest management methods in agriculture and horticulture.

AB - Intact maize plants prime for defensive action against herbivory in response to herbivore-induced plant volatiles (hiPVs) emitted from caterpillar-infested conspecifc plants. the recent research showed that the primed defense in receiver plants that had been exposed to hiPVs was maintained for at least 5 d after exposure. herbivory triggered the receiver plants to enhance the expression of a defense gene for trypsin inhibitor (ti). at the upstream sequence of a TI gene, non-methylated cytosine residues were observed in the genome of hiPV-exposed plants more frequently than in that of healthy plant volatile-exposed plants. these fndings provide an innovative mechanism for the memory of hiPV-mediated habituation for plant defense. this mechanism and further innovations for priming of defenses via plant communications will contribute to the development of plant volatile-based pest management methods in agriculture and horticulture.

KW - DNA methylation

KW - Defense response

KW - Herbivore-induced plant volatile

KW - Memory

KW - Plant-herbivore interaction

KW - Plant-plant signaling

KW - Primed defense

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885196735&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4161/psb.25796

DO - 10.4161/psb.25796

M3 - Article

C2 - 23887489

AN - SCOPUS:84885196735

SN - 1559-2316

VL - 8

JO - Plant Signaling and Behavior

JF - Plant Signaling and Behavior

IS - 10

ER -

Maize plants prime anti-herbivore responses by the memorizing and recalling of airborne information in their genome

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this