High specificity in plant leaf metabolic responses to arbuscular mycorrhiza.
| Autor: | Schweiger R; Department of Chemical Ecology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany., Baier MC; Department of Chemical Ecology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany., Persicke M; Center for Biotechnology, Universitätsstraße 27, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany., Müller C; Department of Chemical Ecology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2014 May 22; Vol. 5, pp. 3886. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 May 22. |
| DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms4886 |
| Abstrakt: | The chemical composition of plants (phytometabolome) is dynamic and modified by environmental factors. Understanding its modulation allows to improve crop quality and decode mechanisms underlying plant-pest interactions. Many studies that investigate metabolic responses to the environment focus on single model species and/or few target metabolites. However, comparative studies using environmental metabolomics are needed to evaluate commonalities of chemical responses to certain challenges. We assessed the specificity of foliar metabolic responses of five plant species to the widespread, ancient symbiosis with a generalist arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. Here we show that plant species share a large 'core metabolome' but nevertheless the phytometabolomes are modulated highly species/taxon-specifically. Such a low conservation of responses across species highlights the importance to consider plant metabolic prerequisites and the long time of specific plant-fungus coevolution. Thus, the transferability of findings regarding phytometabolome modulation by an identical AM symbiont is severely limited even between closely related species. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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