Parasitic Plants: An Overview of Mechanisms by Which Plants Perceive and Respond to Parasites.

Autor: Jhu MY; Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, California, USA; email: nrsinha@ucdavis.edu.; Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom., Sinha NR; Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, California, USA; email: nrsinha@ucdavis.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Annual review of plant biology [Annu Rev Plant Biol] 2022 May 20; Vol. 73, pp. 433-455. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 01.
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-102820-100635
Abstrakt: In contrast to most autotrophic plants, which produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide using photosynthesis, parasitic plants obtain water and nutrients by parasitizing host plants. Many important crop plants are infested by these heterotrophic plants, leading to severe agricultural loss and reduced food security. Understanding how host plants perceive and resist parasitic plants provides insight into underlying defense mechanisms and the potential for agricultural applications. In this review, we offer a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of host perception of parasitic plants and the pre-attachment and post-attachment defense responses mounted by the host. Since most current research overlooks the role of organ specificity in resistance responses, we also summarize the current understanding and cases of cross-organ parasitism, which indicates nonconventional haustorial connections on other host organs, for example, when stem parasitic plants form haustoria on their host roots. Understanding how different tissue types respond to parasitic plants could provide the potential for developing a universal resistance mechanism in crops against both root and stem parasitic plants.
Databáze: MEDLINE