Early molecular responses of tomato to combined moderate water stress and tomato red spider mite tetranychus evansi attack

Autor: Miguel González-Guzmán, Marcos Martin-Sánchez, Vicent Arbona, Alberto Echavarri-Muñoz, Félix Ortego, Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas, Miguel G. Ximénez-Embún
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Universidad Jaime I, Generalitat Valenciana
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Plants
Volume 9
Issue 9
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Plants, Vol 9, Iss 1131, p 1131 (2020)
Repositori Universitat Jaume I
Universitat Jaume I
Popis: Interaction between plants and their environment is changing as a consequence of the climate change and global warming, increasing the performance and dispersal of some pest species which become invasive species. Tetranychus evansi also known as the tomato red spider mite, is an invasive species which has been reported to increase its performance when feeding in the tomato cultivar Moneymaker (MM) under water deficit conditions. In order to clarify the underlying molecular events involved, we examined early plant molecular changes occurring on MM during T. evansi infestation alone or in combination with moderate drought stress. Hormonal profiling of MM plants showed an increase in abscisic acid (ABA) levels in drought-stressed plants while salicylic acid (SA) levels were higher in drought-stressed plants infested with T. evansi, indicating that SA is involved in the regulation of plant responses to this stress combination. Changes in the expression of ABA-dependent DREB2, NCED1, and RAB18 genes confirmed the presence of drought-dependent molecular responses in tomato plants and indicated that these responses could be modulated by the tomato red spider mite. Tomato metabolic profiling identified 42 differentially altered compounds produced by T. evansi attack, moderate drought stress, and/or their combination, reinforcing the idea of putative manipulation of tomato plant responses by tomato red spider mite. Altogether, these results indicate that the tomato red spider mite acts modulating plant responses to moderate drought stress by interfering with the ABA and SA hormonal responses, providing new insights into the early events occurring on plant biotic and abiotic stress interaction.
This work was supported by a Young Investigator project (AGL2015-73235-JIN) and a Ramon y Cajal contract (RYC-2016-19325) from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), and Universitat Jaume grant (UJI-B2019-24) to MG-G; by a Grant from INIA (GENOMITE, Proposal No. 618105 FACCE Era Net Plus-Food security, Agriculture, Climate Change) to FO; by MINECO, FEDER, Generalitat Valenciana and Universitat Jaume I through grants nos. AGL201676574-R, IDIFEDER 2018-10 and UJI-B2016- 23/UJI-B2016-24 to AG-C and VA. We are grateful to Maria Navajas for kindly providing the T. evansi population used in this study. The authors greatly acknowledge the central facilities (Servei Central d’Instrumentació Científica, SCIC) of the Universitat Jaume I where the phytohormone and metabolic profiling measurements were carried out.
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