Orchestration of plant defense systems: genes to populations

TY - JOUR

T1 - Orchestration of plant defense systems

T2 - genes to populations

AU - Kliebenstein, Daniel James

PY - 2014/4

Y1 - 2014/4

N2 - Research over the past decades has made immense progress in identifying some genes and mechanisms underlying plant defense against biotic organisms. The recent movement towards systems biology approaches has increased mechanistic knowledge, revealing a need for understanding how all the genes and mechanisms integrate to create a response to any given biotic interaction. This begins with evidence that diverse molecular patterns converge, suggesting that the plant perceives signals not the interacting species. These signals then coordinate across regulatory networks via molecular interactions and cause non-cell autonomous responses in neighboring and systemic cells. Finally, the identification of transporters is showing that plant defenses are harmonized across tissues and even show the potential for coordination across individuals within a population.

AB - Research over the past decades has made immense progress in identifying some genes and mechanisms underlying plant defense against biotic organisms. The recent movement towards systems biology approaches has increased mechanistic knowledge, revealing a need for understanding how all the genes and mechanisms integrate to create a response to any given biotic interaction. This begins with evidence that diverse molecular patterns converge, suggesting that the plant perceives signals not the interacting species. These signals then coordinate across regulatory networks via molecular interactions and cause non-cell autonomous responses in neighboring and systemic cells. Finally, the identification of transporters is showing that plant defenses are harmonized across tissues and even show the potential for coordination across individuals within a population.

U2 - 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.01.003

DO - 10.1016/j.tplants.2014.01.003

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 24486317

SN - 1360-1385

VL - 19

SP - 250

EP - 255

JO - Trends in Plant Science

JF - Trends in Plant Science

IS - 4

ER -