Plant&amp;#8211;plant communication mediated by airborne signals: ecological and plant physiological perspectives

Yoneya, Kinuyo; Takabayashi, Junji

doi:10.5511/plantbiotechnology.14.0827a

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“…Plant volatiles may provide information regarding plant condition and can influence the behaviour of organisms other than herbivores (Sugimoto, Matsui, & Takabayash, ). Studies demonstrated that plants have the ability to respond to volatile infochemicals emitted from neighbouring plants and thus, plants also serve as infochemical receivers (Yoneya & Takabayashi, ). Volatiles taken up by plants undergo glycosylation and glutathionylation, resulting in nonvolatile compounds that might have ecological functions.…”

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Glucosylation of (Z)‐3‐hexenol informs intraspecies interactions in plants: A case study in Camellia sinensis

Jing

Zhang

Gao

et al. 2018

Plant Cell & Environment

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Plants emit a variety of volatiles in response to herbivore attack, and (Z)‐3‐hexenol and its glycosides have been shown to function as defence compounds. Although the ability to incorporate and convert (Z)‐3‐hexenol to glycosides is widely conserved in plants, the enzymes responsible for the glycosylation of (Z)‐3‐hexenol remained unknown until today. In this study, uridine‐diphosphate‐dependent glycosyltransferase (UGT) candidate genes were selected by correlation analysis and their response to airborne (Z)‐3‐hexenol, which has been shown to be taken up by the tea plant. The allelic proteins UGT85A53‐1 and UGT85A53‐2 showed the highest activity towards (Z)‐3‐hexenol and are distinct from UGT85A53‐3, which displayed a similar catalytic efficiency for (Z)‐3‐hexenol and nerol. A single amino acid exchange E59D enhanced the activity towards (Z)‐3‐hexenol, whereas a L445M mutation reduced the catalytic activity towards all substrates tested. Transient overexpression of CsUGT85A53‐1 in tobacco significantly increased the level of (Z)‐3‐hexenyl glucoside. The functional characterization of CsUGT85A53 as a (Z)‐3‐hexenol UGT not only provides the foundation for the biotechnological production of (Z)‐3‐hexenyl glucoside but also delivers insights for the development of novel insect pest control strategies in tea plant and might be generally applicable to other plants.

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Glucosylation of (Z)‐3‐hexenol informs intraspecies interactions in plants: A case study in Camellia sinensis

Jing

Zhang

Gao

et al. 2018

Plant Cell & Environment

121

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“…To date, only a few volatiles and their corresponding UGTs have been functionally characterized due to the presence of hundreds of UGT‐encoding genes in most plant species (Yonekura‐Sakakibara & Hanada ; Caputi et al ; Song et al ) and substrate promiscuity of UGT enzymes (Jones & Vogt, ). In contrast to the intensively studied UGTs involved in the glucosylation of monoterpenols (Bönisch et al , ,b; Yoneya & Takabayashi, ; Ohgami et al , ) and nonvolatile diterpenoids (C20) (Richman et al , ; Nagatoshi et al , ; Sun et al , ), the UGTs involved in the glucosylation of sesquiterpenes have been scarcely documented, possibly due to the relative rarity of sesquiterpene glycosides in the plant kingdom.…”

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Sesquiterpene glucosylation mediated by glucosyltransferase UGT91Q2 is involved in the modulation of cold stress tolerance in tea plants

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Summary Plants produce and emit terpenes, including sesquiterpenes, during growth and development, which serve different functions in plants. The sesquiterpene nerolidol has health‐promoting properties and adds a floral scent to plants. However, the glycosylation mechanism of nerolidol and its biological roles in plants remained unknown. Sesquiterpene UDP‐glucosyltransferases were selected by using metabolites‐genes correlation analysis, and its roles in response to cold stress were studied. We discovered the first plant UGT (UGT91Q2) in tea plant, whose expression is strongly induced by cold stress and which specifically catalyzes the glucosylation of nerolidol. The accumulation of nerolidol glucoside was consistent with the expression level of UGT91Q2 in response to cold stress, as well as in different tea cultivars. The reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenging capacity of nerolidol glucoside was significantly higher than that of free nerolidol. Down‐regulation of UGT91Q2 resulted in reduced accumulation of nerolidol glucoside, ROS scavenging capacity and tea plant cold tolerance. Tea plants absorbed airborne nerolidol and converted it to its glucoside, subsequently enhancing tea plant cold stress tolerance. Nerolidol plays a role in response to cold stress as well as in triggering plant–plant communication in response to cold stress. Our findings reveal previously unidentified roles of volatiles in response to abiotic stress in plants.

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“…As examples of notable capabilities of the plants that can be considered like some kind of reasoning can be mentioned (Goh, Nam, & Park, ; Volkov, Carrell, Baldwin, & Markin, ): discriminating negative and positive experiences and learning from past experiences, communication capability, accurate computing their circumstances. Yoneya and Takabayashi () analyze the complex communication between plants from the same or different species. By communicating, plants can form a highly complex system as a whole.…”

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Survey on establishing the optimal number of factors in exploratory factor analysis applied to data mining

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Morar

2018

WIREs Data Min & Knowl

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In many types of researches and studies including those performed by the sciences of agriculture and plant sciences, large quantities of data are frequently obtained that must be analyzed using different data mining techniques. Sometimes data mining involves the application of different methods of statistical data analysis. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) is frequently used as a technique for data reduction and structure detection in data mining. In our survey, we study the EFA applied to data mining, focusing on the problem of establishing of the optimal number of factors to be retained. The number of factors to retain is the most important decision to take after the factor extraction in EFA. Many researchers discussed the criteria for choosing the optimal number of factors. Mistakes in factor extraction may consist in extracting too few or too many factors. An inappropriate number of factors may lead to erroneous conclusions. A comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art related to this subject was made. The main focus was on the most frequently applied factor selection methods, namely Kaiser Criterion, Cattell's Scree test, and Monte Carlo Parallel Analysis. We have highligthed the importance of the analysis in some research, based on the research specificity, of the total cumulative variance explained by the selected optimal number of extracted factors. It is necessary that the extracted factors explain at least a minimum threshold of cumulative variance. ExtrOptFact algorithm presents the steps that must be performed in EFA for the selection of the optimal number of factors. For validation purposes, a case study was presented, performed on data obtained in an experimental study that we made on Brassica napus plant. Applying the ExtrOptFact algorithm for Principal Component Analysis can be decided on the selection of three components that were called Qualitative, Generative, and Vegetative, which explained 92% of the total cumulative variance.

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Plant–plant communication mediated by airborne signals: ecological and plant physiological perspectives

Cited by 51 publications

References 55 publications

Glucosylation of (Z)‐3‐hexenol informs intraspecies interactions in plants: A case study in Camellia sinensis

Glucosylation of (Z)‐3‐hexenol informs intraspecies interactions in plants: A case study in Camellia sinensis

Sesquiterpene glucosylation mediated by glucosyltransferase UGT91Q2 is involved in the modulation of cold stress tolerance in tea plants

Survey on establishing the optimal number of factors in exploratory factor analysis applied to data mining

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