Plant defensin antibacterial mode of action against Pseudomonas species

Sathoff, Andrew E.; Lewenza, Shawn; Samac, Deborah A.

doi:10.21203/rs.2.20753/v1

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“…Leucine-rich repeat domain containing proteins (all regions investigated) and lectin domain-containing proteins were identified (q1.1-2, q3.1, q5.1-2 and q6.1), which have roles as immune receptors (Lannoo & Van Damme, 2014). Other notable candidates include a defensin-like protein which have antimicrobial activity (Sathoff et al , 2020; q5.2), a putative TRICHOME-BIREFRINGENCE-LIKE gene involved in the deposition of callose and an epidermal patterning factor-like gene, which influence the development of stomata in the upper epidermis (q6.2).…”

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Good and bad lettuce leaf microbes? Unravelling the genetic architecture of the microbiome to inform plant breeding for enhanced food safety and reduced food waste

Damerum

Arnold

Bernard

et al. 2021

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Lettuce is a high value food crop, consumed raw around the world. Engineering of the leaf microbiome could provide significant benefits for enhanced crop yield and stress resistance and help to reduce food waste caused by microbial spoilage. Lettuce leaves also act as a vector for human pathogens, implicated in several high-profile food-borne disease outbreaks. Since host genotype helps determine microbiome composition, we hypothesize that leaf surface traits can be defined that associate with "good" bacterial microbiomes providing benefits to the crop and that "bad" microbiomes, where spoilage organisms and human pathogens are abundant, can also be associated to underlying leaf genetics, providing key targets for future crop breeding. Using a Recombinant Inbred Line (RIL) population, we show that cultivated and wild parental genotypes differ with reduced bacterial diversity, larger leaves and fewer, larger stomata, smaller epidermal cells and more hydrophilic leaf surfaces found in the cultivated compared to wild lettuce. Functional analysis of the associated microbiome revealed increased abundance of genes associated with disease virulence for the cultivated lettuce genotype, suggesting domestication has had broad impacts on leaf and associated bacterial microbiome traits. We defined the core lettuce bacterial microbiome from 171 RILs, comprised of 45 taxa in the phyla Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Firmicutes, Chloroflexi and Deinococcus-Thermus. Leaf surface characteristics important in influencing bacterial diversity and abundance were identified as stomatal size (length and width), epidermal cell area and number and leaf surface hydrophobicity of the abaxial leaf surface. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) for leaf surface traits, frequently mapped alongside those for the extended phenotype of bacterial taxa abundance, including for human pathogens Campylobacter spp., Escherichia-Shigella spp., Clostridium spp. (LG 4, 5 and 6) and spoilage bacteria, Pseudomonas spp. (LG 1, 3, 4, 6 and 9). Candidate genes underlying these QTL were enriched in GO terms for cell wall assembly and modification, defence response, hormone-mediated signalling and biosynthesis and anatomical structure development. This work provides the first insight into the genetic architecture of host surface traits in a leafy crop alongside the mapped genetic architecture of bacterial communities and has identified areas of the lettuce genome as important targets for future microbiome engineering.

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