“…Contrary to what has been observed for MeJA, the role of JA-Ile as a negative regulator of stomatal defense is strongly supported in the literature. Evidence includes (1) COR, which is a molecular mimic of JA-Ile (Zhao et al, 2003;Staswick and Tiryaki, 2004), induces stomatal opening, and repress pathogen-associated molecular patterntriggered stomatal closure (Mino et al, 1987;Melotto et al, 2006;Zhang et al, 2008;Panchal et al, 2016b); (2) JA-Ile, but not jasmonic acid, induces stomatal opening with the same potency as COR in Ipomea tricolor (Okada et al, 2009); (3) the coronatine insensitive1 (coi1) mutant of Arabidopsis that lacks the functional receptor for both COR and JA-Ile (Sheard et al, 2010) has constitutively smaller stomatal aperture than the wild-type plant (Panchal et al, 2016a).…”