Transcriptome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of Genes Encoding Defense-Related Peptides of in Response to Infection.

Peptides play an essential role in plant development and immunity. belonging to the Rosaceae family, is a medicinal plant which exhibits valuable pharmacological properties. extracts in vitro inhibit the growth of a variety of plant and human pathogens.

The γ-Core Motif Peptides of Plant AMPs as Novel Antimicrobials for Medicine and Agriculture.

The γ-core motif is a structural element shared by most host antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which is supposed to contribute to their antimicrobial properties. In this review, we summarized the available data on the γ-core peptides of plant AMPs. We describe γ-core peptides that have been shown to exhibit inhibitory activity against plant and human bacterial and fungal pathogens that make them attractive scaffolds for the development of novel anti-infective agents.

The γ-Core Motif Peptides of AMPs from Grasses Display Inhibitory Activity against Human and Plant Pathogens.

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) constitute an essential part of the plant immune system. They are regarded as alternatives to conventional antibiotics and pesticides. In this study, we have identified the γ-core motifs, which are associated with antimicrobial activity, in 18 AMPs from grasses and assayed their antimicrobial properties against nine pathogens, including yeasts affecting humans, as well as plant pathogenic bacteria and fungi.

Synthetic Oligopeptides Mimicking γ-Core Regions of Cysteine-Rich Peptides of Possess Antimicrobial Activity against Human and Plant Pathogens.

Plant cysteine-rich peptides (CRPs) represent a diverse group of molecules involved in different aspects of plant physiology. Antimicrobial peptides, which directly suppress the growth of pathogens, are regarded as promising templates for the development of next-generation pharmaceuticals and ecologically friendly plant disease control agents. Their oligopeptide fragments are even more promising because of their low production costs.

Molecular Insights into the Role of Cysteine-Rich Peptides in Induced Resistance to Infection in Tomato Based on Transcriptome Profiling.

Cysteine-rich peptides (CRPs) play an important role in plant physiology. However, their role in resistance induced by biogenic elicitors remains poorly understood. Using whole-genome transcriptome sequencing and our CRP search algorithm, we analyzed the repertoire of CRPs in tomato L.

Defensins of Grasses: A Systematic Review.

The grass family (Poaceae) is one of the largest families of flowering plants, growing in all climatic zones of all continents, which includes species of exceptional economic importance. The high adaptability of grasses to adverse environmental factors implies the existence of efficient resistance mechanisms that involve the production of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Of plant AMPs, defensins represent one of the largest and best-studied families.

Non-Specific Lipid Transfer Proteins in Dorof. et Migush.: Identification, Characterization and Expression Profiling in Response to Pathogens and Resistance Inducers.

Non-specific lipid-transfer proteins (nsLTPs) represent a family of plant antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) implicated in diverse physiological processes. However, their role in induced resistance (IR) triggered by non-pathogenic fungal strains and their metabolites is poorly understood. In this work, using RNA-seq data and our AMP search pipeline, we analyzed the repertoire of nsLTP genes in the wheat and studied their expression in response to infection and treatment with the intracellular metabolites of FS-94.

Defensin-like peptides in wheat analyzed by whole-transcriptome sequencing: a focus on structural diversity and role in induced resistance.

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are the main components of the plant innate immune system. Defensins represent the most important AMP family involved in defense and non-defense functions. In this work, global RNA sequencing and transcriptome assembly were performed to explore the diversity of defensin-like (DEFL) genes in the wheat and to study their role in induced resistance (IR) mediated by the elicitor metabolites of a non-pathogenic strain FS-94 of .

An Extract Purified from the Mycelium of a Tomato Wilt-Controlling Strain of Can Protect Wheat against Fusarium and Common Root Rots.

An approach to manage seed-transmitted Fusarium crown-foot-root rot (FCR, spp.) and common root rot (CRR, ) on wheat, avoiding environmental risks of chemicals, is seed treatments with microbial metabolites. strain FS-94 that induces resistance to tomato wilt was shown by this study to be a source of non-fungitoxic wheat-protecting metabolites, which were contained in a mycelium extract purified by gel-chromatography and ultrafiltration.

A novel antifungal peptide from leaves of the weed Stellaria media L.

A novel peptide named SmAMP3 was isolated from leaves of common chickweed (Stellaria media L.) by a combination of acidic extraction and a single-step reversed-phase HPLC and sequenced. The peptide is basic and cysteine-rich, consists of 35 amino acids, and contains three disulphide bridges.