Wheat zinc finger protein TaLSD1, a negative regulator of programmed cell death, is involved in wheat resistance against stripe rust fungus.

Plant Physiol Biochem

State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Taicheng Road 3, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, PR China. Electronic address:

Published: October 2013

Genetic characterization of the Arabidopsis lesion simulating disease 1 (lsd1) mutant, a lesion mimic mutant (LMM), has revealed the essential role of AtLSD1 in the negative regulation of cell death and disease resistance. The three zinc-finger motifs found in AtLSD1 revealed a novel plant-specific gene family, whose members are significantly related to programmed cell death (PCD). In this study, we characterized a functional homologue to AtLSD1, TaLSD1, in the wheat-stripe rust fungus pathosystem. The expression of TaLSD1 was differentially induced during incompatible and compatible interactions between wheat and Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) and was up-regulated by oxidative stress generated by methyl viologen (MV). TaLSD1 was found to be predominately localized in the nucleus of onion epidermal cell. Transient overexpression assays in Nicotiana benthamiana demonstrated that TaLSD1 partially inhibited programmed cell death triggered by a mouse Bax protein, whereas expression of TaLSD1 alone had no influence on the phenotype of tobacco. Knocking down the expression of TaLSD1 through virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) increased wheat resistance against Pst accompanied by an enhanced hypersensitive response (HR), an increase in PR1 gene expression and a reduction in Pst hyphal growth. Our results suggest that TaLSD1 functions negatively in regulating the plant hypersensitive cell death and is involved in disease resistance of wheat against the stripe rust pathogen.

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