Abstract
Systemic signaling pathways enable multicellular organisms to prepare all of their tissues and cells to an upcoming challenge that may initially only be sensed by a few local cells. They are activated in plants in response to different stimuli including mechanical injury, pathogen infection, and abiotic stresses. Key to the mobilization of systemic signals in higher plants are cell-to-cell communication events that have thus far been mostly unstudied. The recent identification of systemically propagating calcium (Ca2+) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) waves in plants has unraveled a new and exciting cell-to-cell communication pathway that, together with electric signals, could provide a working model demonstrating how plant cells transmit long-distance signals via cell-to-cell communication mechanisms. Here, we summarize recent findings on the ROS and Ca2+ waves and outline a possible model for their integration.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 623-630 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Trends in Plant Science |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Oct 2014 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
Funding
We thank the NSF [IOS-1353886, IOS-0639964, IOS-0743954 (RM); IOS-11213800, MCB-1329723 (SG)] and NASA [NNX12AK79G (SG)] for financial support and gratefully acknowledge the PRESTO program of The Japanese Science and Technology Agency for funding MT. We must apologize to our many colleagues whose work could not be cited owing to space limitations.
Funders | Funder number |
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National Science Foundation | MCB-1329723, IOS-0743954, IOS-1353886, 1121380, IOS-0639964, IOS-11213800, 1063287 |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NNX12AK79G |
Japan Science and Technology Agency |
Keywords
- Calcium
- NADPH oxidase
- Reactive oxygen species
- Systemic signaling