Microbiota-dependent and -independent autoimmunity in plants

Lijing Liu; Dev Patel; Olivia Cyburt; Daowen Wang; Zheng Qing Fu

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.003

Microbiota-dependent and -independent autoimmunity in plants

Trends Plant Sci. 2024 Dec 24:S1360-1385(24)00339-X. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.003. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Lijing Liu¹, Dev Patel², Olivia Cyburt², Daowen Wang³, Zheng Qing Fu⁴

Affiliations

¹ The Key Laboratory of Plant Development and Environmental Adaptation Biology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China.
² Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
³ State Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science, College of Agronomy and Center for Crop Genome Engineering, Henan Agricultural University, Longzi Lake Campus, Zhengzhou 450046, China. Electronic address: dwwang@henau.edu.cn.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. Electronic address: zfu@mailbox.sc.edu.

PMID: 39721841
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.12.003

Abstract

In a recent study to identify arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) genes involved in maintaining normal leaf microbiota, Cheng et al. discovered TIP GROWTH DEFECTIVE1 (TIP1) encoding an S-acyltransferase. The tip1 mutant exhibits abnormal microbiota levels and phenotypes resembling autoimmune mutants. Further study revealed the existence of both microbiota-dependent and -independent autoimmunity in plants.

Keywords: NLR genes; TIP1; autoimmunity; lesion mimic mutants; microbiota.

Published by Elsevier Ltd.