摘要
Electrical signals commonly occur in plants in response to various environmental changes and have a dominant function in plant acclimation.The transduction of wound-elicited electrical signals in the model plant spedes Arabidopsis has been characterized but the characteristics of electrical signal transduction in response to herbivory or wounding in crop species remain unknown.Here,the features of electrical signals elicited by insect herbivory and wounding in tomato were investigated.Unlike those in Arabidopsis,wounding tomato leaves did not cause leaf-to-leaf electrical signal transduction.In contrast,electrical signals elicited in response to petiole wounding were stronger and more strongly transduced.Leaflet wounding also activated electrical signal transduction and jasmonic acid(JA)signaling within the whole compound leaf.It was also demonstrated that tomato glutamate receptor-like 3.3(GLR3.3)and GLR3.5 mediated leaflet-to-leaflet electrical signal transduction.Herbivory-induced JA accumulation and Helicoverpa armigera resistance were reduced in glr3.3/3.5 plants.This work reveals the nature of electrical signal transduction in tomato and emphasizes the key roles of GLR3.3 and GLR3.5 in electrical signal transduction and JA signaling activation.
基金
the National Natural Science Foundation of China Projects of International Cooperation and Exchange(32020103013)
the Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System of China(CARS-25-02A).
