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Root-Based Innate Immunity and Its Suppression by the Mutualistic Fungus Piriformospora indica

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Abstract

Plants are confronted with an ever-changing spectrum of pathogenic and mutualistic microbes among which a considerable number possess the ability to colonize plant roots. Root pathogens cause the most devastating diseases whose control is mostly unsuccessful in agricultural ecosystems due to the limited access of roots for chemical protection strategies and the unavailability of resistant germplasms. Roots are also colonized by mutualistic microbes such as mycorrhizal fungi or nitrogen-fixing bacteria. It is currently almost unknown how plants discriminate between harmful and beneficial root colonizers. Recent studies demonstrated the existence of a root innate immune system, whose organization shows high similarities to leaf innate immunity and which is also activated after recognition of microbe-associated molecular patterns. Within this review, we will introduce the current knowledge of root innate immunity in pathogenic and mutualistic plant–microbe interactions. We will put emphasis on the colonization strategy of the mutualistic fungus Piriformospora indica and describe its immune-suppressing activity in roots, which is essentially required to colonize roots.

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Jacobs, S., Kogel, KH., Schäfer, P. (2013). Root-Based Innate Immunity and Its Suppression by the Mutualistic Fungus Piriformospora indica . In: Varma, A., Kost, G., Oelmüller, R. (eds) Piriformospora indica. Soil Biology, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33802-1_13

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