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Intercellular Communication in Plants: Evidence for an EMF-Generated Signal that Evokes Local and Systemic Transcriptional Responses in Tomato

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Long-Distance Systemic Signaling and Communication in Plants

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Exposing the oldest leaf of a tomato plant to a short (10 min), low-amplitude (5 V.m−1), high-frequency (900 MHz) electromagnetic field evoked a rapid (15 min) and systemic accumulation of the stress-related transcript LebZIP-1 in the exposed leaf and in the distant, terminal leaf that is protected from EMF radiation. The accumulation was prevented by calcium counteracting drugs both locally and systemically. It was also prevented, but only in the distant tissue, in the ABA tomato mutant Sitiens or in wild-type tomato grown in the presence of the ABA synthesis inhibitor naproxen.

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The authors wish to thank “l’Académie des Sciences de l’Institut de France” for the “Grand Prix de Physiologie Intégrative Pierre et Cyril Grivet 2008” awarded to A. Vian that partially supported this research.

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    A. Vian

  2. Department of Plant Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7612, USA

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  3. Institut Pascal, UMR 6602 CNRS-Université Blaise Pascal, 10448, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France

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Vian, A., Davies, E., Bonnet, P. (2013). Intercellular Communication in Plants: Evidence for an EMF-Generated Signal that Evokes Local and Systemic Transcriptional Responses in Tomato. In: Baluška, F. (eds) Long-Distance Systemic Signaling and Communication in Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36470-9_16

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