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Chitooligosaccharide elicitor and oxylipins synergistically elevate phytoalexin production in rice

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We show that in rice, the amino acid-conjugates of JA precursor, OPDA, may function as a non-canonical signal for the production of phytoalexins in coordination with the innate chitin signaling.

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The core oxylipins, jasmonic acid (JA) and JA-Ile, are well-known as potent regulators of plant defense against necrotrophic pathogens and/or herbivores. However, recent studies also suggest that other oxylipins, including 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (OPDA), may contribute to plant defense. Here, we used a previously characterized metabolic defense marker, p-coumaroylputrescine (CoP), and fungal elicitor, chitooligosaccharide, to specifically test defense role of various oxylipins in rice (Oryza sativa). While fungal elicitor triggered a rapid production of JA, JA-Ile, and their precursor OPDA, rice cells exogenously treated with the compounds revealed that OPDA, rather than JA-Ile, can stimulate the CoP production. Next, reverse genetic approach and oxylipin-deficient rice mutant (hebiba) were used to uncouple oxylipins from other elicitor-triggered signals. It appeared that, without oxylipins, residual elicitor signaling had only a minimal effect but, in synergy with OPDA, exerted a strong stimulatory activity towards CoP production. Furthermore, as CoP levels were compromised in the OPDA-treated Osjar1 mutant cells impaired in the oxylipin-amino acid conjugation, putative OPDA-amino acid conjugates emerged as hypothetical regulators of CoP biosynthesis. Accordingly, we found several OPDA-amino acid conjugates in rice cells treated with exogenous OPDA, and OPDA-Asp was detected, although in small amounts, in the chitooligosaccharide-treated rice. However, as synthetic OPDA-Asp and OPDA-Ile, so far, failed to induce CoP in cells, it suggests that yet another presumed OPDA-amino acid form(s) could be acting as novel regulator(s) of phytoalexins in rice.

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We thank Drs. Peter Nick and Michael Riemann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) for providing hebiba mutant seeds and GST-OsAOC plasmid; Drs. Naoto Shibuya and Hanae Kaku (Meiji University) for providing chitooligosaccharides; Dr. Hideyuki Matsuura (Hokkaido University) for providing deuterated jasmonate standards for LC-MS/MS; Ms. Tomoko Sakazawa for her help with OPDA-AAs purification; Ms. Hiroko Nakatani (Okayama University) for her help with rice callus maintenance. This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) as part of the Joint Research Program implemented at the Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 16K08143 to I.G., No. 18K05558 and 21K05506 to T.S.), and Ohara Foundation for Agriculture Research.

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This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) as part of the Joint Research Program implemented at the Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 16K08143 to I.G., No. 18K05558 and 21K05506 to T.S.), and Ohara Foundation for Agriculture Research.

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TS, KM, KU, HY, IG—designed and conducted experiments, wrote paper; KO—designed experiments, wrote paper; YH, YE—conducted experiments, analyzed data.

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Correspondence to Tomonori Shinya.

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Shinya, T., Miyamoto, K., Uchida, K. et al. Chitooligosaccharide elicitor and oxylipins synergistically elevate phytoalexin production in rice. Plant Mol Biol 109, 595–609 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11103-021-01217-w

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