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Cell Cycle Regulation in Nematode Feeding Sites

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Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Plant-Nematode Interactions

Part of the book series: Developments in Plant Pathology ((DIPP,volume 10))

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Sedentary endoparasitic nematodes induce multinucleate feeding cells in the roots of their host plants. These cells undergo multiple rounds of shortened cell cycles leading to genome amplification and hypertrophy of the cytoplasm. After explaining the specific terminology involved, this chapter reviews the cytological observations in giant cells induced by root-knot nematodes and syncytia induced by cyst nematodes. Recent molecular research into cell cycle regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana has been extended from normal plant development to the changes induced by these sedentary nematodes. In this way it has been demonstrated that several cell cycle genes are activated in developing feeding cells. To analyze the importance of cell cycle activation for the establishment of feeding cells, cell cycle-inhibiting drugs have been used and experiments with plants producing dominant mutant proteins will be performed in the near future.

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Gheysen, G., de Almeida Engler, J., van Montagu, M. (1997). Cell Cycle Regulation in Nematode Feeding Sites. In: Fenoll, C., Grundler, F.M.W., Ohl, S.A. (eds) Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Plant-Nematode Interactions. Developments in Plant Pathology, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5596-0_10

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