Plant Physiology
Plant Physiology
5 years ago

Arabidopsis ACTIN-DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR3 is required for controlling aphid feeding from the phloem.

Monika Patel, Lani Archer, Joe Louis, Hossain A Mondal, Vamsi J Nalam, Vishala Sivapalan, Sujon Sarowar, Douglas D Root, Jyoti Shah
The actin cytoskeleton network has an important role in plant cell growth, division and stress response. Actin-depolymerizing factors (ADFs) are a group of actin-binding proteins that contribute to reorganization of the actin network. Here we show that the Arabidopsis thaliana ADF3 is required in the phloem for controlling infestation by Myzus persicae Sülzer, commonly known as the green peach aphid (GPA), which is an important phloem sap-consuming pest of more than fifty plant families. In agreement with a role for the actin-depolymerizing function of ADF3 in defense against the GPA, we show that resistance in adf3 was restored by overexpression of the related ADF4, and the actin cytoskeleton destabilizers, cytochalasin D and latrunculin B. Electrical monitoring of the GPA feeding behavior indicates that the GPA stylets found sieve elements faster when feeding on the adf3 mutant compared to the wild-type (WT) plant. In addition, once they found the sieve elements, the GPA fed for a more prolonged period from sieve elements of adf3 compared to the WT plant. The longer feeding period correlated with an increase in fecundity and population size of the GPA and a parallel reduction in callose deposition in the adf3 mutant. The adf3-conferred susceptibility to GPA was overcome by expression of the ADF3 coding sequence from the phloem-specific SUC2 promoter, thus confirming the importance of ADF3 function in the phloem. We further demonstrate that the ADF3-dependent defense mechanism is linked to the transcriptional upregulation of PHYTOALEXIN-DEFICIENT4, which is an important regulator of defenses against the GPA.

Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01438

DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.01438

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