Université de Fribourg

The cuticle mutant eca2 modifies plant defense responses to biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens and herbivory insects

Blanc, Catherine ; Coluccia, Fania ; L?Haridon, Floriane ; Torres, Martha ; Ortiz-Berrocal, Marlene ; Stahl, Elia ; Reymond, Philippe ; Schreiber, Lukas ; Nawrath, Christiane ; Métraux, Jean-Pierre ; Serrano, Mario

In: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2017, vol. 31, no. 3, p. 344–355

We isolated previously several Arabidopsis thaliana mutants with constitutive expression of the early microbe-associated molecular pattern–induced gene ATL2, named eca (expresión constitutiva de ATL2). Here, we further explored the interaction of eca mutants with pest and pathogens. Of all eca mutants, eca2 was more resistant to a fungal pathogen (Botrytis cinerea) and a bacterial pathogen...

Université de Fribourg

The epidermis-specific extracellular BODYGUARD controls cuticle development and morphogenesis in Arabidopsis

Kurdyukov, Sergey ; Faust, Andrea ; Nawrath, Christiane ; Bär, Sascha ; Voisin, Derry ; Efremova, Nadia ; Franke, Rochus ; Schreiber, Lukas ; Saedler, Heinz ; Métraux, Jean-Pierre ; Yephremov, Alexander

In: The Plant Cell, 2006, vol. 18, p. 321

The outermost epidermal cell wall is specialized to withstand pathogens and natural stresses, and lipid-based cuticular polymers are the major barrier against incursions. The Arabidopsis thaliana mutant bodyguard (bdg), which exhibits defects characteristic of the loss of cuticle structure not attributable to a lack of typical cutin monomers, unexpectedly accumulates...