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    Hypoxia represses pattern-triggered immune responses in Arabidopsis


    Mooney, Brian C, Doorly, Catherine M, Mantz, Melissa, García, Pablo, Huesgen, Pitter F and Graciet, Emmanuelle (2024) Hypoxia represses pattern-triggered immune responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 196 (3). pp. 2064-2077. ISSN 0032-0889

    Abstract

    Biotic and abiotic stresses frequently co-occur in nature, yet relatively little is known about how plants coordinate the response to combined stresses. Protein degradation by the ubiquitin/proteasome system is central to the regulation of multiple independent stress response pathways in plants. The Arg/N-degron pathway is a subset of the ubiquitin/proteasome system that targets proteins based on their N-termini and has been specifically implicated in the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, including hypoxia, via accumulation of group VII ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR (ERF-VII) transcription factors that orchestrate the onset of the hypoxia response program. Here, we investigated the role of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) Arg/N-degron pathway in mediating the crosstalk between combined abiotic and biotic stresses using hypoxia treatments and the flg22 elicitor of pattern-triggered immunity (PTI), respectively. We uncovered a link between the plant transcriptional responses to hypoxia and flg22. Combined hypoxia and flg22 treatments showed that hypoxia represses the flg22 transcriptional program, as well as the expression of pattern recognition receptors, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling and callose deposition during PTI through mechanisms that are mostly independent from the ERF-VIIs. These findings improve our understanding of the tradeoffs between plant responses to combined abiotic and biotic stresses in the context of our efforts to increase crop resilience to global climate change. Our results also show that the well-known repressive effect of hypoxia on innate immunity in animals also applies to plants.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Hypoxia; pattern-triggered; immune responses; Arabidopsis;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science & Engineering > Biology
    Item ID: 21590
    Identification Number: 10.1093/plphys/kiae432
    Depositing User: Emmanuelle Graciet
    Date Deposited: 19 May 2026 14:55
    Journal or Publication Title: Plant Physiology
    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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