CCM: Wheat mediator subunit TaMED25 interacts with transcription factor TaEIL1 to negatively regulate disease resistance against powdery mildew 09-14-2016

Summary: Powdery mildew is a major limitation for the production of bread wheat. Lately, researchers found that MED25 may play a conserved role in regulating bread wheat and barley susceptibility to powdery mildew and they identified the TaMED25-TaEIL1-TaERF1 signaling module as a negative regulator of bread wheat resistance to powdery mildew.

 

*New on the official website of the Institute of Crop Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.


 

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Powdery mildew, caused by the biotrophic fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici (Bgt), is a major limitation for the production of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). However, to date, the transcriptional regulation of bread wheat defense against powdery mildew remains largely unknown.

 

Thus, researchers Liu Jie, Zhang Tianren, Jia Jizeng and Sun Jiaqiang reported the function and molecular mechanism of the bread wheat Mediator subunit 25 (TaMED25) in regulating bread wheat immune response signaling pathway. Three homoeoalleles of TaMED25 from bread wheat were identified and mapped to chromosomes 5A, 5B, and 5D, respectively. They showed that knockdown of TaMED25 by Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus (BSMV)-induced gene silencing (VIGS) reduced bread wheat susceptibility to the powdery mildew fungus during the compatible plant-pathogen interaction.

 

Moreover, their results indicated that MED25 may play a conserved role in regulating bread wheat and barley susceptibility to powdery mildew. Similarly, the bread wheat ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE3-LIKE1 (TaEIL1), an ortholog of Arabidopsis ETHYLENE INSENSITIVE3 (EIN3), negatively regulates bread wheat resistance against powdery mildew.


 


Using various approaches, they demonstrated that the conserved activator-interacting domain (ACID) of TaMED25 physically interacts with the separate N- and C-terminal regions of TaEIL1, contributing to the transcriptional activation activity of TaEIL1. Further, they showed that TaMED25 and TaEIL1 synergistically activate ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR1 (TaERF1) transcription to modulate bread wheat basal disease resistance to Bgt through repressing the expression of pathogenesis related (PRs) genes and deterring the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS).

 

Collectively, they identified the TaMED25-TaEIL1-TaERF1 signaling module as a negative regulator of bread wheat resistance to powdery mildew.


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