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Pseudomonas syringae  pv.  tomato  DC3000 ( Pst  DC3000) is a well-known pathogen and model organism used to study plant-pathogen interactions and subsequent plant immune responses. Numerous studies have demonstrated the effect of  Pst  DC3000 on  Arabidopsis  plants and how type III effectors are required to promote bacterial virulence and pathogenesis. F-Box Nictaba (encoded by  At2g02360 ) is a stress-inducible lectin that is upregulated in  Arabidopsis thaliana  leaves after  Pst  DC3000 infection. In this study, a flood inoculation assay was optimized to check the performance of transgenic  Arabidopsis  seedlings with different expression levels of F-Box Nictaba after bacterial infection. Using a combination of multispectral and fluorescent imaging combined with molecular techniques, disease symptoms, transcript levels for F-Box Nictaba, and disease-related genes were studied in  Arabidopsis  leaves infected with two virulent strains:  Pst  DC3000 and its mutant strain, deficient in flagellin Δ fliC . Analyses of plants infected with fluorescently labeled  Pst  DC3000 allowed us to study the differences in bacterial colonization between plant lines. Overexpression plants showed a reduced bacterial content during the later stages of the infection. Our results show that overexpression of F-Box Nictaba resulted in reduced leaf damage after bacterial infections, whereas knockdown and knockout lines were not more susceptible to  Pseudomonas  infection than wild-type plants. In contrast to wild-type and knockout plants, overexpressing lines for F-Box Nictaba revealed a significant increase in anthocyanin content, better efficiency of photosystem II (Fv/Fm), and higher chlorophyll content after  Pst  DC3000 infection. Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba coincided with increased expression of salicylic acid (SA) related defense genes, confirming earlier data that showed that F-Box Nictaba is part of the SA-dependent defense against  Pst  DC3000 infection. Knockout lines yielded no discernible effects on plant symptoms after  Pseudomonas  infection suggesting possible gene redundancy between F-Box Nictaba genes.

Overexpression of F-Box Nictaba Promotes Defense and Anthocyanin Accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana After Pseudomonas syringae Infection