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Sugar flux and signaling in plant–microbe interactions
Author(s) -
Bezrutczyk Margaret,
Yang Jungil,
Eom JoonSeob,
Prior Matthew,
Sosso Davide,
Hartwig Thomas,
Szurek Boris,
Oliva Ricardo,
VeraCruz Casiana,
White Frank F.,
Yang Bing,
Frommer Wolf B.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the plant journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.058
H-Index - 269
eISSN - 1365-313X
pISSN - 0960-7412
DOI - 10.1111/tpj.13775
Subject(s) - biology , transporter , computational biology , sugar , microbiology and biotechnology , genome , flux (metallurgy) , plant disease resistance , disease , gene , genetics , biochemistry , chemistry , medicine , organic chemistry , pathology
Summary Plant breeders have developed crop plants that are resistant to pests, but the continual evolution of pathogens creates the need to iteratively develop new control strategies. Molecular tools have allowed us to gain deep insights into disease responses, allowing for more efficient, rational engineering of crops that are more robust or resistant to a greater number of pathogen variants. Here we describe the roles of SWEET and STP transporters, membrane proteins that mediate transport of sugars across the plasma membrane. We discuss how these transporters may enhance or restrict disease through controlling the level of nutrients provided to pathogens and whether the transporters play a role in sugar signaling for disease resistance. This review indicates open questions that require further research and proposes the use of genome editing technologies for engineering disease resistance.