First published online August 16, 2002; 10.1104/pp.005314
Plant Physiol, September 2002, Vol. 130, pp. 494-503
Resistance of Cultivated Tomato to Cell Content-Feeding
Herbivores Is Regulated by the Octadecanoid-Signaling
Pathway1
Chuanyou
Li,2
Mark M.
Williams,2
Ying-Tsu
Loh,
Gyu In
Lee, and
Gregg A.
Howe*
Department of Energy-Plant Research Laboratory (C.L., M.M.W.,
Y.-T.L., G.I.L., G.A.H.), and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology (G.A.H.), Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
48824
The octadecanoid signaling pathway has been shown to play an
important role in plant defense against various chewing insects and
some pathogenic fungi. Here, we examined the interaction of a
cell-content feeding arachnid herbivore, the two-spotted spider mite
(Tetranychus urticae Koch), with cultivated tomato
(Lycopersicon esculentum) and an isogenic mutant line
(defenseless-1 [def-1]) that is
deficient in the biosynthesis of the octadecanoid pathway-derived signal, jasmonic acid (JA). Spider mite feeding and fecundity on
def-1 plants was significantly greater than on wild-type
plants. Decreased resistance of def-1 plants was
correlated with reduced JA accumulation and expression of defensive
proteinase inhibitor (PI) genes, which were induced in
mite-damaged wild-type leaves. Treatment of def-1 plants
with methyl-JA restored resistance to spider mite feeding and reduced
the fecundity of female mites. Plants expressing a
35S::prosystemin transgene that constitutively activates the octadecanoid pathway in a Def-1-dependent
manner were highly resistant to attack by spider mites and western
flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis), another
cell-content feeder of economic importance. These findings indicate
that activation of the octadecanoid signaling pathway promotes
resistance of tomato to a broad spectrum of herbivores. The techniques
of amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and bulk segregant
analysis were used to map the Def-1 gene to a region on
the long arm of chromosome 3 that is genetically separable from the map
position of known JA biosynthetic genes. Tight linkage of
Def-1 to a T-DNA insertion harboring the maize
(Zea mays) Dissociation transposable element suggests a strategy for directed transposon tagging of the gene.
1
This research was supported by the National
Institutes of Health (grant no. GM57795 to G.A.H.), by the U.S.
Department of Energy (grant no. DE-FG02-91ER20021 to G.A.H.), and by
the Michigan Life Science Corridor (grant no. 085P1000466 to
G.A.H.).
2
These authors contributed equally to the paper.
*
Corresponding author; e-mail howeg{at}msu.edu; fax 517-353-9168.
© 2002 American Society of Plant Physiologists
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