1. Research and Application of
Plant Immunity
Dewen Qiu
Institute of Plant Protection
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
2. 主要内容
Concept of plant immunity
Mechanism of plant immunity
Application of plant immunity
3. Plant immunity concept
Mammals immunity
Plant disease resistance and immunity:
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Acad Sci U S A. 1954, 40(6): pp. 374–377
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substances by plant tissue after inoculation, Science. 1955,
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Ross, AF . Systemic acquired resistance induced by localized virus infections
in plants. Virology 1961, 14, 340-358.
5. New discovery
Jen Sheen, Researchers discover mechanism of plant resistance to pathogens,
Plants have effective mechanisms aimed at protecting themselves against bacteria
and fungi. Science Daily Feb. 28, 2002.
Jonathan D. G. Jones1 & Jeffery L. Dangl,The plant immune system,Nature 444,
323-329 (16 November 2006)
Shen QH, et al.Nuclear Activity of MLA Immune Receptors Links Isolate-Specific
and Basal Disease-Resistance Responses, Science, 23 February 2007: Vol. 315 no.
5815 pp. 1098-1103
Sang-Wook Park, Evans Kaimoyo, Dhirendra Kumar*, Stephen Mosher† and
Daniel F. Klessig. Methyl Salicylate is a Critical Mobile Signal for Plant Systemic
Acquired Resistance. Science, 5 October 2007: Vol. 318 no. 5847 pp. 113-116
6. New research results
Liqun Du1, Gul S. Ali3, Kayla A. Simons1, Jingguo Hou2,4, Tianbao Yang1, A.
S. N. Reddy3 & B. W. Poovaiah1, Ca2+/calmodulin regulates salicylic-acid-
mediated plant immunity. Nature 457, 1154-1158 (26 February 2009)
Thomas Boller1,* and Sheng Yang He, Innate Immunity in Plants: An Arms
Race Between Pattern Recognition Receptors in Plants and Effectors in
Microbial Pathogens. Science 8 May 2009: Vol. 324 no. 5928 pp. 742-744
Boudsocq M, Willmann MR, McCormack M, Lee H, Shan L, He P, Bush J,
Cheng SH, Sheen J, Differential innate immune signalling via Ca(2+) sensor
protein kinases. Nature. 2010 Mar 18;464(7287):418-22
15. 主要内容
Concept of plant immunity
Mechanism of plant immunity
Application of plant immunity
16. Products of Elicitor
Eden Bioscienes, “Messenger® ”
Redox Chemicals, “Oxycom”
Morse, “ KeyPlex”
Syngenta , “Actigard”
Nippon Kayaku Co Ltd, “NCI”
“Chitosan”
17. Application of Elicitor
Messenger, Promotes root growth, vigor, disease and
stress resistence, increased flowering and fruit set.
“Oxycom”, “KeyPlex”, for control of leaf spot
disease in Orange and Banana.
“Chitosan”, used in seed treatment and plant growth
enhancer, against fungal infections, control of
diseases vegetables.
“Actigard”, for downy mildew in leafy vegetables,
bacterial leaf spots in tomatoes and blue mold in
tobacco.
18. Protein elicitor from fungi
HR –inducing protein elicitor
PevD1;Hrip1--- Extracellular
Non HR protein elicitor
PeaT1;PebC1;PemG1- Intracellular
19. Disease resistance and growth were enhanced
by protein elicitor
75.5% Treatment Control
11.09
%
11.9%
20. SAR against TMV induced by protein elicitor PeaT1
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21. protein application
1 Purification of protein
2 Gene clone
3 Protein expression and function
4 Mechanism
5 Application
43. Structure of NAC domain in PeaT1
NAC domain was constructed. NAC domain formed a homodimer
from reverse direction. This structure outline was similar with a
barrel, with a hole at the center and 6 intercrossed β strands
surrounded
67. 昆虫免疫抑制蛋白
昆虫病原线虫:
多种害虫寄生天敌
表皮蛋白
抑制昆虫免疫
Steinernema glaseri
surface coat protein suppresses the
immune response of Popillia
japonica larvae
Cuticle protein on gel
一种什么蛋白,编码基因,到目前为止还没有报道
68. 抗昆虫免疫蛋白
Small-scale laboratory entomopathogenic nematode culture
The insect great wax moth is used as a culture medium
(a) Healthy (cream);
(b) Steinernema feltiae - infected (brown);
(c) Steinernema carpocapsae - infected (tan) and
(d) Heterorhabditis bacteriophora -
infected (red) larvae of Galleria mellonella.
3-5days
10 days
70. Wash residue culture
medium using the “The Big
funnel”
Wash the nematodes
out from sponge
71. Store in distilled
0.5% sodium hypochlorite for 15min water with bubbled
air for 2 days
Infective stage
Extraction in ice-cold ethanol
for 30 mins and lyophilized
The “sandwich structure” Centrifuge at 13000 rpm, 4 .c
Supernatant: Dissolve the
freeze-dry
Lipid layer
powder in
Protein solution millQ water and
incubate on ice
Pellet: for 30 mins with
Surface coat debris gently vortex
Lyophilize the extraction
72. Marker
97kd,66kd,44kd,22kd,14kd
Dissolve in 1% oNG
12% SDS-PAGE 8% native PAGE
How do they correspond?
73. IEF with ampholine
pH6
pH4
SDS-PAGE
pH4 pH7
2-D results of 35% EtOH extraction proteins
75. In vivo phagocytosis test
1.0 *107 coupled Microspherses
(3ul)
Fluorescent microscope imaging
DAPI treatment
(cell nucleolus
stain)
Grace insect medium
Microinjection
Cherry red microspheres in larva body
Bleeding
12 hours
76. Engulfment of microspheres
Keratin and Enolase protein coupled microspheres
Transparent blue: Cell nucleolus
Bright red: Microspheres
BSA coupled microspheres