DOI

Various plant hormones can integrate developmental and environmental responses, acting in a complex network, which allows plants to adjust their developmental processes to changing environments. In particular, plant peptide hormones regulate various aspects of plant growth and development as well as the response to environmental stress and the interaction of plants with their pathogens and symbionts. Various plant-interacting organisms, e.g., bacterial and fungal pathogens, plant-parasitic nematodes, as well as symbiotic and plant-beneficial bacteria and fungi, are able to manipulate phytohormonal level and/or signaling in the host plant in order to overcome plant immunity and to create the habitat and food source inside the plant body. The most striking example of such phytohormonal mimicry is the ability of certain plant pathogens and symbionts to produce peptide phytohormones of different classes. To date, in the genomes of plant-interacting bacteria, fungi, and nematodes, the genes encoding effectors which mimic seven classes of peptide phytohormones have been found. For some of these effectors, the interaction with plant receptors for peptide hormones and the effect on plant development and defense have been demonstrated. In this review, we focus on the currently described classes of peptide phytohormones found among the representatives of other kingdoms, as well as mechanisms of their action and possible evolutional origin.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2243
Number of pages25
JournalPlants
Volume10
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Oct 2021

    Research areas

  • C-TERMINALLY ENCODED PEPTIDES (CEP), CLAVATA3/EMBRYO SURROUNDING REGION-RELATED (CLE), Effectors, INFLORESCENCE DEFICIENT IN ABSCISSION (IDA), Phytosulphokines (PSK), PLANT ELICITOR PEPTIDES (PEP), Plant parasitic nematodes, PLANT PEPTIDES CONTAINING SULFATED TYROSINE (PSY), Plant–microbe interaction, RAPID ALKALINIZATION FACTOR (RALF), PLANT-PATHOGENIC BACTERIA, AVIRULENCE PROTEIN, CLE PEPTIDES, effectors, plant parasitic nematodes, MOLECULAR MIMICRY, HORIZONTAL GENE-TRANSFER, VARIABLE DOMAIN, EMBRYO SURROUNDING REGION-RELATED (CLE), STEM-CELL FATE, HETERODERA-SCHACHTII, CLAVATA3, RAPID ALKALINIZATION FACTOR, EFFECTOR, plant-microbe interaction, phytosulphokines (PSK)

    Scopus subject areas

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology

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