Barrit, T.; Planchet, E.; Lothier, J.; Satour, P.; Aligon, S.; Tcherkez, G.; Limami, A.M.; Campion, C.; Teulat, B. Nitrogen Nutrition Modulates the Response to Alternaria brassicicola Infection via Metabolic Modifications in Arabidopsis Seedlings. Plants2024, 13, 534.
Barrit, T.; Planchet, E.; Lothier, J.; Satour, P.; Aligon, S.; Tcherkez, G.; Limami, A.M.; Campion, C.; Teulat, B. Nitrogen Nutrition Modulates the Response to Alternaria brassicicola Infection via Metabolic Modifications in Arabidopsis Seedlings. Plants 2024, 13, 534.
Barrit, T.; Planchet, E.; Lothier, J.; Satour, P.; Aligon, S.; Tcherkez, G.; Limami, A.M.; Campion, C.; Teulat, B. Nitrogen Nutrition Modulates the Response to Alternaria brassicicola Infection via Metabolic Modifications in Arabidopsis Seedlings. Plants2024, 13, 534.
Barrit, T.; Planchet, E.; Lothier, J.; Satour, P.; Aligon, S.; Tcherkez, G.; Limami, A.M.; Campion, C.; Teulat, B. Nitrogen Nutrition Modulates the Response to Alternaria brassicicola Infection via Metabolic Modifications in Arabidopsis Seedlings. Plants 2024, 13, 534.
Abstract
Little is known about the effect of nitrogen nutrition on seedling susceptibility to seed-borne pathogens. We have previously shown that seedlings grown under high nitrate (5 mM) conditions are less susceptible than those grown under low nitrate (0.1 mM) and ammonium (5 mM) in the Arabidopsis-Alternaria brassicicola pathosystem. However, it is not known how seedling metabolism is modulated by nitrogen nutrition, nor what is its response to pathogen infection. Here, we addressed this question using the same pathosystem and nutritive conditions, examining germination kinetics, seedling development, but also shoot ion contents, metabolome and selected gene expression. Nitrogen nutrition clearly altered the seedling metabolome. A similar metabolomic profile was observed in inoculated seedlings grown at high nitrate levels and in not inoculated-seedlings. High nitrate levels also led to specific gene expression patterns (e.g. polyamine metabolism), while other genes responded to inoculation regardless of nitrogen supply conditions. Furthermore, the metabolites best correlated with high disease symptoms were coumarate, tyrosine, hemicellulose sugars and polyamines, and those associated with low symptoms were organic acids (tricarboxylic acid pathway, glycerate, shikimate), sugars derivatives and β-alanine. Overall, our results suggest that the beneficial effect of high nitrate nutrition on seedling susceptibility is likely due to nutritive and signaling mechanisms affecting developmental plant processes detrimental to the pathogen. In particular, it may be due to a constitutively high tryptophan metabolism, as well as down regulation of oxidative stress caused by polyamine catabolism.
Keywords
ammonium; necrotrophic fungus; nitrate; polyamines; seed germination; seedling development
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Plant Sciences
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