title: Oligosaccharide recognition signals and defence reactions in marine plant-microbe interactions.
abstract: Recent findings on the involvement of oligosaccharide signals in pathogen recognition and defence reactions in marine algae shine a new light on the ecology of their interactions with associated microorganisms. Since the marine environment encompasses lineages that have diverged a long time ago from the terrestrial phyla, these results suggest that cell-cell recognition pathways typical of terrestrial plants appeared very early in the evolution of eukaryotes. Production of oligosaccharides from marine algae using microbial recombinant polysaccharidases is also of industrial interest as plants can be protected from infections by preincubation in the presence of appropriate signals that mimic the attacks by pathogens.
authors.affiliation: Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS UMR 1931, Place Georges Teissier, BP 74, F-29682, Roscoff cedex, France. potin@sb-roscoff.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Potin
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bouarab
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Küpper
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kloareg
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000254:growth & development*; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000382:microbiology / Q000502:physiology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D009844:Oligosaccharides