title: NO way to live; the various roles of nitric oxide in plant-pathogen interactions.
abstract: Nitric oxide has attracted considerable interest from plant pathologists due its established role in regulating mammalian anti-microbial defences, particularly via programmed cell death (PCD). Although NO plays a major role in plant PCD elicited in response to certain types of pathogenic challenge, the race-specific hypersensitive response (HR), it is now evident that NO also acts in the regulation of non-specific, papilla-based resistance to penetration by plant cells that survive attack and, possibly, in systemic acquired resistance. Equally, the potential roles of NO signalling/scavenging within the pathogen are being recognized. This review will consider key defensive roles played by NO in living cells during plant-pathogen interactions, as well as in those undergoing PCD.
authors.affiliation: University of Wales Aberystwyth, Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2DA, UK. lum@aber.ac.uk
authors.forename: Luis A J
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Mur
authors.forename: Tim L W
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Carver
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Prats
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics / Q000472:pathogenicity; D001467:Hordeum / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000382:microbiology; D007113:Immunity, Innate / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D010802:Phylogeny; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000382:microbiology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D009569:Nitric Oxide