Gene expression profiling and silencing reveal that monolignol biosynthesis plays a critical role in penetration defence in wheat against powdery mildew invasion

NH Bhuiyan, G Selvaraj, Y Wei… - Journal of experimental …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Cell wall apposition (CWA) formation is one of the first lines of defence used by plants to halt
invading fungi such as powdery mildew. Lignin is a complex polymer of hydroxylated and …

Role of lignification in plant defense

NH Bhuiyan, G Selvaraj, Y Wei, J King - Plant signaling & behavior, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
For a long time it has been believed that lignification has an important role in host defense
against pathogen invasion. Recently, by using an RNAi gene-silencing assay we showed …

Transcriptome analysis of mlo‐mediated resistance in the epidermis of barley

UWE Zierold, UWE Scholz… - Molecular Plant …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The shoot epidermis of plants is of prime importance for host and non‐host defence against
a large number of fungal diseases, including powdery mildew of barley, caused by Blumeria …

The barley (Hordeum vulgare) cellulose synthase‐like D2 gene (HvCslD2) mediates penetration resistance to host‐adapted and nonhost isolates of the powdery …

D Douchkov, S Lueck, G Hensel, J Kumlehn… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Cell walls and cellular turgor pressure shape and suspend the bodies of all vascular plants.
In response to attack by fungal and oomycete pathogens, which usually breach their host's …

The cotton laccase gene GhLAC15 enhances Verticillium wilt resistance via an increase in defence‐induced lignification and lignin components in the cell walls of …

Y Zhang, L Wu, X Wang, B Chen, J Zhao… - Molecular plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Verticillium dahliae is a phytopathogenic fungal pathogen that causes vascular wilt diseases
responsible for considerable decreases in cotton yields. The lignification of cell wall …

Lignin and its pathway-associated phytoalexins modulate plant defense against fungi

V Ninkuu, J Yan, Z Fu, T Yang, J Ziemah, MS Ullrich… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungi infections cause approximately 60–70% yield loss through diseases such as rice
blast, powdery mildew, Fusarium rot, downy mildew, etc. Plants naturally respond to these …

Functional Conservation of Wheat and Rice Mlo Orthologs in Defense Modulation to the Powdery Mildew Fungus

C Elliott, F Zhou, W Spielmeyer… - Molecular plant …, 2002 - Am Phytopath Society
Homologs of barley Mlo are found in syntenic positions in all three genomes of hexaploid
bread wheat, Triticum aestivum, and in rice, Oryza sativa. Candidate wheat orthologs …

Functional contribution of chorismate synthase, anthranilate synthase, and chorismate mutase to penetration resistance in barley–powdery mildew interactions

P Hu, Y Meng, RP Wise - Molecular Plant-Microbe …, 2009 - Am Phytopath Society
Plant processes resulting from primary or secondary metabolism have been hypothesized to
contribute to defense against microbial attack. Barley chorismate synthase (HvCS) …

Structural analyses and dynamics of soluble and cell wall-bound phenolics in a broad spectrum resistance to the powdery mildew fungus in barley

E von Röpenack, A Parr, P Schulze-Lefert - Journal of Biological …, 1998 - ASBMB
High pressure liquid chromatography profiles of barley leaf epidermal soluble and cell wall-
bound phenolics were analyzed in response to challenge with the fungal pathogenErysiphe …

Expression of lignin biosynthetic genes in wheat during development and upon infection by fungal pathogens

C Bi, F Chen, L Jackson, BS Gill, W Li - Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 2011 - Springer
As a major component of the cell wall, lignin plays an important role in plant development
and defense response to pathogens, but negatively impacts biomass processability for …