30 October 2020
Haiyan Xiong, Lei Hua, Ivan Reyna-Llorens, Yi Shi, Kun-Ming Chen, Nicholas Smirnoff, Johannes Kromdijk, and Julian M. Hibberd - PNAS, 2020
The ability of plants to initiate systemic responses to local biotic and abiotic stress is well known. One such example takes place after exposure to high-light episodes and involves an initial, local accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the region exposed to excessive light. Overexcitation of the photosynthetic apparatus has long been known to lead to ROS production, but whether this is necessary and sufficient is not known. Here, we show that local synthesis of ROS also requires NADPH oxidases located in bundle-sheath strands and is not dependent on photosynthesis. As NADPH oxidases also allow the systemic ROS response, this work identifies a component that unifies both the local and systemic responses of plants to high light.
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