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Scientists have discovered a natural, a plant that triggers the immune system, protects the plant from a secondary bacterial infection. The patent pending discovery could lead to an effective, efficient and environmentally friendly nature and the improvement of plants’ resistance against the disease, according to research published in the field of science, April 3 2009.
“The potential for plant protection products and biological processes to conventional agriculture is strong,” said John Greenberg, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago and corresponding author of the study. “This could lead to improved quality and improved yields higher.
“We’re very curious to see what is practiced in our laboratory could have that impact in the real world,” she added.
Although long known that the immune system of plants, how these systems work was the subject of study. Greenberg and his colleagues determined, a stage and to identify new links, in which the immune system in Arabidopsis, a plant which, in the same family as mustard, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower.
If the pathogen Pseudomonas syringae attacks Arabidopsis, the system increases the production of azelaic acid, then the circuit of installing the system on other parts of the installation. Azelaic acid not induce large tusks, but give the plant capacity, faster and greater response from the defense, whether and when the installation of new attack.
This is done by the production of salicylic acid, known to promote resistance in certain plants. The researchers also found that azelaic acid stimulates the production of AZ11, a protein, researchers have discovered. AZ11 premium assistance to the development of plant immunity by the generation of additional salicylic acid.
Azelaic acid signal role in plant immunity is a significant discovery because it is profitable and already a natural in Arabidopsis, and many other plants, the researchers said. In addition, it is considered safe because it is already tested in humans. It is used in anti-microbial creams for hair loss and for treating Rosaz.
Azelaic acid first and only works in the immune system, researchers believe that their use is not a burden on the facility or otherwise, installation of affecting the health and productivity. It should therefore not azelaic acid plants to invest an amount of energy to the defense, to do so.
“Priming is an area of interest to many biologists,” said Greenberg. “It is human to the immune response and probably plays a role in many reactions to environmental changes.”
Azelaic acid is for the plants by spraying. “This is an interesting possibility for plant breeding, because the physical and non-genetic modification,” said Greenberg. “Arabidopsis is a model for the study of higher plants, and we found that azelaic acid is effective with other families of plants, as well.”
Azelaic acid has a great potential in agriculture, because it is “green”, safer than chemicals, and many plants, including wheat, rye and barley, according to Wade Williams, Chief project with the Office of Technology and Intellectual Property at the University of Chicago. “We have interest in this idea of the farm, but not much more now because of the difficult economic climate,” he says. “We hope that publication in a leading, peer review as a magazine of science is a renewed interest.”
The other authors of the Science paper entitled “Priming Plant Immunity systemic”, criticizes the role played in the research, said Greenberg. Ho-Won Jung, the author and a post-doctoral fellow in molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago, optimized for active method for the production of plants or plant waste SAP. Timothy Tschaplinski staff of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and analysis of metabolites in the installation of SAP.
It was Tschaplinski notice the persistence of a mass spectral signature, the installation of SAP, shortly after the Arabidopsis plants was a bacterial pathogen. He acknowledged that the signal with the model of azelaic acid in a database, in the mass spectral signatures of metabolites Arabidopsis. This led to an investigation of young biological role of azelaic acid and AZI1 in plant immunity.
Professor Jane Glazebrook Lin Wang and his PhD at the Institute of Plant Biology at the University of Minnesota to work by considering the level of genes in response to azelaic acid.
Plant metabolites in SAP is a potentially important molecules in biology, said Tschaplinski. “A number of other new signatures are clearly identifiable and can continue, because part of the microbial flora scientific priority, if it is a path we choose to take.”
Scientists have discovered a natural, a plant that triggers the immune system, protects the plant from a secondary bacterial infection. The patent pending discovery could lead to an effective, efficient and environmentally friendly nature and the improvement of plants’ resistance against the disease, according to research published in the field of science, April 3 2009.
“The potential for plant protection products and biological processes to conventional agriculture is strong,” said John Greenberg, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago and corresponding author of the study. “This could lead to improved quality and improved yields higher.
“We’re very curious to see what is practiced in our laboratory could have that impact in the real world,” she added.
Although long known that the immune system of plants, how these systems work was the subject of study. Greenberg and his colleagues determined, a stage and to identify new links, in which the immune system in Arabidopsis, a plant which, in the same family as mustard, cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower.
If the pathogen Pseudomonas syringae attacks Arabidopsis, the system increases the production of azelaic acid, then the circuit of installing the system on other parts of the installation. Azelaic acid not induce large tusks, but give the plant capacity, faster and greater response from the defense, whether and when the installation of new attack.
This is done by the production of salicylic acid, known to promote resistance in certain plants. The researchers also found that azelaic acid stimulates the production of AZ11, a protein, researchers have discovered. AZ11 premium assistance to the development of plant immunity by the generation of additional salicylic acid.
Azelaic acid signal role in plant immunity is a significant discovery because it is profitable and already a natural in Arabidopsis, and many other plants, the researchers said. In addition, it is considered safe because it is already tested in humans. It is used in anti-microbial creams for hair loss and for treating Rosaz.
Azelaic acid first and only works in the immune system, researchers believe that their use is not a burden on the facility or otherwise, installation of affecting the health and productivity. It should therefore not azelaic acid plants to invest an amount of energy to the defense, to do so.
“Priming is an area of interest to many biologists,” said Greenberg. “It is human to the immune response and probably plays a role in many reactions to environmental changes.”
Azelaic acid is for the plants by spraying. “This is an interesting possibility for plant breeding, because the physical and non-genetic modification,” said Greenberg. “Arabidopsis is a model for the study of higher plants, and we found that azelaic acid is effective with other families of plants, as well.”
Azelaic acid has a great potential in agriculture, because it is “green”, safer than chemicals, and many plants, including wheat, rye and barley, according to Wade Williams, Chief project with the Office of Technology and Intellectual Property at the University of Chicago. “We have interest in this idea of the farm, but not much more now because of the difficult economic climate,” he says. “We hope that publication in a leading, peer review as a magazine of science is a renewed interest.”
The other authors of the Science paper entitled “Priming Plant Immunity systemic”, criticizes the role played in the research, said Greenberg. Ho-Won Jung, the author and a post-doctoral fellow in molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago, optimized for active method for the production of plants or plant waste SAP. Timothy Tschaplinski staff of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and analysis of metabolites in the installation of SAP.
It was Tschaplinski notice the persistence of a mass spectral signature, the installation of SAP, shortly after the Arabidopsis plants was a bacterial pathogen. He acknowledged that the signal with the model of azelaic acid in a database, in the mass spectral signatures of metabolites Arabidopsis. This led to an investigation of young biological role of azelaic acid and AZI1 in plant immunity.
Professor Jane Glazebrook Lin Wang and his PhD at the Institute of Plant Biology at the University of Minnesota to work by considering the level of genes in response to azelaic acid.
Plant metabolites in SAP is a potentially important molecules in biology, said Tschaplinski. “A number of other new signatures are clearly identifiable and can continue, because part of the microbial flora scientific priority, if it is a path we choose to take.”
