Exploring the Roles of Aquaporins in Plant-Microbe Interactions

Ruirui Wang, Min Wang, Kehao Chen, Shiyu Wang, Luis Mur, Shiwei Guo

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Abstract

Aquaporins (AQPs) are membrane channel proteins regulating the flux of water and other various small solutes across membranes. Significant progress has been made in understanding the roles of AQPs in plants’ physiological processes, and now their activities in various plant–microbe interactions are receiving more attention. This review summarizes the various roles of different AQPs during interactions with microbes which have positive and negative consequences on the host plants. In positive plant–microbe interactions involving rhizobia, arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM), and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), AQPs play important roles in nitrogen fixation, nutrient transport, improving water status, and increasing abiotic stress tolerance. For negative interactions resulting in pathogenesis, AQPs help plants resist infections by preventing pathogen ingress by influencing stomata opening and influencing defensive signaling pathways, especially through regulating systemic acquired resistance. Interactions with bacterial or viral pathogens can be directly perturbed through direct interaction of AQPs with harpins or replicase. However, whilst these observations indicate the importance of AQPs, further work is needed to develop a fuller mechanistic understanding of their functions
Original languageEnglish
Article number267
JournalCells
Volume7
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2018

Keywords

  • Aquaporins
  • Plant-microbe interaction
  • Signaling
  • Solute transport
  • Water homeostasis

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