Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Identification of a tomato UDP-arabinosyltransferase for airborne volatile reception

  • Koichi Sugimoto,
  • Eiichiro Ono,
  • Tamaki Inaba,
  • Takehiko Tsukahara,
  • Kenji Matsui,
  • Manabu Horikawa,
  • Hiromi Toyonaga,
  • Kohki Fujikawa,
  • Tsukiho Osawa,
  • Shunichi Homma,
  • Yoshikazu Kiriiwa,
  • Ippei Ohmura,
  • Atsushi Miyagawa,
  • Hatsuo Yamamura,
  • Mikio Fujii,
  • Rika Ozawa,
  • Bunta Watanabe,
  • Kenji Miura,
  • Hiroshi Ezura,
  • Toshiyuki Ohnishi,
  • Junji Takabayashi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36381-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Volatiles from herbivore-infested plants can function as chemical warning signals to neighbouring plants. Here the authors show that a tomato UDP-glycosyltransferase can convert a volatile signal emitted by infested plants to promote plant defense.