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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 172, Issue 2, Pages 776-788Publisher
AMER SOC PLANT BIOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00735
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- United States Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) Bonn
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship program
- Swiss National Foundation Fellowship program
- United States Government
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The western corn rootworm (WCR; Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte) is a major pest of maize (Zea mays) that is well adapted to most crop management strategies. Breeding for tolerance is a promising alternative to combat WCR but is currently constrained by a lack of physiological understanding and phenotyping tools. We developed dynamic precision phenotyping approaches using C-11 with positron emission tomography, root autoradiography, and radiometabolite flux analysis to understand maize tolerance to WCR. Our results reveal that WCR attack induces specific patterns of lateral root growth that are associated with a shift in auxin biosynthesis from indole-3-pyruvic acid to indole-3-acetonitrile. WCR attack also increases transport of newly synthesized amino acids to the roots, including the accumulation of Gln. Finally, the regrowth zones of WCR-attacked roots show an increase in Gln turnover, which strongly correlates with the induction of indole-3-acetonitrile-dependent auxin biosynthesis. In summary, our findings identify local changes in the auxin biosynthesis flux network as a promising marker for induced WCR tolerance.
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