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Dr Estrella Luna-Diez@ELunaDiez
lunas-research.com
Priming Trees For Self-DefenceBIFoR Annual Conference
30th January, 2019
Food and Environment Research Agency, via Wikimedia Commons
Career in Plant Pathology
Plant Pathology
Timeline
2006 2008
BEng and MEng in Agronomy
2012
PhD in Biological Sciences
2015
PDRA
2016
Research Fellow
2017
Future Leader Fellow
Lectureship
Phytophthorainfestans
Botrytis cinerea
Panama disease
Fusarium oxysporum
Filamentous pathogens
Late blight
Grey mould
Hymenoscyphus fraxineus
Ash Dieback
Phytophthora ramorum
Sudden Oak Death
Between 10-23% of global agricultural loss
can be attributed to fungi and oomycetes Powdery mildew
Erysiphe alphitoides
Food and Environment Research Agency, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service via Wikimedia Commons
Liberato et al 2006, via Wikimedia Commons
The Plant Immune System: A Powerful Control Strategy
Plants defend themselves extraordinarily
Constitutive barriers
Antimicrobial compounds
Cell wall defence
Hormones
ROS
SA
JA
Innate immunityPriming of defence
Priming of defence
Plants defend themselves extraordinarily
de
fen
ce
in
ten
sit
y
time
priming
primed
un-primed
attack
PRIMING: “An increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience”
Stimuli of priming
Plants defend themselves extraordinarily
de
fen
ce
in
ten
sit
y
time
priming
primed
un-primed
attack
PRIMING: “An increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience”
Chemicals
Root microbes
Pathogens
volatiles
Botrytis cinerea
How durable is defence priming?
time
Primed
priming
un-primed
attackd
efe
nc
e i
nte
ns
ity
MAINTENANCE
Weeks after treatment
5 weeks 6 weeks
Luna et al (2014) Frontiers in Plant Science
Bruce et al (2017) Crop Protection
Hyaloperonosporaarabidopsidis
Luna et al (2016) Plant Disease
Botrytis cinerea
12 weeks
Wilkinson et al (2018) Plant Pathology
Luna et al (2014), Nature Chemical Biology
T0
How durable is defence priming?
time
Primed
priming
un-primed
attackd
efe
nc
e i
nte
ns
ity
MAINTENANCE
Next generation
Pseudomonassyringae
Epigenetic mechanisms
Luna et al & Slaughter et al (2012), Plant Physiology, Luna and Ton (2012) Plant Signalling and Behaviour, Stassen et al (2018) Scientific Reports
Priming in forest trees
Can trees be primed?
What are the mechanisms?
Is the resistance maintained for long periods of time?
Epigenetics?
Transgenerational resistance?
Is there genetic variability?
Neighbouring effects?
How does CO2 impact priming?
Hormones,cell-wall defence?
New ones?
Tolerance?
“Thinking Higher”
International symposium in Forest Pathology:
Towards biosecurity of forest trees
Confirmedspeakers:
- Prof Dawn Arnold- Prof Sarah Gurr
- Prof Sandra Denman- Prof Luis Sampedro - Dr Alejandro Solla- Dr Victoria Pastor
11th July, 2019Edgbaston Campus
University of Birmingham
Dr Estrella Luna-Diez@ELunaDiez
lunas-research.com
Priming Trees For Self-DefenceBIFoR Annual Conference
30th January, 2019
Food and Environment Research Agency, via Wikimedia Commons