Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory

During the course of evolution, higher plants have developed efficient strategies to cope with herbivory from arthropods. Upon perception of herbivore-derived cues, the jasmonic acid (JA) signaling pathway is activated and triggers the expression of defense genes. The first land plants that arose ca...

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Autores: Schweizer, Fabian, Monte, Isabel, Solano, Roberto, Reymond, Philippe
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Helix aspersa
Marchantia polymorpha
Gastropod
Herbivory
Liverwort
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spelling Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail HerbivorySchweizer, FabianMonte, IsabelSolano, RobertoReymond, PhilippeHelix aspersaMarchantia polymorphaGastropodHerbivoryLiverwortDuring the course of evolution, higher plants have developed efficient strategies to cope with herbivory from arthropods. Upon perception of herbivore-derived cues, the jasmonic acid (JA) signaling pathway is activated and triggers the expression of defense genes. The first land plants that arose ca. 500 Mya were bryophytes, including liverworts, and fossil records indicate that they were also exposed to herbivore pressure. Interestingly, recent studies showed that the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha contains a functional JA pathway that protects against insect feeding. However, since the appearance of insects is estimated to have occurred several million years after that of bryophytes, we hypothesized that this pathway could have been used to fend off contemporaneous gastropod feeders. Here, we challenged M. polymorpha with the land snail Helix aspersa and found that neonates grew significantly bigger on Mpcoi1, a mutant in the JA pathway, than on wild-type plants. This finding demonstrates that JA-dependent defenses in a liverwort are effective against gastropod herbivory and suggests that this feeding group constitutes an additional selection pressure that may have arisen early during land plant evolution.This research was supported by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (310030_200372 to P.R. and P300PA_167774 to F.S.).Peer reviewedJohn Wiley & SonsSwiss National Science FoundationMonte, Isabel [0000-0002-7058-8343]Solano, Roberto [0000-0001-5459-2417]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202520252025info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/391888https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/105003226734reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)InglésPlant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.)application/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.70052Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3918882026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory
title Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory
spellingShingle Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory
Schweizer, Fabian
Helix aspersa
Marchantia polymorpha
Gastropod
Herbivory
Liverwort
title_short Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory
title_full Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory
title_fullStr Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory
title_full_unstemmed Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory
title_sort Marchantia polymorpha Defense Against Snail Herbivory
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Schweizer, Fabian
Monte, Isabel
Solano, Roberto
Reymond, Philippe
author Schweizer, Fabian
author_facet Schweizer, Fabian
Monte, Isabel
Solano, Roberto
Reymond, Philippe
author_role author
author2 Monte, Isabel
Solano, Roberto
Reymond, Philippe
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Swiss National Science Foundation
Monte, Isabel [0000-0002-7058-8343]
Solano, Roberto [0000-0001-5459-2417]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Helix aspersa
Marchantia polymorpha
Gastropod
Herbivory
Liverwort
topic Helix aspersa
Marchantia polymorpha
Gastropod
Herbivory
Liverwort
description During the course of evolution, higher plants have developed efficient strategies to cope with herbivory from arthropods. Upon perception of herbivore-derived cues, the jasmonic acid (JA) signaling pathway is activated and triggers the expression of defense genes. The first land plants that arose ca. 500 Mya were bryophytes, including liverworts, and fossil records indicate that they were also exposed to herbivore pressure. Interestingly, recent studies showed that the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha contains a functional JA pathway that protects against insect feeding. However, since the appearance of insects is estimated to have occurred several million years after that of bryophytes, we hypothesized that this pathway could have been used to fend off contemporaneous gastropod feeders. Here, we challenged M. polymorpha with the land snail Helix aspersa and found that neonates grew significantly bigger on Mpcoi1, a mutant in the JA pathway, than on wild-type plants. This finding demonstrates that JA-dependent defenses in a liverwort are effective against gastropod herbivory and suggests that this feeding group constitutes an additional selection pressure that may have arisen early during land plant evolution.
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