Research on Plant Extracellular Vesicles
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 October 2022) | Viewed by 2557
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer-enclosed spheres that have been found in all types of living organisms. Based on their intracellular origin, specific marker proteins, biophysical properties, and biological functions, EVs can be classified into exosomes, microvesicles or shedding vesicles, and apoptotic cell-derived vesicles. They can deliver different molecules, such as proteins, small RNAs, and lipids, between interacting parties. Plant EVs have been observed since the 1960s, although they were not thoroughly studied until recently. Emerging evidence has shown that EVs play a prominent role in plant–microbe interactions by safely transporting functional molecules. For example, Arabidopsis plants can use plant EVs to deliver small RNAs into the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea to suppress fungal virulence. EVs were also observed in the rice periarbuscular space after inoculation with the symbiotic arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Rhizophagus irregularis and Gigaspora rosea. This Special Issue will focus on research on plant extracellular vesicles. We welcome novel research, reviews, and opinion pieces covering all related topics. We hope to collect papers covering more different plant species-derived EV studies under various biotic and abiotic conditions.
Dr. Baoye He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- extracellular vesicles
- exosomes
- plant immunity
- cell-to-cell communication
- small RNA
- biotic stress
- abiotic stress
