The laccase gene MdLac18 decouples the growth-defense trade-off by orchestrating lignification to enhance aphid resistance and biomass accumulation in Nicotiana benthamiana
as a rare genetic resource that, by exerting its stress-regulatory function and enhancing plant adaptability to adverse environments, holds the potential to decouple the growth-defense trade-off under controlled suboptimal conditions, thus providing a novel strategy for breeding crops with durable aphid resistance and superior agronomic performance.
Authors
- 陈方龙
- Ziwen Teng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2013-6365)
- Ying Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8030-7314)
- Fanghao Wan
- Shengjun Zhang
- Xuechao Zhang
- Mengxia Cui
- Jinyang Li
- Hongxu Zhou
- Yinjun Fan
Institutions
- Virginia Cooperative Extension (US)
- Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (CN)
- Kazakh Research Institute of Agriculture and Plant growing (KZ)
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CN)
- Innovation Team (China) (HK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Plant Science
- Published
- 2026-04-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2026.1799585
- Primary Topic
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China