^{Department of Plant Pathology} _{Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory}

Tanaka Lab – Publications

2023

Basu S, Moroz N, Lee BW, Tanaka K, Oeller L, Baerlocher C, Crowder DW (2023) Diversity and traits of multiple biotic stressors elicit differential defense responses in legumes. Agriculture 13: 2093
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13112093

Kamal H, Lynch-Holm V, Pappu HR, Tanaka K (2023) Starch plays a key role in sporosorus formation by the powdery scab pathogen Spongospora subterranea. Phytopathology (in press)
https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-07-23-0224-R

Sowders JM, Jewell JB, Tripathi D, Tanaka K (2023) The intrinsically disordered C-terminus of purinoceptor P2K1 fine-tunes plant responses to extracellular ATP. FEBS Letters 597: 2059-2071
https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14703

Sowders JM, Tanaka K (2023) A histochemical reporter system to study extracellular ATP response in plants. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 14: 1183335 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1183335

Tanaka K, Mattupalli C (2023) Nano tools for managing plant diseases. WSU CSANR Blog. May 30, 2023
https://doi.org/10.7273/b3rq-6v30

Tanaka K, Mudgil Y, Tunc-Ozdemir M (2023) Editorial: Abiotic stress and plant immunity – a challenge in climate change. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 14: 1197435
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1197435

Masudulla K, Tanaka K (2023) Purpureocillium lilacinum for plant growth promotion and biocontrol against root-knot nematodes infecting eggplant. PLoS One 18: e0283550
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283550

Braley LE, Jewell JB, Figueroa J, Humann JL, Main D, Mora-Romero GA, Moroz N, Woodhall JW, White RA III, Tanaka K (2023) Nanopore sequencing with GraphMap for comprehensive pathogen detection in potato field soil. Plant Disease 107: 2288-2295
https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-01-23-0052-SR

2022

Jewell JB, Berim A, Tripathi D, Gleason C, Olaya C, Pappu HR, Gang DR, Tanaka K (2022) Activation of indolic glucosinolate pathway by extracellular ATP in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 190: 1574-1578
https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac393

Tanaka K, DeShields JB, Moroz N, Woodhall JW (2022) Isothermal amplification for potato disease diagnosis: what have we learned from detection of the powdery scab pathogen? Potato Progress 22 (4)
https://doi.org/10.7273/000004646

Wei W, Xu L, Peng H, Zhu W, Tanaka K, Cheng J, Sanguinet KA, Vandemark G, Chen W (2022) A novel fungal extracellular effector inactivates plant polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein. Nature Communications 13: 2213
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29788-2

Mora-Romero GA, Félix-Gastélum R, Bomberger RA, Romero-Urías C, Tanaka K (2022) Common potato disease symptoms: ambiguity of symptom-based identification of causal pathogens and value of on-site molecular diagnostics. Journal of General Plant Pathology 88: 89-104
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-021-01045-2

Yuan P, Tanaka K, Poovaiah BW (2022) Calcium/Calmodulin-mediated defense signaling: what is looming on the horizon for AtSR1/CAMTA3-mediated signaling in plant immunity. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 12: 795353
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.795353

Marcec MJ, Tanaka K (2022) Crosstalk between calcium and ROS signaling during flg22-triggered immune response in Arabidopsis leaves. Plants 11: 14
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11010014

2021

Yuan P, Tanaka K, Poovaiah BW (2021) Calmodulin-binding transcription activator AtSR1/CAMTA3 fine-tunes plant immune response by transcriptional regulation of the salicylate receptor NPR1. Plant, Cell & Environment 44: 3140-3154
https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14123

Tanaka K, Heil M (2021) Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) in plant innate immunity: applying the danger model and evolutionary perspectives. Annual Review of Phytopathology 59: 53-75
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-phyto-082718-100146

Combest MM, Moroz N, Tanaka K, Rogan CJ, Anderson JC, Thura L, Rakotondrafara AM, Goyer A (2021) StPIP1, a PAMP-induced peptide in potato, elicits plant defenses and is associated with disease symptom severity in a compatible interaction with potato virus Y. Journal of Experimental Botany 72: 4472-4488
https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab078

2020

Yuan P, Jewell JB, Behera S, Tanaka K, Poovaiah BW (2020) Distinct molecular pattern-induced calcium signatures lead to different downstream transcriptional regulations via AtSR1/CAMTA3. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21: 8163
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21218163

Kumar S, Tripathi D, Okubara PA, Tanaka K (2020) Purinoceptor P2K1/DORN1 enhances plant resistance against a soilborne fungal pathogen, Rhizoctonia solani. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 572920
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.572920

Moroz N, Tanaka K (2020) FlgII-28 is a major flagellin-derived defense elicitor for potato. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 33: 247-255
https://doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-06-19-0164-R

2019

DeShields JB, Moroz N, Braley LE, Mora-Romero GA, Tanaka K (2019) Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) for the rapid isothermal detection of Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea and potato mop-top virus. American Journal of Potato Research 96: 617-624
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12230-019-09750-7

Jewell, JB, Tanaka K (2019) Transcriptomic perspective on extracellular ATP signaling: a few curious trifles. Plant Signaling & Behavior 14: e1659079
https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2019.1659079

Marcec MJ, Gilroy S, Poovaiah BW, Tanaka K (2019) Mutual interplay of Ca²⁺ and ROS signaling in plant immune response. Plant Science 283: 343-354
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.03.004

Ramachandran SR, Kumar S, Tanaka K (2019) Quantification of extracellular ATP in plant suspension cell cultures. Methods in Molecular Biology 1991: 43-54
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9458-8_5

Jewell JB, Sowders JM, He R, Willis MA, Gang DR, Tanaka K (2019) Extracellular ATP shapes a defense-related transcriptome both independently and along with other defense signaling pathways. Plant Physiology 179: 1144-1158
https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.01301

2018

Hadwiger LA, Tanaka K (2018) DNA damage and chromatin conformation changes confer nonhost resistance: a hypothesis based on effects of anti-cancer agents on plant defense responses. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: 1056
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01056

Yuan P, Tanaka K, Du L, Poovaiah BW (2018) Calcium signaling in plant autoimmunity: a guard model for AtSR1/CAMTA3-mediated immune response. Molecular Plant 11: 637-639
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2018.02.014

DeShields JB, Bomberger RA, Woodhall JW, Wheeler DL, Moroz N, Johnson DA, Tanaka K (2018) On-site molecular detection of soil-borne phytopathogens using a portable real-time PCR system. Journal of Visualized Experiments e56891
https://doi.org/10.3791/56891

Tripathi D, Tanaka K (2018) A crosstalk between extracellular ATP and JA signaling pathways. Plant Signaling & Behavior 13: e1432229
https://doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2018.1432229

Tripathi D, Zhang T, Koo AJ, Stacey G, Tanaka K (2018) Extracellular ATP acts on jasmonate signaling to reinforce plant defense. Plant Physiology 176: 511-523
https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.01477

2017

Moroz N, Huffaker A, Tanaka K (2017) Extracellular alkalinization assay for detection of early defense response. Current Protocols in Plant Biology 2: 210-220
https://doi.org/10.1002/cppb.20057

Yuan P, Jauregui E, Du L, Tanaka K, Poovaiah BW (2017) Calcium signatures and signaling events orchestrate plant-microbe interactions. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 38: 173-183
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2017.06.003

Hadwiger LA, Tanaka K (2017) A Simple and rapid assay for measuring phytoalexin pisatin, an indicator of plant defense response in Pea (Pisum sativum L.). Bio-protocol 7: e2362
https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.2362

Hadwiger LA, Tanaka K (2017) Nonhost resistance: DNA damage is associated with SA signaling for induction of PR genes and contributes to the growth suppression of a pea pathogen on pea endocarp tissue. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 446
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00446

Tanaka K, Hadwiger LA (2017) Nonhost resistance: reactive oxygen species (ROS) signal causes DNA damage prior to the induction of PR genes and disease resistance in pea tissue. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 98: 18-24
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmpp.2017.01.007

Moroz N, Fritch KR, Marcec MJ, Tripathi D, Smertenko A, Tanaka K (2017) Extracellular alkalinization as a defense response in potato cells. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 32
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00032

Ramachandran SR, Yin C, Kud J, Tanaka K, Mahoney AK, Xiao F, Hulbert SH (2017) Effectors from wheat rust fungi suppress multiple plant defense responses. Phytopathology 107: 75-83
https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-02-16-0083-R

2014 – 2016

Nguyen CT, Tanaka K, Cao Y, Cho S-H, Xu D, Stacey G (2016) Computational Analysis of the ligand Binding Site of the Extracellular ATP Receptor, DORN1. PLoS One 11: e0161894
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161894

Hadwiger LA, Tanaka K (2015) EDTA a novel inducer of pisatin, a phytoalexin indicator of the non-host resistance in peas. Molecules 20: 24-34
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules20010024

Tanaka K, Choi J, Cao Y, Stacey G (2014) Extracellular ATP acts as a damage associated molecular pattern (DAMP) signal in plants. Frontiers in Plant Science 5: 466
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2014.00446