TY - JOUR ID - 2370 TI - Jasmonic acid: biosynthesis, signal transduction, gene expression JO - Fett/Lipid PY - 1998 SP - 139-146 AU - Wasternack, C. AU - Miersch, O. AU - Kramell, R. AU - Hause, B. AU - Ward, J. AU - Beale, M. AU - Boland, W. AU - Parthier, B. AU - Feussner, I. AU - VL - 100 UR - DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4133(19985)100:4/5<139::AID-LIPI139>3.0.CO;2-5 AB - Jasmonic acid (JA) is an ubiquitously occurring plant growth regulator which functions as a signal of developmentally or environmentally regulated expression of various genes thereby contributing to the defense status of plants [1–5]. The formation of jasmonates in a lipid‐based signalling pathway via octadecanoids seems to be a common principle for many plant species to express wound‐ and stressinduced genes [4, 5].There are various octadecanoid‐derived signals [3]. Among them, jasmonic acid and its amino acid conjugates are most active in barley, supporting arguments that β‐oxidation is an essential step in lipid‐based JA mediated responses. Furthermore, among derivatives of 12‐oxophytodienoic acid (PDA) carrying varying length of the carboxylic acid side‐chain, only those with a straight number of carbon atoms are able to induce JA responsive genes in barley leaves after treatment with these compounds. Barley leaves stressed by treatment with sorbitol solutions exhibit mainly an endogenous rise of JA and JA amino acid conjugates suggesting that both of them are stress signals. Data on organ‐ and tissue‐specific JA‐responsive gene expression will be presented and discussed in terms of “JA as a master switch” among various lipid‐derived signals. A2 - C1 - Molecular Signal Processing; Cell and Metabolic Biology ER -