Hannes Lefevere
Lander Bauters
Godelieve GheysenA Correction on
Salicylic acid biosynthesis in plants
By Lefevere H, Bauters L and Gheysen G (2020). Front. Plant Sci. 11:338. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00338
There was a mistake in Figure 1 as published. Some chemical formulas were not correct. The corrected Figure 1 appears below.
Figure 1. Possible biosynthesis routes for SA in plants. Full lines are conversion steps, dotted lines are transport from chloroplast to cytosol, the dashed line is an alternative, unknown biosynthesis route. The question mark indicates an unidentified protein. It is unclear whether the steps leading up to phenylalanine are performed in the chloroplast or cytosol, or in both simultaneously, as there are chloroplastic and cytosolic CMs. Proteins are indicated in blue and are abbreviated as follows: the enzymes ICS, isochorismate synthase; CM, chorismate mutase; PAL, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase; AIM1,abnormal inflorescence meristem1; BA2H, benzoic acid 2-hydroxylase; PBS3, avrPphB SUSCEPTIBLE3; EPS1, ENHANCED PSEUDOMONAS SUSCEPTIBILITY 1 and the transporter EDS5, ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY 5. In Arabidopsis, sid1 mutants are loss-of-function eds5 mutants, while sid2 mutants are loss-of-function ics1 mutants.
The original version of this article has been updated.
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Keywords: salicylic acid biosynthesis, isochorismate synthase, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, plant defense, pathogen infection
Citation: Lefevere H, Bauters L and Gheysen G (2025) Correction: Salicylic acid biosynthesis in plants. Front. Plant Sci. 16:1697849. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1697849
Received: 02 September 2025; Accepted: 24 September 2025;
Published: 06 October 2025.
Edited and reviewed by:
Laigeng Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), ChinaCopyright © 2025 Lefevere, Bauters and Gheysen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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