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Li ZG, Nie Q, Yang CL, Wang Y, Zhou ZH. Signaling molecule methylglyoxal ameliorates cadmium injury in wheat (Triticum aestivum L) by a coordinated induction of glutathione pool and glyoxalase system. ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 2018; 149:101-107. [PMID: 29154133 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.11.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Revised: 11/01/2017] [Accepted: 11/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Methylglyoxal (MG) now is found to be an emerging signaling molecule. It can relieve the toxicity of cadmium (Cd), however its alleviating mechanism still remains unknown. In this study, compared with the Cd-stressed seedlings without MG treatment, MG treatment could stimulate the activities of glutathione reductase (GR) and gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (γ-ECS) in Cd-stressed wheat seedlings, which in turn induced an increase of reduced glutathione (GSH). Adversely, the activated enzymes related to GSH biosynthesis and increased GSH were weakened by N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC, MG scavenger), 2,4-dihydroxy-benzylamine (DHBA) and 1,3-bischloroethyl-nitrosourea (BCNU, both are specific inhibitors of GR), buthionine sulfoximine (BSO, a specific inhibitors of GSH biosynthesis), and N-ethylmaleimide (NEM, GSH scavenger), respectively. In addition, MG increased the activities of glyoxalase I (Gly I) and glyoxalase II (Gly II) in Cd-treated seedlings, followed by declining an increase in endogenous MG as comparision to Cd-stressed seedlings alone. On the contrary, the increased glyoxalase activity and decreased endogenous MG level were reversed by NAC and specific inhibitors of Gly I (isoascorbate, IAS; squaric acid, SA). Furthermore, MG alleviated an increase in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and malondialdehyde (MDA) in Cd-treated wheat seedlings. These results indicated that MG could alleviate Cd toxicity and improve the growth of Cd-stressed wheat seedlings by a coordinated induction of glutathione pool and glyoxalase system.
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- Zhong-Guang Li
- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China; Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Kunming 650092, PR China; Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology, Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China; Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Kunming 650092, PR China; Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology, Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China; Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Kunming 650092, PR China; Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology, Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China; Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Kunming 650092, PR China; Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology, Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China; Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Kunming 650092, PR China; Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology, Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, PR China
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Zhang W, Wang J, Xu L, Wang A, Huang L, Du H, Qiu L, Oelmüller R. Drought stress responses in maize are diminished by Piriformospora indica. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2018; 13:e1414121. [PMID: 29219729 PMCID: PMC5790412 DOI: 10.1080/15592324.2017.1414121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Revised: 11/27/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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As an endophytic fungus of Sebacinales, Piriformospora indica promotes plant growth and resistance to abiotic stress, including drought. Colonization of maize roots promoted the leaf size, root length and number of tap roots. Under drought stress, the maize seedlings profited from the presence of the fungus and performed visibly better than the uncolonized controls. To identify genes and biological processes involved in growth promotion and drought tolerance conferred by P. indica, the root transcriptome of colonized and uncolonized seedlings was analyzed 0, 6 and 12 h after drought stress (20% polyethylene glycol 6000). The number of P. indica-responsive genes increased from 464 (no stress at 0 h) to 1337 (6 h drought) and 2037 (12 h drought). Gene Ontology analyses showed that the carbon and sulfur metabolisms are major targets of the fungus. Furthermore, the growth promoting effect of P. indica is reflected by higher transcript levels for microtubule associated processes. Under drought stress, the fungus improved the oxidative potential of the roots, and stimulated genes for hormone functions, including those which respond to abscisic acid, auxin, salicylic acid and cytokinins. The comparative analyses of our study provides systematic insight into the molecular mechanism how P. indica promotes plant performance under drought stress, and presents a collection of genes which are specifically targeted by the fungus under drought stress in maize roots.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptation, Physiological/drug effects
- Adaptation, Physiological/genetics
- Basidiomycota/drug effects
- Basidiomycota/growth & development
- Basidiomycota/physiology
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Droughts
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/drug effects
- Gene Ontology
- Genes, Plant
- Plant Growth Regulators/pharmacology
- Plant Roots/drug effects
- Plant Roots/genetics
- Plant Roots/microbiology
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Seedlings/drug effects
- Seedlings/growth & development
- Sequence Analysis, RNA
- Stress, Physiological/drug effects
- Stress, Physiological/genetics
- Zea mays/anatomy & histology
- Zea mays/drug effects
- Zea mays/microbiology
- Zea mays/physiology
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- Wenying Zhang
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry/ Research Center of Crop Stresses Resistance Technologies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
- CONTACT Wenying Zhang Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry/ Research Center of Crop Stresses Resistance Technologies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, Hubei, China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry/ Research Center of Crop Stresses Resistance Technologies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry/ Research Center of Crop Stresses Resistance Technologies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry/ Research Center of Crop Stresses Resistance Technologies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
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- Department of Computer Science, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry/ Research Center of Crop Stresses Resistance Technologies, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture/Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Jena, Freistaat Thüringen, Germany
- Ralf Oelmüller Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of General Botany and Plant Physiology, Jena Am Planetarium 1 D-07743, Freistaat Thüringen, Germany
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Chatterjee P, Biswas S, Biswas AK. Sodium Chloride Primed Seeds Modulate Glutathione Metabolism in Legume Cultivars under NaCl Stress. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.3923/ajpp.2018.8.22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Bothe H, Słomka A. Divergent biology of facultative heavy metal plants. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 219:45-61. [PMID: 29028613 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2017.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2017] [Revised: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Among heavy metal plants (the metallophytes), facultative species can live both in soils contaminated by an excess of heavy metals and in non-affected sites. In contrast, obligate metallophytes are restricted to polluted areas. Metallophytes offer a fascinating biology, due to the fact that species have developed different strategies to cope with the adverse conditions of heavy metal soils. The literature distinguishes between hyperaccumulating, accumulating, tolerant and excluding metallophytes, but the borderline between these categories is blurred. Due to the fact that heavy metal soils are dry, nutrient limited and are not uniform but have a patchy distribution in many instances, drought-tolerant or low nutrient demanding species are often regarded as metallophytes in the literature. In only a few cases, the concentrations of heavy metals in soils are so toxic that only a few specifically adapted plants, the genuine metallophytes, can cope with these adverse soil conditions. Current molecular biological studies focus on the genetically amenable and hyperaccumulating Arabidopsis halleri and Noccaea (Thlaspi) caerulescens of the Brassicaceae. Armeria maritima ssp. halleri utilizes glands for the excretion of heavy metals and is, therefore, a heavy metal excluder. The two endemic zinc violets of Western Europe, Viola lutea ssp. calaminaria of the Aachen-Liège area and Viola lutea ssp. westfalica of the Pb-Cu-ditch of Blankenrode, Eastern Westphalia, as well as Viola tricolor ecotypes of Eastern Europe, keep their cells free of excess heavy metals by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi which bind heavy metals. The Caryophyllaceae, Silene vulgaris f. humilis and Minuartia verna, apparently discard leaves when overloaded with heavy metals. All Central European metallophytes have close relatives that grow in areas outside of heavy metal soils, mainly in the Alps, and have, therefore, been considered as relicts of the glacial epoch in the past. However, the current literature favours the idea that hyperaccumulation of heavy metals serves plants as deterrent against attack by feeding animals (termed elemental defense hypothesis). The capability to hyperaccumulate heavy metals in A. halleri and N. caerulescens is achieved by duplications and alterations of the cis-regulatory properties of genes coding for heavy metal transporting/excreting proteins. Several metallophytes have developed ecotypes with a varying content of such heavy metal transporters as an adaption to the specific toxicity of a heavy metal site.
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- Hermann Bothe
- Botanical Institute, The University of Cologne, Zuelpicher Str. 47b, 50674 Cologne, Germany.
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- Department of Plant Cytology and Embryology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9 Str., 30-387 Cracow, Poland.
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Gill RA, Ali B, Yang S, Tong C, Islam F, Gill MB, Mwamba TM, Ali S, Mao B, Liu S, Zhou W. Reduced Glutathione Mediates Pheno-Ultrastructure, Kinome and Transportome in Chromium-Induced Brassica napus L. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2017; 8:2037. [PMID: 29312362 PMCID: PMC5732361 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.02037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Chromium (Cr) as a toxic metal is widely used for commercial purposes and its residues have become a potential environmental threat to both human and plant health. Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) is one of the candidate plants that can absorb the considerable quantity of toxic metals from the soil. Here, we used two cultivars of B. napus cvs. ZS 758 (metal-tolerant) and Zheda 622 (metal-susceptible) to investigate the phenological attributes, cell ultrastructure, protein kinases (PKs) and molecular transporters (MTs) under the combined treatments of Cr stress and reduced glutathione (GSH). Seeds of these cultivars were grown in vitro at different treatments i.e., 0, 400 μM Cr, and 400 μM Cr + 1 mM GSH in control growth chamber for 6 days. Results had confirmed that Cr significantly reduced the plant length, stem and root, and fresh biomass such as leaf, stem and root. Cr noticeably caused the damages in leaf mesophyll cells. Exogenous application of GSH significantly recovered both phenological and cell structural damages in two cultivars under Cr stress. For the PKs, transcriptomic data advocated that Cr stress alone significantly increased the gene expressions of BnaA08g16610D, BnaCnng19320D, and BnaA08g00390D over that seen in controls (Ck). These genes encoded both nucleic acid and transition metal ion binding proteins, and protein kinase activity (PKA) and phosphotransferase activities in both cultivars. Similarly, the presence of Cr revealed elite MT genes [BnaA04g26560D, BnaA02g28130D, and BnaA02g01980D (novel)] that were responsible for water transmembrane transporter activity. However, GSH in combination with Cr stress significantly up-regulated the genes for PKs [such as BnaCnng69940D (novel) and BnaC08g49360D] that were related to PKA, signal transduction, and oxidoreductase activities. For MTs, BnaC01g29930D and BnaA07g14320D were responsible for secondary active transmembrane transporter and protein transporter activities that were expressed more in GSH treatment than either Ck or Cr-treated cells. In general, it can be concluded that cultivar ZS 758 is more tolerant toward Cr-induced stress than Zheda 622.
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- Rafaqat A. Gill
- Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Crop Science and Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Weijun Zhou
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