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Zia A, Gulzar S, Edwards GE. Differential modulation of photosystem II photochemical efficiency in six C 4 xero-halophytes. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2024; 51:FP24060. [PMID: 39365896 DOI: 10.1071/fp24060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 09/18/2024] [Indexed: 10/06/2024]
Abstract
Xero-halophytes are the salt-tolerant plants of dry habitats that adapt efficient strategies to endure extreme salt and water fluctuations. This study elucidated the adaptations related to PSII photochemistry, photoprotection, and photoinhibition in six C4 xero-halophytes (Atriplex stocksii , Haloxylon stocksii , Salsola imbricata, Suaeda fruticosa, Desmostachya bipinnata , and Saccharum griffithii ) grown in their native habitats. Chlorophyll a fluorescence quenching measurements suggested that S. imbricata and H. stocksii maintained efficient PSII photochemistry by downregulating heat dissipation and keeping a high fraction of open PSII centres that indicates plastoquinone (PQ) pool oxidation. Fluorescence induction kinetics revealed that S. imbricata demonstrated the highest performance index of PSII excitation to the reduction of end electron acceptors. S. fruticosa sustained photochemical efficiency through enhanced dissipation of excess energy and a low fraction of open PSII centres, indicating PQ reduced state. The large light-harvesting antenna size, deduced from the chlorophyll a /b ratio in S. fruticosa apparently led to the superior performance index of PSII excitation to the reduction of intersystem electron carriers. A. stocksii retained more open PSII centres with responsive non-photochemical quenching to safely dissipate excess energy. Despite maintaining the highest pigment contents and stoichiometry, A. stocksii remained lowest in both performance indices. The grass species D. bipinnata and S. griffithii kept fewer PSII centres open during photoinhibition, as evidenced by downregulation of PSII operating efficiency. The results provide insights into the differential modulation of PSII photochemical efficiency through dynamic control of photoprotective energy dissipation, PQ pool redox states, and photoinhibitory shutdown in these xero-halophytes.
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- Ahmad Zia
- Department of Biology, University of Hafr Al-Batin, Hafr Al-Batin 31991, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilization, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4236, USA
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Sarkar B, Das A, Pal S, Kundu A, Hasanuzzaman M, Fujita M, Adak MK. Regulation of NADP-Malic Enzyme Activity in Maize ( Zea mays L.) under Salinity with Reference to Light and Darkness. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:plants12091836. [PMID: 37176895 PMCID: PMC10181391 DOI: 10.3390/plants12091836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2023] [Revised: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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We revealed the functional characterization of C4-NADP-malic enzyme (NADP-ME), extracted and partially purified from maize (Zea mays L. cv. Kaveri 50). The leaf discs were previously activated under 1000-1200 µE m-2 s-1, incubated in bicarbonate (2.0 mM) solution, and subjected to salt stress (100 mM NaCl). Initially, salt stress was evident from the accumulations of proline, chlorophyll content, carbohydrate profile, and Hill activity influencing the C4 enzyme. Primarily, in illuminated tissues, the activity of the enzyme recorded a reduced trend through salinity irrespective of light and darkness compared to the control. On illumination, the kinetic parameters such as Vmax of the enzyme increased by 1.36-fold compared to in the dark under salinity whereas Km was decreased by 20% under the same condition. The extent of light induction was proportionate to limiting (0.01 mM) and saturated (4.0 mM) malate concentrations for enzyme activity. Moreover, the catalytic properties of the enzyme were also tested on concomitant responses to activator (citrate and succinate) and inhibitor (oxalate and pyruvate) residues. The sensitivity to light and dark effects was also tested for reducing agents such as dithiothreitol, suggesting the effect of the changes in redox on the regulatory properties of the enzyme. The ratio of enzyme activity under light and darkness in the presence or absence of a reducing agent was concomitantly increased with varying malate concentrations. At the molecular level, protein polymorphism of the enzyme represented minor variations in band intensities, however, not in numbers through salinity subjected to light and darkness. Therefore, salinity-induced changes in the decarboxylation reaction, evident by NADP-ME activity, may be based on the redox property of regulatory sites and sensitivity to light and darkness.
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- Bipul Sarkar
- Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology Research Unit, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India
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- Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology Research Unit, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India
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- Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology Research Unit, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India
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- Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology Research Unit, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kita-Gun, Kagawa, Miki-cho 761-0795, Japan
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- Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology Research Unit, Department of Botany, University of Kalyani, Kalyani 741235, West Bengal, India
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Vargas-Ortiz E, Ramírez-Tobias HM, González-Escobar JL, Gutiérrez-García AK, Bojórquez-Velázquez E, Espitia-Rangel E, Barba de la Rosa AP. Biomass, chlorophyll fluorescence, and osmoregulation traits let differentiation of wild and cultivated Amaranthus under water stress. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2021; 220:112210. [PMID: 34000487 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2021.112210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 05/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Amaranths are recognized by their high nutritive value and their natural tolerance to environmental stresses. In this study, physiological differences in response to water stress were compared between A. hybridus, a wild species considered as weed, and A. hypochondriacus, the most cultivated species for grain production, under the hypothesis that wild species have better adaptation to stress. In both species, photosynthetic parameters, pigments, and gene expression of selected genes were assessed. Biomass, effective quantum efficiency (ΦPSII), photochemical quenching (qP), and electron transport rate (ETR) values were reduced only in A. hybridus due to water deficit. Drought stress promoted proline accumulation by twice in A. hybridus but until three times in A. hypochondriacus. In both species, drought stress reduced net assimilation rate (A), transpiration rate (E), stomatal conductance (gs), and the expression of phosphoenol pyruvate carboxylase (PEPC). While, maximum quantum efficiency (Fv/Fm), chlorophyll, betacyanins, and the expression of ribulose1-5, bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit (LSU) did not change when plants were subjected to water stress. Likewise, both species accumulated total phenolic compounds and Oxalyl-CoA gene was up-regulated in response to drought. Our results have shown that A. hypochondriacus, the cultivated species, exhibited better tolerance to drought than A. hybridus, the wild species, probably due to an unconsciously selected trait during the domestication process.
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- Erandi Vargas-Ortiz
- IPICYT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C Camino a La Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a sección, San Luis Potosí, SLP 78216, Mexico.
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- IPICYT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C Camino a La Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a sección, San Luis Potosí, SLP 78216, Mexico.
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- IPICYT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C Camino a La Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a sección, San Luis Potosí, SLP 78216, Mexico.
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- IPICYT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C Camino a La Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a sección, San Luis Potosí, SLP 78216, Mexico.
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- Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y Pecuarias, 56250 Texcoco, Estado de México, Mexico.
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- IPICYT, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica A.C Camino a La Presa San José No. 2055, Lomas 4a sección, San Luis Potosí, SLP 78216, Mexico.
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Aliyeva NK, Aliyeva DR, Suleymanov SY, Rzayev FH, Gasimov EK, Huseynova IM. Biochemical properties and ultrastructure of mesophyll and bundle sheath thylakoids from maize (Zea mays) chloroplasts. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2020; 47:970-976. [PMID: 32574552 DOI: 10.1071/fp20004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A characteristic feature of C4 plants is the differentiation of the photosynthetic leaf tissues into two distinct cell types: mesophyll (M) and bundle sheath (BS) cells. We have investigated several biochemical parameters, including pigment composition, polypeptide patterns, fluorescence at 77K, the activity of photosystems and ultrastructure of mesophyll and bundle sheath chloroplasts of maize (Zea mays L.) plants. It is shown that the BS chloroplasts have ~2-fold higher chlorophyll a/b ratio than M chloroplasts, 6.15 and 3.12 respectively. The PSI apoprotein (68 kDa) was more abundant in BS than in M thylakoids. Polypeptides belonging to PSII core antenna, are in similar amounts in both types of membranes, but the 45kDa band is more intensive in M thylakoids. Polypeptides in the region of 28-24 kDa of the light-harvesting complex of PSII (LHCII) are also present in both types of chloroplasts, though their amounts are reduced in BS thylakoids. The chlorophyll fluorescence emission spectra in M cells showed the presence of three bands at 686, 695 and 735 nm characteristics of LHCII, PSII core and PSI complexes, respectively. However, in the fluorescence spectrum of agranal plastids, there are almost traces of the band at 695 nm, which belongs to the PSII core complex. The research results revealed that the photochemical activity of PSII in BS chloroplasts is ~5 times less than in the chloroplasts of M cells. The highest PSI activity was found in maize BS chloroplasts.
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- Nahida K Aliyeva
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, 11 Izzat Nabiyev Str, Baku AZ1073, Azerbaijan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, 11 Izzat Nabiyev Str, Baku AZ1073, Azerbaijan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, 11 Izzat Nabiyev Str, Baku AZ1073, Azerbaijan
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- Laboratory of Electron Microscopy of the SRC of Azerbaijan Medical University, 163 A Samad Vurgun, Baku AZ1078, Azerbaijan
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- Department of Histology, Embryology and Cytology, Azerbaijan Medical University, 163 A Samad Vurgun, Baku AZ1078, Azerbaijan
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, 11 Izzat Nabiyev Str, Baku AZ1073, Azerbaijan; and Corresponding author.
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Guidi L, Lo Piccolo E, Landi M. Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Photoinhibition and Abiotic Stress: Does it Make Any Difference the Fact to Be a C3 or C4 Species? FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:174. [PMID: 30838014 PMCID: PMC6382737 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Chlorophyll fluorescence analysis is one of the most powerful and widely used techniques to study the effect of stresses on the photosynthetic process. From the first utilization, the F v/F m ratio has been largely used as a sensitive indicator of plant photosynthetic performance. Decreases of this index are indicative of the reduction of photosystem II (PSII) efficiency, namely photoinhibition. In the last 20 years, application of chlorophyll fluorescence has been largely improved, and many other informative parameters have been established to detect PSII photochemical efficiency and the partitioning of light energy to alternative dissipative mechanisms (qE, energy-dependent quenching; qZ, zeaxanthin-dependent quenching and qI, photoinhibitory quenching; qH, sustained photoprotective antenna quenching; qM, quenching dependent to chloroplast movement; qT, light harvesting complexes II-I state-transition) such as the recently developed "photoprotective power" of non-photochemical quenching (pNPQ). This review reports a brief description of the main chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and a wide analysis of the current bibliography on the use of different parameters which are useful to detect events of PSII photoinhibition. In addition, in view of the inherent differences in morpho-anatomical, physiological and biochemical features between C3 and C4 metabolism, possible differences in terms of photoinhibition between C3 and C4 plant species under stress conditions are proposed. The attempt is to highlight the limits of their comparison in terms of susceptibility to photoinhibition and to propose direction of future research which, assisted by chlorophyll fluorescence, should improve the knowledge of the different sensitivity of C3 and C4 to abiotic stressors.
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- Lucia Guidi
- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- Center for Climate Change Impacts, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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de Freitas-Silva L, Rodríguez-Ruiz M, Houmani H, da Silva LC, Palma JM, Corpas FJ. Glyphosate-induced oxidative stress in Arabidopsis thaliana affecting peroxisomal metabolism and triggers activity in the oxidative phase of the pentose phosphate pathway (OxPPP) involved in NADPH generation. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2017; 218:196-205. [PMID: 28888161 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2017.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2017] [Revised: 06/27/2017] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used worldwide. In susceptible plants, glyphosate affects the shikimate pathway and reduces aromatic amino acid synthesis. Using Arabidopsis seedlings grown in the presence of 20μM glyphosate, we analyzed H2O2, ascorbate, glutathione (GSH) and protein oxidation content as well as antioxidant catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and ascorbate-glutathione cycle enzyme activity. We also examined the principal NADPH-generating system components, including glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGDH), NADP-malic enzyme (NADP-ME) and NADP-isocitrate dehydrogenase (NADP-ICDH). Glyphosate caused a drastic reduction in growth parameters and an increase in protein oxidation. The herbicide also resulted in an overall increase in GSH content, antioxidant enzyme activity (catalase and all enzymatic components of the ascorbate-glutathione cycle) in addition to the two oxidative phase enzymes, G6PDH and 6PGDH, in the pentose phosphate pathway involved in NADPH generation. In this study, we provide new evidence on the participation of G6PDH and 6PGDH in the response to oxidative stress induced by glyphosate in Arabidopsis, in which peroxisomal enzymes, such as catalase and glycolate oxidase, are positively affected. We suggest that the NADPH provided by the oxidative phase of the pentose phosphate pathway (OxPPP) should serve to maintain glutathione reductase (GR) activity, thus preserving and regenerating the intracellular GSH pool under glyphosate-induced stress. It is particularly remarkable that the 6PGDH activity was unaffected by pro-oxidant and nitrating molecules such as H202, nitric oxide or peroxynitrite.
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- Larisse de Freitas-Silva
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Celular y Molecular de Plantas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain; Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900 Viçosa, MG, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Celular y Molecular de Plantas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Celular y Molecular de Plantas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Celular y Molecular de Plantas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Celular y Molecular de Plantas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Granada, Spain.
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