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Zhang Q, Dai B, Fan M, Yang L, Li C, Hou G, Wang X, Gao H, Li J. Genome-wide profile analysis of the Hsp20 family in lettuce and identification of its response to drought stress. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2024; 15:1426719. [PMID: 39070912 PMCID: PMC11272627 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1426719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2024] [Accepted: 06/24/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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Heat shock protein 20 (Hsp20) plays a very important role in response to abiotic stressors such as drought; however, in lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), this gene family is poorly understood. This study used bioinformatics methods to identify 36 members of the lettuce Hsp20 family, which were named LsHsp20-1~LsHsp20-36. Subcellular localization results revealed that 26 members of the LsHsp20 protein family localized to the cytoplasm and nucleus. Additionally, 15 conserved domains were identified in the LsHsp20 protein family, with the number of amino acids ranging from 8 to 50. Gene structure analysis revealed that 15 genes (41.7%) had no introns, and 20 genes (55.5%) had one intron. The proportion of the LsHsp20 secondary structure was random coil > alpha helix > extended strand > beta turn. Chromosome positioning analysis indicated that 36 genes were unevenly distributed on nine chromosomes, and four pairs of genes were collinear. The Ka/Ks ratio of the collinear genes was less than 1, indicating that purifying selection dominated during L. sativa evolution. Thirteen pairs of genes were collinear in lettuce and Arabidopsis, and 14 pairs of genes were collinear in lettuce and tomato. A total of 36 LsHsp20 proteins were divided into 12 subgroups based on phylogenetic analysis. Three types of cis-acting elements, namely, abiotic and biotic stress-responsive, plant hormone-responsive, and plant development-related elements, were identified in the lettuce LsHsp20 family. qRT-PCR was used to analyze the expression levels of 23 LsHsp20 genes that were significantly upregulated on the 7th or 14th day of drought treatment, and the expression levels of two genes (LsHsp20-12 and LsHsp20-26) were significantly increased by 153-fold and 273-fold on the 14th and 7th days of drought treatment, respectively. The results of this study provide comprehensive information for research on the LsHsp20 gene family in lettuce and lay a solid foundation for further elucidation of Hsp20 biological functions, providing valuable information on the regulatory mechanisms of the LsHsp20 family in lettuce drought resistance.
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- Qinqin Zhang
- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- Key Laboratory of North China Water-saving Irrigation Engineering, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- Ministry of Education of China-Hebei Province Joint Innovation Center for Efficient Green Vegetable Industry, Baoding, China
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- Key Laboratory of North China Water-saving Irrigation Engineering, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
- Ministry of Education of China-Hebei Province Joint Innovation Center for Efficient Green Vegetable Industry, Baoding, China
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Yan W, Sharif R, Sohail H, Zhu Y, Chen X, Xu X. Surviving a Double-Edged Sword: Response of Horticultural Crops to Multiple Abiotic Stressors. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:5199. [PMID: 38791235 PMCID: PMC11121501 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25105199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2024] [Revised: 05/04/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024] Open
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Climate change-induced weather events, such as extreme temperatures, prolonged drought spells, or flooding, pose an enormous risk to crop productivity. Studies on the implications of multiple stresses may vary from those on a single stress. Usually, these stresses coincide, amplifying the extent of collateral damage and contributing to significant financial losses. The breadth of investigations focusing on the response of horticultural crops to a single abiotic stress is immense. However, the tolerance mechanisms of horticultural crops to multiple abiotic stresses remain poorly understood. In this review, we described the most prevalent types of abiotic stresses that occur simultaneously and discussed them in in-depth detail regarding the physiological and molecular responses of horticultural crops. In particular, we discussed the transcriptional, posttranscriptional, and metabolic responses of horticultural crops to multiple abiotic stresses. Strategies to breed multi-stress-resilient lines have been presented. Our manuscript presents an interesting amount of proposed knowledge that could be valuable in generating resilient genotypes for multiple stressors.
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- Wenjing Yan
- School of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (W.Y.); (R.S.); (H.S.); (Y.Z.); (X.C.)
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- School of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (W.Y.); (R.S.); (H.S.); (Y.Z.); (X.C.)
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- School of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (W.Y.); (R.S.); (H.S.); (Y.Z.); (X.C.)
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- School of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (W.Y.); (R.S.); (H.S.); (Y.Z.); (X.C.)
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- School of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (W.Y.); (R.S.); (H.S.); (Y.Z.); (X.C.)
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- School of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China; (W.Y.); (R.S.); (H.S.); (Y.Z.); (X.C.)
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, The Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
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Hou X, Lu Z, Yu T, Zhang Y, Yao Q, Zhang C, Niu Y, Liang Q. Two maize homologs of mammalian proton-coupled folate transporter, ZmMFS_1-62 and ZmMFS_1-73, are essential to salt and drought tolerance. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2024; 210:108623. [PMID: 38626656 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2024.108623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2024] [Revised: 03/31/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
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Folates are essential to the maintenance of normal life activities in almost all organisms. Proton-coupled folate transporter (PCFT), belonging to the major facilitator superfamily, is one of the three major folate transporter types widely studied in mammals. However, information about plant PCFTs is limited. Here, a genome-wide identification of maize PCFTs was performed, and two PCFTs, ZmMFS_1-62 and ZmMFS_1-73, were functionally investigated. Both proteins contained the typical 12 transmembrane helixes with N- and C-termini located in the cytoplasm, and were localized in the plasma membrane. Molecular docking analysis indicated their binding activity with folates via hydrogen bonding. Interference with ZmMFS_1-62 and ZmMFS_1-73 in maize seedlings through virus-induced gene silencing disrupted folate homeostasis, mainly in the roots, and reduced tolerance to drought and salt stresses. Moreover, a molecular chaperone protein, ZmHSP20, was found to interact with ZmMFS_1-62 and ZmMFS_1-73, and interference with ZmHSP20 in maize seedlings also led to folate disruption and increased sensitivity to drought and salt stresses. Overall, this is the first report of functional identification of maize PCFTs, which play essential roles in salt and drought stress tolerance, thereby linking folate metabolism with abiotic stress responses in maize.
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- Xiaowan Hou
- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China; Key Laboratory of Hainan Province for Postharvest Physiology and Technology of Tropical Horticultural Products, South Subtropical Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang, China; Key Laboratory of Forage and Endemic Crop Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Hainan Province for Postharvest Physiology and Technology of Tropical Horticultural Products, South Subtropical Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang, China.
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- Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of the Research and Development of Novel Pharmaceutical Preparations, the "Double-First Class" Application Characteristic Discipline of Hunan Province (Pharmaceutical Science), Changsha Medical University, Changsha 410219, China.
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China; Key Laboratory of Hainan Province for Postharvest Physiology and Technology of Tropical Horticultural Products, South Subtropical Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Hainan Province for Postharvest Physiology and Technology of Tropical Horticultural Products, South Subtropical Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang, China.
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China; National Nanfan Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, 572000, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Forage and Endemic Crop Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China.
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- Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China; National Nanfan Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Sanya, 572000, China.
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Wang P, Zhang T, Li Y, Zhao X, Liu W, Hu Y, Wang J, Zhou Y. Comprehensive analysis of Dendrobium catenatum HSP20 family genes and functional characterization of DcHSP20-12 in response to temperature stress. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 258:129001. [PMID: 38158058 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.129001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a class of protective proteins in response to abiotic stress in plants, and HSP20 plays an essential role in response to temperature stress. However, there are few studies on HSP20 in Dendrobium catenatum. In this study, 18 DcHSP20 genes were identified from the D. catenatum genome. Phylogenetic analysis showed that DcHSP20s could be classified into six subgroups, each member of which has similar conserved motifs and gene structures. Gene expression analysis of 18 DcHSP20 genes revealed that they exhibited variable expression patterns in different plant tissues. Meanwhile, all 18 DcHSP20 genes were induced to be up-regulated under high temperature, while six genes (DcHSP20-2/9/10/12/16/17) were significantly up-regulated under low temperature. Moreover, combining gene expression under high and low temperature stress, the DcHSP20-12 gene was cloned for functional analysis. The germination ratios, fresh weights, root lengths of two DcHSP20-12-overexpressing transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana lines were significantly higher, but MDA contents were lower than that of wild-type (WT) plants under heat and cold stresses, displayed enhanced thermotolerance and cold-resistance. These results lay a foundation for the functional characterization of DcHSP20s and provide a candidate gene, DcHSP20-12, for improving the tolerance of D. catenatum to temperature stress in the future.
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- Peng Wang
- Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, Hainan University, Sanya 572025, Hainan, China; Key Laboratory for Quality Regulation of Tropical Horticultural Crops of Hainan Province, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China
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- Xiangyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xiangyang 441057, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory for Quality Regulation of Tropical Horticultural Crops of Hainan Province, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China
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- Key Laboratory for Quality Regulation of Tropical Horticultural Crops of Hainan Province, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China
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- Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, Hainan University, Sanya 572025, Hainan, China; Key Laboratory for Quality Regulation of Tropical Horticultural Crops of Hainan Province, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China
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- Key Laboratory for Quality Regulation of Tropical Horticultural Crops of Hainan Province, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China; Key Laboratory of Vegetable Biology of Hainan Province, Hainan Vegetable Breeding Engineering Technology Research Center, The Institute of Vegetables, Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haikou 571199, Hainan, China
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- Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, Hainan University, Sanya 572025, Hainan, China; Key Laboratory for Quality Regulation of Tropical Horticultural Crops of Hainan Province, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China
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- Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, Hainan University, Sanya 572025, Hainan, China; Key Laboratory for Quality Regulation of Tropical Horticultural Crops of Hainan Province, School of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry (School of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, School of Rural Revitalization), Hainan University, Haikou 570228, Hainan, China.
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Abasi F, Raja NI, Mashwani ZUR, Ehsan M, Ali H, Shahbaz M. Heat and Wheat: Adaptation strategies with respect to heat shock proteins and antioxidant potential; an era of climate change. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 256:128379. [PMID: 38000583 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.128379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023]
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Extreme changes in weather including heat-wave and high-temperature fluctuations are predicted to increase in intensity and duration due to climate change. Wheat being a major staple crop is under severe threat of heat stress especially during the grain-filling stage. Widespread food insecurity underscores the critical need to comprehend crop responses to forthcoming climatic shifts, pivotal for devising adaptive strategies ensuring sustainable crop productivity. This review addresses insights concerning antioxidant, physiological, molecular impacts, tolerance mechanisms, and nanotechnology-based strategies and how wheat copes with heat stress at the reproductive stage. In this study stress resilience strategies were documented for sustainable grain production under heat stress at reproductive stage. Additionally, the mechanisms of heat resilience including gene expression, nanomaterials that trigger transcription factors, (HSPs) during stress, and physiological and antioxidant traits were explored. The most reliable method to improve plant resilience to heat stress must include nano-biotechnology-based strategies, such as the adoption of nano-fertilizers in climate-smart practices and the use of advanced molecular approaches. Notably, the novel resistance genes through advanced molecular approach and nanomaterials exhibit promise for incorporation into wheat cultivars, conferring resilience against imminent adverse environmental conditions. This review will help scientific communities in thermo-tolerance wheat cultivars and new emerging strategies to mitigate the deleterious impact of heat stress.
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- Fozia Abasi
- Department of Botany, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan.
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- Department of Botany, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan.
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- Department of Botany, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan
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- Department of Agronomy, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi 46300, Pakistan
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- Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ITBC), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
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Kang X, Zhao L, Liu X. Calcium Signaling and the Response to Heat Shock in Crop Plants. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 25:324. [PMID: 38203495 PMCID: PMC10778685 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25010324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
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Climate change and the increasing frequency of high temperature (HT) events are significant threats to global crop yields. To address this, a comprehensive understanding of how plants respond to heat shock (HS) is essential. Signaling pathways involving calcium (Ca2+), a versatile second messenger in plants, encode information through temporal and spatial variations in ion concentration. Ca2+ is detected by Ca2+-sensing effectors, including channels and binding proteins, which trigger specific cellular responses. At elevated temperatures, the cytosolic concentration of Ca2+ in plant cells increases rapidly, making Ca2+ signals the earliest response to HS. In this review, we discuss the crucial role of Ca2+ signaling in raising plant thermotolerance, and we explore its multifaceted contributions to various aspects of the plant HS response (HSR).
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Ministry of Education, Hebei Research Center of the Basic Discipline of Cell Biology, Hebei Collaboration Innovation Center for Cell Signaling, Hebei Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China;
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Ministry of Education, Hebei Research Center of the Basic Discipline of Cell Biology, Hebei Collaboration Innovation Center for Cell Signaling, Hebei Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China;
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Zhang C, Zhang Y, Su Z, Shen Z, Song H, Cai Z, Xu J, Guo L, Zhang Y, Guo S, Sun M, Li S, Yu M. Integrated analysis of HSP20 genes in the developing flesh of peach: identification, expression profiling, and subcellular localization. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 23:663. [PMID: 38129812 PMCID: PMC10740231 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-023-04621-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Plant HSP20s are not only synthesized in response to heat stress but are also involved in plant biotic and abiotic stress resistance, normal metabolism, development, differentiation, survival, ripening, and death. Thus, HSP20 family genes play very important and diverse roles in plants. To our knowledge, HSP20 family genes in peach have not yet been characterized in detail, and little is known about their possible function in the development of red flesh in peach. RESULTS In total, 44 PpHSP20 members were identified in the peach genome in this study. Forty-four PpHSP20s were classified into 10 subfamilies, CI, CII, CIII, CV, CVI, CVII, MII, CP, ER, and Po, containing 18, 2, 2, 10, 5, 1, 1, 2, 1, and 2 proteins, respectively. Among the 44 PpHSP20 genes, 6, 4, 4, 3, 7, 11, 5, and 4 PpHSP20 genes were located on chromosomes 1 to 8, respectively. In particular, approximately 15 PpHSP20 genes were located at both termini or one terminus of each chromosome. A total of 15 tandem PpHSP20 genes were found in the peach genome, which belonged to five tandemly duplicated groups. Overall, among the three cultivars, the number of PpHSP20 genes with higher expression levels in red flesh was greater than that in yellow or white flesh. The expression profiling for most of the PpHSP20 genes in the red-fleshed 'BJ' was higher overall at the S3 stage than at the S2, S4-1, and S4-2 stages, with the S3 stage being a very important period of transformation from a white color to the gradual anthocyanin accumulation in the flesh of this cultivar. The subcellular localizations of 16 out of 19 selected PpHSP20 proteins were in accordance with the corresponding subfamily classification and naming. Additionally, to our knowledge, Prupe.3G034800.1 is the first HSP20 found in plants that has the dual targets of both the endoplasmic reticulum and nucleus. CONCLUSIONS This study provides a comprehensive understanding of PpHSP20s, lays a foundation for future analyses of the unknown function of PpHSP20 family genes in red-fleshed peach fruit and advances our understanding of plant HSP20 genes.
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- Chunhua Zhang
- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Suzhou Polytechnic Institute of Agriculture, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Zheng M, Song Y, Wang L, Yang D, Yan J, Sun Y, Hsu YF. CaRH57, a RNA helicase, contributes pepper tolerance to heat stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2023; 205:108202. [PMID: 37995575 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.108202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2023] [Revised: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023]
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RNA helicases (RHs) are required for most aspects of RNA metabolism and play an important role in plant stress tolerance. Heat stress (HS) causes the deleterious effects on plant cells, such as membrane disruption and protein misfolding, which results in the inhibition of plant growth and development. In this study, CaRH57 was identified from pepper (Capsicum annuum) and encodes a DEAD-box RH. CaRH57 was induced by HS, and overexpression of CaRH57 in Atrh57-1 rescued the glucose-sensitive phenotype of Atrh57-1, suggesting the functional replacement of CaRH57 to AtRH57. The nucleolus-localized CaRH57 possessed a RH activity in vitro. CaRH57 knockdown impaired pepper heat tolerance, showing severe necrosis and enhanced ROS accumulation in the region of the shoot tip. Additionally, accumulation of aberrant-spliced CaHSFA1d and CaHSFA9d was enhanced, and the corresponding mature mRNA levels were reduced in the TRV2 (Tobacco rattle virus)-CaRH57-infected plants compared with the control plants under HS. Overall, these results suggested that CaRH57 acted as a RH to confer pepper heat tolerance and was required for the proper pre-mRNA splicing of some HS-related genes.
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- Min Zheng
- School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
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Mohan N, Jhandai S, Bhadu S, Sharma L, Kaur T, Saharan V, Pal A. Acclimation response and management strategies to combat heat stress in wheat for sustainable agriculture: A state-of-the-art review. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2023; 336:111834. [PMID: 37597666 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2023.111834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Revised: 08/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 08/21/2023]
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Unpredicted variability in climate change on the planet is associated with frequent extreme high-temperature events impacting crop yield globally. Wheat is an economically and nutritionally important crop that fulfils global food requirements and each degree rise in temperature results in ∼6% of its yield reduction. Thus, understanding the impact of climate change, especially the terminal heat stress on global wheat production, becomes critically important for policymakers, crop breeders, researchers and scientists to ensure global food security. This review describes how wheat perceives heat stress and induces stress adaptation events by its morpho-physiological, phenological, molecular, and biochemical makeup. Temperature above a threshold level in crop vicinity leads to irreversible injuries, viz. destruction of cellular membranes and enzymes, generation of active oxygen species, redox imbalance, etc. To cope with these changes, wheat activates its heat tolerance mechanisms characterized by hoarding up soluble carbohydrates, signalling molecules, and heat tolerance gene expressions. Being vulnerable to heat stress, increasing wheat production without delay seeks strategies to mitigate the detrimental effects and provoke the methods for its sustainable development. Thus, to ensure the crop's resilience to stress and increasing food demand, this article circumscribes the integrated management approaches to enhance wheat's performance and adaptive capacity besides its alleviating risks of increasing temperature anticipated with climate change. Implementing these integrated strategies in the face of risks from rising temperatures will assist us in producing sustainable wheat with improved yield.
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- Narender Mohan
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125004, India.
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125004, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125004, India
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- Department of Nematology, College of Agriculture, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125004, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125004, India
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan 313001, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125004, India
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Liu Z, Bian N, Guo J, Zhao S, Khan A, Chu B, Ma Z, Niu C, Ma F, Ma M, Guan Q, Li X. Interfering small ubiquitin modifiers (SUMO) improves the thermotolerance of apple by facilitating the activity of MdDREB2A. STRESS BIOLOGY 2023; 3:10. [PMID: 37676624 PMCID: PMC10442018 DOI: 10.1007/s44154-023-00089-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Heat stress, which is caused by global warming, threatens crops yield and quality across the world. As a kind of post-translation modification, SUMOylation involves in plants heat stress response with a rapid and wide pattern. Here, we identified small ubiquitin modifiers (SUMO), which affect drought tolerance in apple, also participated in thermotolerance. Six isoforms of SUMOs located on six chromosomes in apple genome, and all the SUMOs were up-regulated in response to heat stress condition. The MdSUMO2 RNAi transgenic apple plants exhibited higher survival rate, lower ion leakage, higher catalase (CAT) activity, and Malondialdehyde (MDA) content under heat stress. MdDREB2A, the substrate of MdSUMO2 in apple, was accumulated in MdSUMO2 RNAi transgenic plants than the wild type GL-3 at the protein level in response to heat stress treatment. Further, the inhibited SUMOylation level of MdDREB2A in MdSUMO2 RNAi plants might repress its ubiquitination, too. The accumulated MdDREB2A in MdSUMO2 RNAi plants further induced heat-responsive genes expression to strengthen plants thermotolerance, including MdHSFA3, MdHSP26.5, MdHSP18.2, MdHSP70, MdCYP18-1 and MdTLP1. In summary, these findings illustrate that interfering small ubiquitin modifiers (SUMO) in apple improves plants thermotolerance, partly by facilitating the stability and activity of MdDREB2A.
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- Zeyuan Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- Department of Horticulture, The University of Haripur, Haripur, 22620, Pakistan
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China
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- Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, China.
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Atamian HS, Funk JL. Physiological and transcriptomic responses of two Artemisia californica populations to drought: implications for restoring drought-resilient native communities. Glob Ecol Conserv 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2023] Open
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Huang Y, Cai W, Lu Q, Lv J, Wan M, Guan D, Yang S, He S. PMT6 Is Required for SWC4 in Positively Modulating Pepper Thermotolerance. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24054849. [PMID: 36902276 PMCID: PMC10003703 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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High temperature stress (HTS), with growth and development impairment, is one of the most important abiotic stresses frequently encountered by plants, in particular solanacaes such as pepper, that mainly distribute in tropical and subtropical regions. Plants activate thermotolerance to cope with this stress; however, the underlying mechanism is currently not fully understood. SWC4, a shared component of SWR1- and NuA4 complexes implicated in chromatin remodeling, was previously found to be involved in the regulation of pepper thermotolerance, but the underlying mechanism remains poorly understood. Herein, PMT6, a putative methyltranferase was originally found to interact with SWC4 by co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP)-combined LC/MS assay. This interaction was further confirmed by bimolecular fluorescent complimentary (BiFC) and Co-IP assay, and PMT6 was further found to confer SWC4 methylation. By virus-induced gene silencing, it was found that PMT6 silencing significantly reduced pepper basal thermotolerance and transcription of CaHSP24 and significantly reduced the enrichment of chromatin-activation-related H3K9ac, H4K5ac, and H3K4me3 in TSS of CaHSP24, which was previously found to be positively regulated by CaSWC4. By contrast, the overexpression of PMT6 significantly enhanced basal thermotolerance of pepper plants. All these data indicate that PMT6 acts as a positive regulator in pepper thermotolerance, likely by methylating SWC4.
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- Yu Huang
- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Agricultural College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Agricultural College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Agricultural College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Agricultural College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Agricultural College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Agricultural College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Agricultural College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Correspondence: (S.Y.); (S.H.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Genetics of Universities in Fujian Province, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Agricultural College, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Correspondence: (S.Y.); (S.H.)
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Sun K, Mehari TG, Fang H, Han J, Huo X, Zhang J, Chen Y, Wang D, Zhuang Z, Ditta A, Khan MK, Zhang J, Wang K, Wang B. Transcriptome, proteome and functional characterization reveals salt stress tolerance mechanisms in upland cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 14:1092616. [PMID: 36875590 PMCID: PMC9978342 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1092616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Uncovering the underlying mechanism of salt tolerance is important to breed cotton varieties with improved salt tolerance. In this study, transcriptome and proteome sequencing were performed on upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) variety under salt stress, and integrated analysis was carried out to exploit salt-tolerance genes in cotton. Enrichment analysis using Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) was performed on differentially expressed genes (DEGs) obtained from transcriptome and proteome sequencing. GO enrichment was carried out mainly in the cell membrane, organelle, cellular process, metabolic process, and stress response. The expression of 23,981 genes was changed in physiological and biochemical processes such as cell metabolism. The metabolic pathways obtained by KEGG enrichment included glycerolipid metabolism, sesquiterpene and triterpenoid biosynthesis, flavonoid production, and plant hormone signal transduction. Combined transcriptome and proteome analysis to screen and annotate DEGs yielded 24 candidate genes with significant differential expression. The quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) validation of the candidate genes showed that two genes (Gh_D11G0978 and Gh_D10G0907) responded significantly to the induction of NaCl, and these two genes were further selected as target genes for gene cloning and functional validation through virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS). The silenced plants exhibited early wilting with a greater degree of salt damage under salt treatment. Moreover, they showed higher levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) than the control. Therefore, we can infer that these two genes have a pivotal role in the response to salt stress in upland cotton. The findings in this research will facilitate the breeding of salt tolerance cotton varieties that can be grown on saline alkaline lands.
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- Kangtai Sun
- School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cotton Breeding and Cultivation in Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, Institute of Industrial Crops, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cotton Breeding and Cultivation in Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, Institute of Industrial Crops, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cotton Breeding and Cultivation in Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, Institute of Industrial Crops, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Division, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Plant Breeding and Genetics Division, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Key Laboratory of Cotton Breeding and Cultivation in Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, Institute of Industrial Crops, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China
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Abdelrahman M, Mostofa MG, Tran CD, El-Sayed M, Li W, Sulieman S, Tanaka M, Seki M, Tran LSP. The Karrikin Receptor Karrikin Insensitive2 Positively Regulates Heat Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 63:1914-1926. [PMID: 35880749 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcac112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2022] [Revised: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In this study, we investigated the potential role of the karrikin receptor KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 (KAI2) in the response of Arabidopsis seedlings to high-temperature stress. We performed phenotypic, physiological and transcriptome analyses of Arabidopsis kai2 mutants and wild-type (WT) plants under control (kai2_C and WT_C, respectively) and 6- and 24-h heat stress conditions (kai2_H6, kai2_H24, WT_H6 and WT_H24, respectively) to understand the basis for KAI2-regulated heat stress tolerance. We discovered that the kai2 mutants exhibited hypersensitivity to high-temperature stress relative to WT plants, which might be associated with a more highly increased leaf surface temperature and cell membrane damage in kai2 mutant plants. Next, we performed comparative transcriptome analysis of kai2_C, kai2_H6, kai2_H24, WT_C, WT_H6 and WT_H24 to identify transcriptome differences between WT and kai2 mutants in response to heat stress. K-mean clustering of normalized gene expression separated the investigated genotypes into three clusters based on heat-treated and non-treated control conditions. Within each cluster, the kai2 mutants were separated from WT plants, implying that kai2 mutants exhibited distinct transcriptome profiles relative to WT plants. Gene Ontology and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes enrichment analyses showed a repression in 'misfolded protein binding', 'heat shock protein binding', 'unfolded protein binding' and 'protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum' pathways, which was consistent with the downregulation of several genes encoding heat shock proteins and heat shock transcription factors in the kai2 mutant versus WT plants under control and heat stress conditions. Our findings suggest that chemical or genetic manipulation of KAI2 signaling may provide a novel way to improve heat tolerance in plants.
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- Mostafa Abdelrahman
- Faculty of Science, Galala University, Suez, El Sokhna 43511, Egypt
- Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Aswan 81528, Egypt
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Genetic Engineering Department, Agricultural Genetics Institute, Vietnamese Academy of Agricultural Science, Pham Van Dong Street, Hanoi 100000, Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Science, Galala University, Suez, El Sokhna 43511, Egypt
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- Jilin Da'an Agro-ecosystem National Observation Research Station, Changchun Jingyuetan Remote Sensing Experiment Station, Key Laboratory of Mollisols Agroecology, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Henan Joint International Laboratory for Crop Multi-Omics Research, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Khartoum, Shambat, Khartoum North 13314, Sudan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, 230-0045 Japan
- Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, 230-0045 Japan
- Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan
- Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 244-0813 Japan
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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Chen LJ, Li ZZ, Zhou XW, Xing XY, Lv B. Integrated transcriptome and metabolome analysis reveals molecular responses of spider to single and combined high temperature and drought stress. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2023; 317:120763. [PMID: 36503821 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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High temperature and drought are abiotic stresses restricting many arthropods' survival and growth. Wolf spiders are poikilothermic arthropods that are vital in managing insects and pests. Nonetheless, investigating changes in spiders under temperature and drought stress are limited, especially at the molecular and gene expression levels. The study found that the combined effects of high temperature and drought stress significantly reduced survival rates and raised superoxide dismutase and malondialdehyde levels in the wolf spider Pardosa pseudoannulata. An integrated transcriptome and metabolome analysis showed that differentially expressed genes and metabolites were highly enriched in pathways involved in the proteolysis and oxidation-reduction process. The gene expression profiles displayed that heat shock protein (HSP) families (i.e., small heat shock protein, HSP70, HSP90, and HSP beta protein) were up-regulated under temperature and/or drought stresses. Additionally, a conjoint analysis revealed that under the combined stress, several important enzymes, including maltase-glucoamylase, glycerol-6-phosphate transporter, alanine-glyoxylate transaminase, and prostaglandin-H2 D-isomerase, were altered, affecting the metabolism of starch, sucrose, amino acids, and arachidonic acid. The protein interaction network further confirmed that under the combined stress, metabolic processes, peptide metabolic processes, and ATP generation from ADP were up-regulated, indicating that spiders could accelerate the metabolism of carbohydrates and proteins to combat stress and maintain homeostasis. Overall, this work showed that exposure to a combination of pressures might cause distinct defensive reactions in spiders and offered novel perspectives to research the molecular underpinnings of spider adaptation to a changing climate.
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- Li-Jun Chen
- College of Urban and Rural Construction, Shaoyang University, 422099, Shaoyang, China.
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- College of Urban and Rural Construction, Shaoyang University, 422099, Shaoyang, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, 400715, Beibei, Chongqing, China
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- College of Urban and Rural Construction, Shaoyang University, 422099, Shaoyang, China
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, University of Missouri, 65211, Columbia, USA
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González-Gordo S, Palma JM, Corpas FJ. Small Heat Shock Protein ( sHSP) Gene Family from Sweet Pepper ( Capsicum annuum L.) Fruits: Involvement in Ripening and Modulation by Nitric Oxide (NO). PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 12:plants12020389. [PMID: 36679102 PMCID: PMC9861568 DOI: 10.3390/plants12020389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are usually upregulated in plants under diverse environmental stresses. These proteins have been suggested to function as molecular chaperones to safeguard other proteins from stress-induced damage. The ripening of pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) fruit involves important phenotypic, physiological, and biochemical changes, which have associated endogenous physiological nitro-oxidative stress, but they can also be significantly affected by environmental conditions, such as temperature. Based on the available pepper genome, a total of 41 sHSP genes were identified in this work, and their distributions in the 12 pepper chromosomes were determined. Among these genes, only 19 sHSP genes were found in the transcriptome (RNA-Seq) of sweet pepper fruits reported previously. This study aims to analyze how these 19 sHSP genes present in the transcriptome of sweet pepper fruits are modulated during ripening and after treatment of fruits with nitric oxide (NO) gas. The time-course expression analysis of these genes during fruit ripening showed that 6 genes were upregulated; another 7 genes were downregulated, whereas 6 genes were not significantly affected. Furthermore, NO treatment triggered the upregulation of 7 sHSP genes and the downregulation of 3 sHSP genes, whereas 9 genes were unchanged. These data indicate the diversification of sHSP genes in pepper plants and, considering that sHSPs are important in stress tolerance, the observed changes in sHSP expression support that pepper fruit ripening has an associated process of physiological nitro-oxidative stress, such as it was previously proposed.
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SiHSFA2e regulated expression of SisHSP21.9 maintains chloroplast proteome integrity under high temperature stress. Cell Mol Life Sci 2022; 79:580. [DOI: 10.1007/s00018-022-04611-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Revised: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Yang F, Lv G. Combined analysis of transcriptome and metabolome reveals the molecular mechanism and candidate genes of Haloxylon drought tolerance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:1020367. [PMID: 36330247 PMCID: PMC9622360 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1020367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Haloxylon ammodendron and Haloxylon persicum, as typical desert plants, show strong drought tolerance and environmental adaptability. They are ideal model plants for studying the molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance. Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses were performed to reveal the response mechanisms of H. ammodendron and H. persicum to a drought environment at the levels of transcription and physiological metabolism. The results showed that the morphological structures of H. ammodendron and H. persicum showed adaptability to drought stress. Under drought conditions, the peroxidase activity, abscisic acid content, auxin content, and gibberellin content of H. ammodendron increased, while the contents of proline and malondialdehyde decreased. The amino acid content of H. persicum was increased, while the contents of proline, malondialdehyde, auxin, and gibberellin were decreased. Under drought conditions, 12,233 and 17,953 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in H. ammodendron and H. persicum , respectively, including members of multiple transcription factor families such as FAR1, AP2/ERF, C2H2, bHLH, MYB, C2C2, and WRKY that were significantly up-regulated under drought stress. In the positive ion mode, 296 and 452 differential metabolites (DEMs) were identified in H. ammodendron and H. persicum, respectively; in the negative ion mode, 252 and 354 DEMs were identified, primarily in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. A combined transcriptome and metabolome analysis showed that drought stress promoted the glycolysis/gluconeogenesis pathways of H. ammodendron and H. persicum and increased the expression of amino acid synthesis pathways, consistent with the physiological results. In addition, transcriptome and metabolome were jointly used to analyze the expression changes of the genes/metabolites of H. ammodendron and H. persicum that were associated with drought tolerance but were regulated differently in the two plants. This study identified drought-tolerance genes and metabolites in H. ammodendron and H. persicum and has provided new ideas for studying the drought stress response of Haloxylon.
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- Fang Yang
- School of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China
- Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Ministry of Education, Urumqi, China
- Xinjiang Jinghe Observation and Research Station of Temperate Desert Ecosystem, Ministry of Education, Jinghe, China
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- School of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China
- Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Ministry of Education, Urumqi, China
- Xinjiang Jinghe Observation and Research Station of Temperate Desert Ecosystem, Ministry of Education, Jinghe, China
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Xi Y, Ling Q, Zhou Y, Liu X, Qian Y. ZmNAC074, a maize stress-responsive NAC transcription factor, confers heat stress tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:986628. [PMID: 36247610 PMCID: PMC9558894 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.986628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The harsh environment such as high temperature greatly limits the growth, development and production of crops worldwide. NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC2) transcription factors (TFs) play key regulatory roles in abiotic stress responses of plants. However, the functional roles of NAC TFs in heat stress response of maize remain elusive. In our present study, we identified and isolated a stress-responsive NAC transcription factor gene in maize, designated as ZmNAC074 and orthologous with rice OsNTL3. Further studies revealed that ZmNAC074 may encode a membrane-bound transcription factor (MTF) of NAC family in maize, which is comprised of 517 amino acid residues with a transmembrane domain at the C-terminus. Moreover, ZmNAC074 was highly expressed and induced by various abiotic stresses in maize seedlings, especially in leaf tissues under heat stress. Through generating ZmNAC074 transgenic plants, phenotypic and physiological analyses further displayed that overexpression of ZmNAC074 in transgenic Arabidopsis confers enhanced heat stress tolerance significantly through modulating the accumulation of a variety of stress metabolites, including reactive oxygen species (ROS), antioxidants, malondialdehyde (MDA), proline, soluble protein, chlorophyll and carotenoid. Further, quantitative real-time PCR analysis showed that the expression levels of most ROS scavenging and HSR- and UPR-associated genes in transgenic Arabidopsis were significantly up-regulated under heat stress treatments, suggesting that ZmNAC074 may encode a positive regulator that activates the expression of ROS-scavenging genes and HSR- and UPR-associated genes to enhance plant thermotolerance under heat stress conditions. Overall, our present study suggests that ZmNAC074 may play a crucial role in conferring heat stress tolerance in plants, providing a key candidate regulatory gene for heat stress tolerance regulation and genetic improvement in maize as well as in other crops.
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Phylogenetic and Transcriptional Analyses of the HSP20 Gene Family in Peach Revealed That PpHSP20-32 Is Involved in Plant Height and Heat Tolerance. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231810849. [PMID: 36142761 PMCID: PMC9501816 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231810849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The heat shock protein 20 (HSP20) proteins comprise an ancient, diverse, and crucial family of proteins that exists in all organisms. As a family, the HSP20s play an obvious role in thermotolerance, but little is known about their molecular functions in addition to heat acclimation. In this study, 42 PpHSP20 genes were detected in the peach genome and were randomly distributed onto the eight chromosomes. The primary modes of gene duplication of the PpHSP20s were dispersed gene duplication (DSD) and tandem duplication (TD). PpHSP20s in the same class shared similar motifs. Based on phylogenetic analysis of HSP20s in peach, Arabidopsis thaliana, Glycine max, and Oryza sativa, the PpHSP20s were classified into 11 subclasses, except for two unclassified PpHSP20s. cis-elements related to stress and hormone responses were detected in the promoter regions of most PpHSP20s. Gene expression analysis of 42 PpHSP20 genes revealed that the expression pattern of PpHSP20-32 was highly consistent with shoot length changes in the cultivar 'Zhongyoutao 14', which is a temperature-sensitive semi-dwarf. PpHSP20-32 was selected for further functional analysis. The plant heights of three transgenic Arabidopsis lines overexpressing PpHSP20-32 were significantly higher than WT, although there was no significant difference in the number of nodes. In addition, the seeds of three over-expressing lines of PpHSP20-32 treated with high temperature showed enhanced thermotolerance. These results provide a foundation for the functional characterization of PpHSP20 genes and their potential use in the growth and development of peach.
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Wu J, Gao T, Hu J, Zhao L, Yu C, Ma F. Research advances in function and regulation mechanisms of plant small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) under environmental stresses. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 825:154054. [PMID: 35202686 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Plants respond to various stresses by triggering the expression of genes that encode proteins involved in plant growth, fruit ripening, cellular protein homeostasis, and tolerance systems. sHSPs, a subfamily of heat shock proteins (HSPs), can be expressed in plants to inhibit abnormal aggregation of proteins and protect normal proteins by interacting with folding target proteins, protect cell integrity, and improve resistance under various adverse conditions. Thus, sHSPs have significant influences on seed germination and plant development. In this review, the classification, structure, and functions of sHSP family members in plants are systematically summarized, with emphasis on their roles in promoting fruit ripening and plant growth by reducing the accumulation of ROS, improving the survival rate of plants and the antioxidant activity, and protecting photosynthesis under biotic and abiotic stresses. Meanwhile, the production and regulatory mechanisms of sHSPs are described in detail. Heat shock factors, long non-coding RNA (lncRNAs), microRNA (miRNAs), and FK506 binding proteins are related to the production process of sHSPs. Molecular chaperone complex HSP70/100, plastidic proteins, and abscisic acid (ABA) are involved in the regulatory mechanisms of sHSPs. Besides, scientific efforts and practices for improving plant stress resistance have carried out the constitutive expression of sHSPs in transgenic plants in recent years. It is a powerful path for inducing the protective mechanisms of plants under various stresses. Therefore, exploring the role of sHSPs in the plant defense system paves a way for comprehensively unraveling plant tolerance in response to biotic and abiotic stress.
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- Jieting Wu
- School of Environmental Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Environmental Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, People's Republic of China
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- Dalian Neusoft University of Information, Dalian 116032, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, People's Republic of China
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- School of Environmental Science, Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, People's Republic of China.
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Chen X, Xu Z, Zhao B, Yang Y, Mi J, Zhao Z, Liu J. Physiological and Proteomic Analysis Responsive Mechanisms for Salt Stress in Oat. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:891674. [PMID: 35783977 PMCID: PMC9240473 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.891674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Oat is considered as a moderately salt-tolerant crop that can be used to improve saline and alkaline soils. Previous studies have focused on short-term salt stress exposure, and the molecular mechanisms of salt tolerance in oat have not yet been elucidated. In this study, the salt-tolerant oat cultivar Vao-9 and the salt-sensitive oat cultivar Bai5 were treated with 6 days of 0 and 150 mmol L-1 salt stress (nNaCl:nNa2SO4 = 1:1). Label-Free technology was then used to analyze the differentially expressed proteins in leaves under 0 and 150 mmol L-1 salt stress. The obtained results indicated that total of 2,631 proteins were identified by mass spectrometry in the four samples. The salt-tolerant cultivar Vao-9 mainly enhances its carbohydrate and energy metabolism through the pentose and glucuronate interconversions, and carbon fixation pathways in prokaryotes, thereby reducing the damage caused by salt stress. In addition, the down-regulation of ribosomes expression and the up-regulated expression of HSPs and CRT are all through the regulation of protein synthesis in response to salt stress. However, GABA metabolism presents a different synthesis pattern in Bai5 and Vao-9. The main KEGG function of differential expressed protein (DEP) in Bai5 is classified into protein processing in the endoplasmic reticulum, estrogen signaling pathway, antigen processing and presentation, longevity regulating pathway-multiple species, arginine and proline metabolism, beta-alanine metabolism, vitamin B6 metabolism, salmonella infection, chloroalkane and chloroalkene degradation, and limonene and pinene degradation. Moreover, the main KEGG functions of DEP in Vao-9 are classified as ribosome and carbon fixation pathways in prokaryotes, pentose and glucuronate interconversions, GABA ergic synapse, and taurine and hypotaurine metabolism. The results obtained in this study provide an important basis for further research on the underlying mechanisms of salt response and tolerance in oat and other plant species.
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- Xiaojing Chen
- Cereal Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- National Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Research and Their Innovative Teams, Hohhot, China
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- Cereal Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- National Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Research and Their Innovative Teams, Hohhot, China
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- Cereal Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- National Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Research and Their Innovative Teams, Hohhot, China
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- Cereal Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- National Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Research and Their Innovative Teams, Hohhot, China
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- Cereal Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- National Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Research and Their Innovative Teams, Hohhot, China
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- Cereal Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- National Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Research and Their Innovative Teams, Hohhot, China
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- Cereal Industry Collaborative Innovation Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China
- National Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Research and Their Innovative Teams, Hohhot, China
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Zhang M, Jian S, Wang Z. Comprehensive Analysis of the Hsp20 Gene Family in Canavalia rosea Indicates Its Roles in the Response to Multiple Abiotic Stresses and Adaptation to Tropical Coral Islands. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23126405. [PMID: 35742848 PMCID: PMC9223760 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23126405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Heat shock protein 20 (Hsp20) is a major family of heat shock proteins that mainly function as molecular chaperones and are markedly accumulated in cells when organisms are subjected to environmental stress, particularly heat. Canavalia rosea is an extremophile halophyte with good adaptability to environmental high temperature and is widely distributed in coastal areas or islands in tropical and subtropical regions. In this study, we identified a total of 41 CrHsp20 genes in the C. rosea genome. The gene structures, phylogenetic relationships, chromosome locations, and conserved motifs of each CrHsp20 or encoding protein were analyzed. The promoters of CrHsp20s contained a series of predicted cis-acting elements, which indicates that the expression of different CrHsp20 members is regulated precisely. The expression patterns of the CrHsp20 family were analyzed by RNA sequencing both at the tissue-specific level and under different abiotic stresses, and were further validated by quantitative reverse transcription PCR. The integrated expression profiles of the CrHsp20s indicated that most CrHsp20 genes were greatly upregulated (up to dozens to thousands of times) after 2 h of heat stress. However, some of the heat-upregulated CrHsp20 genes showed completely different expression patterns in response to salt, alkaline, or high osmotic stresses, which indicates their potential specific function in mediating the response of C. rosea to abiotic stresses. In addition, some of CrHsp20s were cloned and functionally characterized for their roles in abiotic stress tolerance in yeast. Taken together, these findings provide a foundation for functionally characterizing Hsp20s to unravel their possible roles in the adaptation of this species to tropical coral reefs. Our results also contribute to the understanding of the complexity of the response of CrHsp20 genes to other abiotic stresses and may help in future studies evaluating the functional characteristics of CrHsp20s for crop genetic improvement.
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- Mei Zhang
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany and South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
- CAS Engineering Laboratory for Vegetation Ecosystem Restoration on Islands and Coastal Zones, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China;
- Correspondence: (M.Z.); (Z.W.)
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- CAS Engineering Laboratory for Vegetation Ecosystem Restoration on Islands and Coastal Zones, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China;
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany and South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
- CAS Engineering Laboratory for Vegetation Ecosystem Restoration on Islands and Coastal Zones, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China;
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
- Correspondence: (M.Z.); (Z.W.)
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Sun Y, Hu D, Xue P, Wan X. Identification of the DcHsp20 gene family in carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus) and functional characterization of DcHsp17.8 in heat tolerance. PLANTA 2022; 256:2. [PMID: 35624182 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-022-03915-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/11/2022] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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33 heat shock protein 20 (Hsp20) genes were identified from the carnation genome whose expression were altered by abiotic stresses. DcHsp17.8 may function to improve the heat resistance of Arabidopsis. Heat shock proteins 20 (Hsp20s) mainly function as molecular chaperones that play crucial roles in relieving abiotic stresses such as heat stress. In this study, we identified and characterized 33 DcHsp20 genes from the carnation genome that were classified into 9 subfamilies. Gene structure analysis showed that 25 DcHsp20 genes contained 1 intron whilst the remaining 8 DcHsp20 genes did not contain introns. Motif analysis found that DcHsp20 proteins were relatively conserved. Cis-regulatory elements analysis of the Hsp20 promoters revealed a number of cis-regulatory elements that regulate growth and development, hormone and stress responses. Gene expression analysis revealed that DcHsp20 genes had multiple response patterns to heat stress. The largest range of induction occurred in DcHsp17.8 after 1 h of heat stress. Under cold stress, or treatment with saline or abscisic acid, the expression of most DcHsp20 genes was inhibited. To further understand the function of DcHsp20 genes in response to heat stress, we overexpressed DcHsp17.8 in Arabidopis and the plants showed improved heat tolerance, O2- and H2O2 activities and photosynthetic capacity with reduced relative electrolyte leakage and malondialdehyde content. Gene expression analysis revealed that DcHsp17.8 modulated the expression of genes involved in antioxidant enzyme synthesis. Our data provided a solid foundation for the further detailed study of DcHsp20 genes.
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- Yuying Sun
- College of Landscape and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, No.100, Changcheng Road, Chengyang District, Qingdao, 266109, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- College of Landscape and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, No.100, Changcheng Road, Chengyang District, Qingdao, 266109, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- College of Landscape and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, No.100, Changcheng Road, Chengyang District, Qingdao, 266109, Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- College of Landscape and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, No.100, Changcheng Road, Chengyang District, Qingdao, 266109, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
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Zhou Y, Wang Y, Xu F, Song C, Yang X, Zhang Z, Yi M, Ma N, Zhou X, He J. Small HSPs play an important role in crosstalk between HSF-HSP and ROS pathways in heat stress response through transcriptomic analysis in lilies (Lilium longiflorum). BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 22:202. [PMID: 35439940 PMCID: PMC9017035 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03587-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND High temperature seriously limits the annual production of fresh cut lilies, which is one of the four major cut flowers in the global cut flower market. There were few transcriptomes focused on the gene expression of lilies under heat stress. In order to reveal the potential heat response patterns in bulbous plants and provide important genes for further genetic engineering techniques to improve thermotolerance of lily, RNA sequencing of lilies under heat treatments were conducted. RESULTS In this study, seedlings of Lilium longiflorum 'White Heaven' were heat-treated at 37 °C for different lengths of time (0 h, 0.5 h, 1 h, 3 h, 6 h, and 12 h with a 12 h-light/12 h-dark cycle). The leaves of these lily seedlings were immediately collected after heat treatments and quickly put into liquid nitrogen for RNA sequencing. 109,364,486-171,487,430 clean reads and 55,044 unigenes including 21,608 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) (fold change ≥2) were obtained after heat treatment. The number of DEGs increased sharply during the heat treatments of 0.5 h-1 h and 1 h-3 h compared to that of other periods. Genes of the heat stress transcription factor (HSF) family and the small heat shock proteins (small HSPs, also known as HSP20) family responded to heat stress early and quickly. Compared to that of the calcium signal and hormone pathways, DEGs of the HSF-HSP pathway and reactive oxygen species (ROS) pathway were significantly and highly induced. Moreover, they had the similar expression pattern in response to heat stress. Small HSPs family genes were the major components in the 50 most highly induced genes at each heat stress treatment and involved in ROS pathway in the rapid response to heat stress. Furthermore, the barley stripe mosaic virus induced gene silencing (BSMV-VIGS) of LlHsfA2 caused a significantly reduced thermotolerance phenotype in Lilium longiflorum 'White Heaven', meanwhile decreasing the expression of small HSPs family genes and increasing the ROS scavenging enzyme ascorbate peroxidase (APX) genes, indicating the potential interplay between these two pathways. CONCLUSIONS Based on our transcriptomic analysis, we provide a new finding that small HSPs play important roles in crosstalk between HSF-HSP and ROS pathways in heat stress response of lily, which also supply the groundwork for understanding the mechanism of heat stress in bulbous plants.
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- Yunzhuan Zhou
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, People's Republic of China.
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Tian C, Zhang Z, Huang Y, Xu J, Liu Z, Xiang Z, Zhao F, Xue J, Xue T, Duan Y. Functional characterization of the Pinellia ternata cytoplasmic class II small heat shock protein gene PtsHSP17.2 via promoter analysis and overexpression in tobacco. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2022; 177:1-9. [PMID: 35219190 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2022.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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High temperature is one of the main abiotic factors limiting agricultural production, particularly for heat-sensitive plant species. Small heat-shock proteins contribute substantially to alleviating damage to plants caused by heat stress. In the present study, the heat shock protein gene PtsHSP17.2 from Pinellia ternata was functionally characterized through promoter analysis and its overexpression in tobacco. Respectively, relative expression using real-time RT-PCR and ex situ promoter activity assay indicated that PtsHSP17.2 is strongly inducible under heat stress, and in silico promoter analysis discovered multiple stress-related cis elements including heat shock element. When overexpressing PtsHSP17.2 in tobacco, the thermotolerance of transgenic plants was markedly enhanced. Furthermore, the transgenic tobacco plants exhibited less variation in chlorophyll content, relative electrolyte leakage, and malondialdehyde content under heat stress compared with wild-type (WT) plants. The activities of antioxidant enzymes and content of proline were significantly enhanced under heat stress in transgenic plants relative to WT plants. Transgenic plants also had enhanced water retention and increased antioxidative capacity. Further, the expression levels of genes encoding antioxidant enzymes were more highly induced by heat stress in transgenic lines than WT. These results enrich the current understanding of thermal adaptation of heat-sensitive plant species and encourage further genetic improvement.
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- Chen Tian
- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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- Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Featured Resource Plants, College of Life Sciences, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, Anhui, 235000, PR China.
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Momo J, Kumar A, Islam K, Ahmad I, Rawoof A, Ramchiary N. A comprehensive update on Capsicum proteomics: Advances and future prospects. J Proteomics 2022; 261:104578. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2022.104578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Nieto-Garibay A, Barraza A, Caamal-Chan G, Murillo-Amador B, Troyo-Diéguez E, Burgoa-Cruz CA, Jaramillo-Limón JN, Loera-Muro A. Habanero pepper ( Capsicum chinense) adaptation to water-deficit stress in a protected agricultural system. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2022; 49:295-306. [PMID: 35130477 DOI: 10.1071/fp20394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Drought is one of the major factors limiting global crop yield. In Mexico, agriculture is expected to be severely affected by drought. The Capsicum genus has several crop species of agricultural importance. In this work, we analysed the Capsicum chinense plant physiological responses and differentially expressed genes under water stress mainly focused on the responses elicited following recovery through repetitive stress. Plants were cultivated in an experimental block. Each block consisted of plants under water deficit and a control group without deficit. Morphometric and functional parameters, and the expression of genes related to resistance to abiotic stresses were measured. Morphological differences were observed. Plants subjected to water deficit showed impaired growth. Nonetheless, in the physiological parameters, no differences were observed between treatments. We selected abiotic stress-related genes that include heat-shock proteins (HSPs), heat-shock factors (HSFs), transcription factors related to abiotic stress (MYB, ETR1 , and WRKY ), and those associated with biotic and abiotic stress responses (Jar1 and Lox2 ). HSF, HSP, MYB72, ETR1, Jar1, WRKYa , and Lox2 genes were involved in the response to water-deficit stress in C. chinense plants. In conclusion, our work may improve our understanding of the morphological, physiological, and molecular mechanisms underlying hydric stress response in C. chinense .
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- Alejandra Nieto-Garibay
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, SC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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- CONACYT-Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, SC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, C.P. 23096, Mexico
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- CONACYT-Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, SC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, C.P. 23096, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, SC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, SC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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- Instituto Tecnológico de La Paz, Boulevard Forjadores de Baja California Sur 4720, 8 de Octubre 2da Secc, La Paz, Baja California Sur, C.P. 23080, Mexico
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- Universidad de Occidente, Unidad los Mochis Boulevard Macario Gaxiola SN Col. Las Malvinas, C.P. 81216, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico
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- CONACYT-Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, SC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, C.P. 23096, Mexico
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Lei S, Wang Q, Chen Y, Song Y, Zheng M, Hsu YF. Capsicum SIZ1 contributes to ABA-induced SUMOylation in pepper. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 314:111099. [PMID: 34895537 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2021.111099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Abiotic and biotic stresses are the major factors limiting plant growth. Arabidopsis E3 SUMO ligase SIZ1 plays an essential role in plant stress tolerance. Herein, we identified a SIZ/PAIS-type protein in pepper (Capsicum annuum), namely CaSIZ1, which shares 60 % sequence identity with AtSIZ1. The stems and flowers of pepper had a relatively higher expression of CaSIZ1 than the fruits, leaves, and roots. ABA and NaCl treatments induced CaSIZ1. CaSIZ1 protein was localized in the nucleus and partially rescued the dwarf and ABA-sensitive phenotypes of Atsiz1-2, suggesting the functional replacement of CaSIZ1 with AtSIZ1. We found that CaSIZ1 interacted with CaABI5, and ABA promoted the accumulation of SUMO conjugates in pepper. CaSIZ1 knockdown did not only reduce ABA-induced SUMOylation, but also attenuated the salt tolerance of pepper. Overall, the results of this study suggest that CaSIZ1 has a significant role in ABA-induced SUMOylation and stress response.
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- Shikang Lei
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China.
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Chaudhry S, Sidhu GPS. Climate change regulated abiotic stress mechanisms in plants: a comprehensive review. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2022; 41:1-31. [PMID: 34351488 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-021-02759-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/18/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Global climate change is identified as a major threat to survival of natural ecosystems. Climate change is a dynamic, multifaceted system of alterations in environmental conditions that affect abiotic and biotic components of the world. It results in alteration in environmental conditions such as heat waves, intensity of rainfall, CO2 concentration and temperature that lead to rise in new pests, weeds and pathogens. Climate change is one of the major constraints limiting plant growth and development worldwide. It impairs growth, disturbs photosynthesis, and reduces physiological responses in plants. The variations in global climate have gained the attention of researchers worldwide, as these changes negatively affect the agriculture by reducing crop productivity and food security. With this background, this review focuses on the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration, temperature, drought and salinity on the morphology, physiology and biochemistry of plants. Furthermore, this paper outlines an overview on the reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and their impact on the biochemical and molecular status of plants with increased climatic variations. Also additionally, different tolerance strategies adopted by plants to combat environmental adversities have been discussed.
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- Smita Chaudhry
- Institute of Environmental Studies, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, 136119, India
- Centre for Applied Biology in Environment Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, 136119, India
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- Centre for Applied Biology in Environment Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, 136119, India.
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Mao X, Hou N, Liu Z, He J. Profiling of N 6-Methyladenosine (m 6A) Modification Landscape in Response to Drought Stress in Apple ( Malus prunifolia (Willd.) Borkh). PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 11:plants11010103. [PMID: 35009106 PMCID: PMC8747461 DOI: 10.3390/plants11010103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Revised: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Drought stress is a significant environmental factor limiting crop growth worldwide. Malus prunifolia is an important apple species endemic to China and is used for apple cultivars and rootstocks with great drought tolerance. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is a common epigenetic modification on messenger RNAs (mRNAs) in eukaryotes which is critical for various biological processes. However, there are no reports on m6A methylation in apple response to drought stress. Here, we assessed the m6A landscape of M. prunifolia seedlings in response to drought and analyzed the association between m6A modification and transcript expression. In total, we found 19,783 and 19,609 significant m6A peaks in the control and drought treatment groups, respectively, and discovered a UGUAH (H: A/U/C) motif. In M. prunifolia, under both control and drought conditions, peaks were highly enriched in the 3' untranslated region (UTR) and coding sequence (CDS). Among 4204 significant differential m6A peaks in drought-treated M. prunifolia compared to control-treated M. prunifolia, 4158 genes with m6A modification were identified. Interestingly, a large number of hypermethylated peaks (4069) were stimulated by drought treatment compared to hypomethylation. Among the hypermethylated peak-related genes, 972 and 1238 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were up- and down-regulated in response to drought, respectively. Gene ontology (GO) analyses of differential m6A-modified genes revealed that GO slims related to RNA processing, epigenetic regulation, and stress tolerance were significantly enriched. The m6A modification landscape depicted in this study sheds light on the epigenetic regulation of M. prunifolia in response to drought stress and indicates new directions for the breeding of drought-tolerant apple trees.
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- Xiushan Mao
- Shandong Transport Vocational College, 7369 Bohai Road, Weifang 261206, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China;
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China;
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China;
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
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Xiao JJ, Zhang RX, Khan A, Ul Haq S, Gai WX, Gong ZH. CaFtsH06, A Novel Filamentous Thermosensitive Protease Gene, Is Involved in Heat, Salt, and Drought Stress Tolerance of Pepper ( Capsicum annuum L.). Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22136953. [PMID: 34203346 PMCID: PMC8268771 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22136953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 06/23/2021] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Harsh environmental factors have continuous negative effects on plant growth and development, leading to metabolic disruption and reduced plant productivity and quality. However, filamentation temperature-sensitive H protease (FtsH) plays a prominent role in helping plants to cope with these negative impacts. In the current study, we examined the transcriptional regulation of the CaFtsH06 gene in the R9 thermo-tolerant pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) line. The results of qRT-PCR revealed that CaFtsH06 expression was rapidly induced by abiotic stress treatments, including heat, salt, and drought. The CaFtsH06 protein was localized to the mitochondria and cell membrane. Additionally, silencing CaFtsH06 increased the accumulation of malonaldehyde content, conductivity, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) content, and the activity levels of superoxide dismutase and superoxide (·O2−), while total chlorophyll content decreased under these abiotic stresses. Furthermore, CaFtsH06 ectopic expression enhanced tolerance to heat, salt, and drought stresses, thus decreasing malondialdehyde, proline, H2O2, and ·O2− contents while superoxide dismutase activity and total chlorophyll content were increased in transgenic Arabidopsis. Similarly, the expression levels of other defense-related genes were much higher in the transgenic ectopic expression lines than WT plants. These results suggest that CaFtsH06 confers abiotic stress tolerance in peppers by interfering with the physiological indices through reducing the accumulation of reactive oxygen species, inducing the activities of stress-related enzymes and regulating the transcription of defense-related genes, among other mechanisms. The results of this study suggest that CaFtsH06 plays a very crucial role in the defense mechanisms of pepper plants to unfavorable environmental conditions and its regulatory network with other CaFtsH genes should be examined across variable environments.
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- Jing-Jing Xiao
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
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- Department of Horticulture, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
- Department of Horticulture, University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
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CaHSP18.1a, a Small Heat Shock Protein from Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), Positively Responds to Heat, Drought, and Salt Tolerance. HORTICULTURAE 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/horticulturae7050117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Pepper is a thermophilic crop, shallow-rooted plant that is often severely affected by abiotic stresses such as heat, salt, and drought. The growth and development of pepper is seriously affected by adverse stresses, resulting in decreases in the yield and quality of pepper crops. Small heat shock proteins (s HSPs) play a crucial role in protecting plant cells against various stresses. A previous study in our laboratory showed that the expression level of CaHSP18.1a was highly induced by heat stress, but the function and mechanism of CaHSP18.1a responding to abiotic stresses is not clear. In this study, we first analyzed the expression of CaHSP18.1a in the thermo-sensitive B6 line and thermo-tolerant R9 line and demonstrated that the transcription of CaHSP18.1a was strongly induced by heat stress, salt, and drought stress in both R9 and B6, and that the response is more intense and earlier in the R9 line. In the R9 line, the silencing of CaHSP18.1a decreased resistance to heat, drought, and salt stresses. The silencing of CaHSP18.1a resulted in significant increases in relative electrolyte leakage (REL) and malonaldehyde (MDA) contents, while total chlorophyll content decreased under heat, salt, and drought stresses. Overexpression analyses of CaHSP18.1a in transgenic Arabidopsis further confirmed that CaHSP18.1a functions positively in resistance to heat, drought, and salt stresses. The transgenic Arabidopsis had higherchlorophyll content and activities of superoxide dismutase, catalase, and ascorbate peroxidase than the wild type (WT). However, the relative conductivity and MDA content were decreased in transgenic Arabidopsis compared to the wild type (WT). We further showed that the CaHSP18.1a protein is localized to the cell membrane. These results indicate CaHSP18.1a may act as a positive regulator of responses to abiotic stresses.
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The Chloroplastic Small Heat Shock Protein Gene KvHSP26 Is Induced by Various Abiotic Stresses in Kosteletzkya virginica. Int J Genomics 2021; 2021:6652445. [PMID: 33623779 PMCID: PMC7875624 DOI: 10.1155/2021/6652445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Revised: 01/03/2021] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are a group of chaperone proteins existed in all organisms. The functions of sHSPs in heat and abiotic stress responses in many glycophyte plants have been studied. However, their possible roles in halophyte plants are still largely known. In this work, a putative sHSP gene KvHSP26 was cloned from K. virginica. Bioinformatics analyses revealed that KvHSP26 encoded a chloroplastic protein with the typical features of sHSPs. Amino acid sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that KvHSP26 shared 30%-77% homology with other sHSPs from Arabidopsis, cotton, durian, salvia, and soybean. Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assays exhibited that KvHSP26 was constitutively expressed in different tissues such as leaves, stems, and roots, with a relatively higher expression in leaves. Furthermore, expression of KvHSP26 was strongly induced by salt, heat, osmotic stress, and ABA in K. virginica. All these results suggest that KvHSP26 encodes a new sHSP, which is involved in multiple abiotic stress responses in K. virginica, and it has a great potential to be used as a candidate gene for the breeding of plants with improved tolerances to various abiotic stresses.
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Zhang RX, Zhu WC, Cheng GX, Yu YN, Li QH, Haq SU, Said F, Gong ZH. A novel gene, CaATHB-12, negatively regulates fruit carotenoid content under cold stress in Capsicum annuum. Food Nutr Res 2021; 64:3729. [PMID: 33447178 PMCID: PMC7778427 DOI: 10.29219/fnr.v64.3729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Revised: 05/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Background Carotenoids, the secondary metabolites terpenoids, are the largest factors that form the fruit color. Similar to flavonoids, they are not only safe and natural colorants of fruits but also play a role as stress response biomolecules. Methods To study the contribution of the key genes in carotenoids biosynthesis, fruit-color formation, and in response to cold stress, we characterized the key regulatory factor CaATHB-12 from the HD-ZIP I sub-gene family members in pepper. Results Cold stress enhanced carotenoid accumulation as compared with the normal condition. CaATHB-12 silencing through virus-induced gene silencing changed the fruit color by regulating the carotenoid contents. CaATHB-12 silencing increased the antioxidant enzyme activities in the fruits of pepper, exposed to cold stress, whereas CaATHB-12 overexpression decreased the activities of antioxidant enzymes in the transgenic Arabidopsis lines, exposed to cold stress, suggesting that CaATHB-12 is involved in the regulation of cold stress in the pepper fruits. Conclusion Our research will provide insights into the formation of fruit color in pepper and contribution of CaATHB-12 in response to cold stress. Further study should be focused on the interaction between CaATHB-12 and its target gene.
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- Rui-Xing Zhang
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China
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- Guizhou Institute of Pepper, Guiyang, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China
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- Department of Agriculture, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Paksitan
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, P.R. China
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Gai WX, Ma X, Li Y, Xiao JJ, Khan A, Li QH, Gong ZH. CaHsfA1d Improves Plant Thermotolerance via Regulating the Expression of Stress- and Antioxidant-Related Genes. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E8374. [PMID: 33171626 PMCID: PMC7672572 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21218374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Heat shock transcription factor (Hsf) plays an important role in regulating plant thermotolerance. The function and regulatory mechanism of CaHsfA1d in heat stress tolerance of pepper have not been reported yet. In this study, phylogenetic tree and sequence analyses confirmed that CaHsfA1d is a class A Hsf. CaHsfA1d harbored transcriptional function and predicted the aromatic, hydrophobic, and acidic (AHA) motif mediated function of CaHsfA1d as a transcription activator. Subcellular localization assay showed that CaHsfA1d protein is localized in the nucleus. The CaHsfA1d was transcriptionally up-regulated at high temperatures and its expression in the thermotolerant pepper line R9 was more sensitive than that in thermosensitive pepper line B6. The function of CaHsfA1d under heat stress was characterized in CaHsfA1d-silenced pepper plants and CaHsfA1d-overexpression Arabidopsis plants. Silencing of the CaHsfA1d reduced the thermotolerance of the pepper, while CaHsfA1d-overexpression Arabidopsis plants exhibited an increased insensitivity to high temperatures. Moreover, the CaHsfA1d maintained the H2O2 dynamic balance under heat stress and increased the expression of Hsfs, Hsps (heat shock protein), and antioxidant gene AtGSTU5 (glutathione S-transferase class tau 5) in transgenic lines. Our findings clearly indicate that CaHsfA1d improved the plant thermotolerance via regulating the expression of stress- and antioxidant-related genes.
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- Wen-Xian Gai
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (W.-X.G.); (X.M.); (Y.L.); (J.-J.X.)
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (W.-X.G.); (X.M.); (Y.L.); (J.-J.X.)
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (W.-X.G.); (X.M.); (Y.L.); (J.-J.X.)
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (W.-X.G.); (X.M.); (Y.L.); (J.-J.X.)
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- Department of Horticulture, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan;
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (W.-X.G.); (X.M.); (Y.L.); (J.-J.X.)
- Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (W.-X.G.); (X.M.); (Y.L.); (J.-J.X.)
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Jin J, Yang L, Fan D, Liu X, Hao Q. Comparative transcriptome analysis uncovers different heat stress responses in heat-resistant and heat-sensitive jujube cultivars. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0235763. [PMID: 32956359 PMCID: PMC7505471 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) is an economically and agriculturally significant fruit crop and is widely cultivated throughout the world. Heat stress has recently become a primary abiotic stressor limiting the productivity and growth of jujube, as well as other crops. There are few studies, however, that have performed transcriptome profiling of jujube when it is exposed to heat stress. In this study, we observed the physiochemical changes and analyzed gene expression profiles in resistant jujube cultivar ‘HR’ and sensitive cultivar ‘HS’ subjected to heat stress for 0, 1, 3, and 5d. Twenty-four cDNA libraries from ‘HR’ and ‘HS’ leaves were built with a transcriptome assay. A total of 6887 and 5077 differentially expressed genes were identified in ‘HR’ and ‘HS’ after 1d, 3d, and 5d of heat stress compared with the control treatment, GO and KEGG enrichment analysis revealed that some of the genes were highly enriched in oxidation-reduction process, response to stress, response to water deprivation, response to heat, carbon metabolism, protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum, and plant hormone signal transduction and may play vital roles in the heat stress response in jujube plants. Differentially expressed genes were identified in the two cultivars, including heat shock proteins, transcriptional factors, and ubiquitin-protein ligase genes. And the expression pattern of nine genes was also validated by qRT-PCR. These results will provide useful information for elucidating the molecular mechanism underlying heat stress in different jujube cultivars.
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- Juan Jin
- Institute of Horticultural crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Institute of Horticultural crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Institute of Horticultural crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Xinjiang Agricultural Vocational Technical College, Changji, China
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- Institute of Horticultural crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, China
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Nissim Y, Shlosberg M, Biton I, Many Y, Doron-Faigenboim A, Hovav R, Kerem Z, Avidan B, Ben-Ari G. A High Temperature Environment Regulates the Olive Oil Biosynthesis Network. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 9:plants9091135. [PMID: 32882997 PMCID: PMC7569966 DOI: 10.3390/plants9091135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Climate change has been shown to have a substantial impact on agriculture and high temperatures and heat stress are known to have many negative effects on the vegetative and reproductive phases of plants. In a previous study, we addressed the effects of high temperature environments on olive oil yield and quality, by comparing the fruit development and oil accumulation and quality of five olive cultivars placed in high temperature and moderate temperature environments. The aim of the current study was to explore the molecular mechanism resulting in the negative effect of a high temperature environment on oil quantity and quality. We analyzed the transcriptome of two extreme cultivars, 'Barnea', which is tolerant to high temperatures in regard to quantity of oil production, but sensitive regarding its quality, and 'Souri', which is heat sensitive regarding quantity of oil produced, but relatively tolerant regarding its quality. Transcriptome analyses have been carried out at three different time points during fruit development, focusing on the genes involved in the oil biosynthesis pathway. We found that heat-shock protein expression was induced by the high temperature environment, but the degree of induction was cultivar dependent. The 'Barnea' cultivar, whose oil production showed greater tolerance to high temperatures, exhibited a larger degree of induction than the heat sensitive 'Souri'. On the other hand, many genes involved in olive oil biosynthesis were found to be repressed as a response to high temperatures. OePDCT as well as OeFAD2 genes showed cultivar dependent expression patterns according to their heat tolerance characteristics. The transcription factors OeDof4.3, OeWRI1.1, OeDof4.4 and OeWRI1.2 were identified as key factors in regulating the oil biosynthesis pathway in response to heat stress, based on their co-expression characteristics with other genes involved in this pathway. Our results may contribute to identifying or developing a more heat tolerant cultivar, which will be able to produce high yield and quality oil in a future characterized by global warming.
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- Yael Nissim
- Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel; (Y.N.); (M.S.); (I.B.); (Y.M.); (A.D.-F.); (R.H.); (B.A.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel; (Y.N.); (M.S.); (I.B.); (Y.M.); (A.D.-F.); (R.H.); (B.A.)
- Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel;
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel; (Y.N.); (M.S.); (I.B.); (Y.M.); (A.D.-F.); (R.H.); (B.A.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel; (Y.N.); (M.S.); (I.B.); (Y.M.); (A.D.-F.); (R.H.); (B.A.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel; (Y.N.); (M.S.); (I.B.); (Y.M.); (A.D.-F.); (R.H.); (B.A.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel; (Y.N.); (M.S.); (I.B.); (Y.M.); (A.D.-F.); (R.H.); (B.A.)
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel;
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel; (Y.N.); (M.S.); (I.B.); (Y.M.); (A.D.-F.); (R.H.); (B.A.)
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7528809, Israel; (Y.N.); (M.S.); (I.B.); (Y.M.); (A.D.-F.); (R.H.); (B.A.)
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Hong Y, Ni SJ, Zhang GP. Transcriptome and metabolome analysis reveals regulatory networks and key genes controlling barley malting quality in responses to drought stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2020; 152:1-11. [PMID: 32361397 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2020] [Revised: 04/05/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Malting quality will be greatly deteriorated when barley plants suffer from post-anthesis drought stress, however there is a marked difference among barley genotypes in the responses of malting quality to drought stress, and the molecular mechanisms underlying the genotypic difference remain unclear. We made transcriptome and metabolome analysis on the developing grains of two barley genotypes differing in the responses to drought stress. Post-anthesis drought treatments led to decreased grain weight and β-glucan content, increased grain protein content and β-amylase activity. Drought stress enhanced H2O2 and heat-shock protein accumulation in the two barley genotypes, with the drought-tolerant genotype showing higher capacity of scavenging H2O2 and reducing misfolded protein accumulation than the drought-susceptible genotype. Moreover, the drought-tolerant genotype was more efficient in redistributing assimilates stored in the vegetative tissues into the developing grains. After re-watering to relieve drought stress, the drought-tolerant genotype can further modify auxin transport and ethylene signaling, enhancing redistribution of assimilates into grains. Transcriptome comparisons and weighted correlation network analysis (WGCNA) identified some key genes regulating the responses of malting quality traits to drought stress, such as RLK-LRR, β-glucosidase and HSP . In conclusion, less change of main malting quality traits in the drought-tolerant genotype under post-anthesis drought stress is attributed to its higher capacity of alleviating the stress injury through scavenging ROS and redistributing the metabolites stored in the vegetative organs into the developing grains.
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- Ye Hong
- Agronomy Department, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Agronomy Department, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China
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- Agronomy Department, Zhejiang Key Lab of Crop Germplasm, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
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Guo LM, Li J, He J, Liu H, Zhang HM. A class I cytosolic HSP20 of rice enhances heat and salt tolerance in different organisms. Sci Rep 2020; 10:1383. [PMID: 31992813 PMCID: PMC6987133 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58395-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) have been thought to function as chaperones, protecting their targets from denaturation and aggregation when organisms are subjected to various biotic and abiotic stresses. We previously reported an sHSP from Oryza sativa (OsHSP20) that homodimerizes and forms granules within the cytoplasm but its function was unclear. We now show that OsHSP20 transcripts were significantly up-regulated by heat shock and high salinity but not by drought. A recombinant protein was purified and shown to inhibit the thermal aggregation of the mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase (MDH) enzyme in vitro, and this molecular chaperone activity suggested that OsHSP20 might be involved in stress resistance. Heterologous expression of OsHSP20 in Escherichia coli or Pichia pastoris cells enhanced heat and salt stress tolerance when compared with the control cultures. Transgenic rice plants constitutively overexpressing OsHSP20 and exposed to heat and salt treatments had longer roots and higher germination rates than those of control plants. A series of assays using its truncated mutants showed that its N-terminal arm plus the ACD domain was crucial for its homodimerization, molecular chaperone activity in vitro, and stress tolerance in vivo. The results supported the viewpoint that OsHSP20 could confer heat and salt tolerance by its molecular chaperone activity in different organisms and also provided a more thorough characterization of HSP20-mediated stress tolerance in O. sativa.
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- Liu-Ming Guo
- Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, China.,College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China
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- Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, China
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- Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, China.,College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China
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- Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, China.,College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China
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- Institute of Virology and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, 310021, China. .,College of Chemistry and Life Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China.
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Haq SU, Khan A, Ali M, Gai WX, Zhang HX, Yu QH, Yang SB, Wei AM, Gong ZH. Knockdown of CaHSP60-6 confers enhanced sensitivity to heat stress in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). PLANTA 2019; 250:2127-2145. [PMID: 31606756 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-019-03290-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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HSP60 gene family in pepper was analyzed through bioinformatics along with transcriptional regulation against multiple abiotic and hormonal stresses. Furthermore, the knockdown of CaHSP60-6 increased sensitivity to heat stress. The 60 kDa heat shock protein (HSP60) also known as chaperonin (cpn60) is encoded by multi-gene family that plays an important role in plant growth, development and in stress response as a molecular chaperone. However, little is known about the HSP60 gene family in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). In this study, 16 putative pepper HSP60 genes were identified through bioinformatic tools. The phylogenetic tree revealed that eight of the pepper HSP60 genes (50%) clustered into group I, three (19%) into group II, and five (31%) into group III. Twelve (75%) CaHSP60 genes have more than 10 introns, while only a single gene contained no introns. Chromosomal mapping revealed that the tandem and segmental duplication events occurred in the process of evolution. Gene ontology enrichment analysis predicted that CaHSP60 genes were responsible for protein folding and refolding in an ATP-dependent manner in response to various stresses in the biological processes category. Multiple stress-related cis-regulatory elements were found in the promoter region of these CaHSP60 genes, which indicated that these genes were regulated in response to multiple stresses. Tissue-specific expression was studied under normal conditions and induced under 2 h of heat stress measured by RNA-Seq data and qRT-PCR in different tissues (roots, stems, leaves, and flowers). The data implied that HSP60 genes play a crucial role in pepper growth, development, and stress responses. Fifteen (93%) CaHSP60 genes were induced in both, thermo-sensitive B6 and thermo-tolerant R9 lines under heat treatment. The relative expression of nine representative CaHSP60 genes in response to other abiotic stresses (cold, NaCl, and mannitol) and hormonal applications [ABA, methyl jasmonate (MeJA), and salicylic acid (SA)] was also evaluated. Knockdown of CaHSP60-6 increased the sensitivity to heat shock treatment as documented by a higher relative electrolyte leakage, lipid peroxidation, and reactive oxygen species accumulation in silenced pepper plants along with a substantial lower chlorophyll content and antioxidant enzyme activity. These results suggested that HSP60 might act as a positive regulator in pepper defense against heat and other abiotic stresses. Our results provide a basis for further functional analysis of HSP60 genes in pepper.
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- Saeed Ul Haq
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Horticulture Crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, 830091, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Horticulture Crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, 830091, People's Republic of China
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- Tianjin Vegetable Research Center, Tianjin, 300192, People's Republic of China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Innovation, Tianjin, 300384, People's Republic of China.
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ul Haq S, Khan A, Ali M, Khattak AM, Gai WX, Zhang HX, Wei AM, Gong ZH. Heat Shock Proteins: Dynamic Biomolecules to Counter Plant Biotic and Abiotic Stresses. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E5321. [PMID: 31731530 PMCID: PMC6862505 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20215321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Due to the present scenario of climate change, plants have to evolve strategies to survive and perform under a plethora of biotic and abiotic stresses, which restrict plant productivity. Maintenance of plant protein functional conformation and preventing non-native proteins from aggregation, which leads to metabolic disruption, are of prime importance. Plant heat shock proteins (HSPs), as chaperones, play a pivotal role in conferring biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. Moreover, HSP also enhances membrane stability and detoxifies the reactive oxygen species (ROS) by positively regulating the antioxidant enzymes system. Additionally, it uses ROS as a signal to molecules to induce HSP production. HSP also enhances plant immunity by the accumulation and stability of pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins under various biotic stresses. Thus, to unravel the entire plant defense system, the role of HSPs are discussed with a special focus on plant response to biotic and abiotic stresses, which will be helpful in the development of stress tolerance in plant crops.
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- Saeed ul Haq
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.u.H.); (A.K.); (M.A.); (W.-X.G.); (H.-X.Z.)
- Department of Horticulture, University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar 25130, Pakistan;
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.u.H.); (A.K.); (M.A.); (W.-X.G.); (H.-X.Z.)
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.u.H.); (A.K.); (M.A.); (W.-X.G.); (H.-X.Z.)
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- Department of Horticulture, University of Agriculture Peshawar, Peshawar 25130, Pakistan;
- College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.u.H.); (A.K.); (M.A.); (W.-X.G.); (H.-X.Z.)
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.u.H.); (A.K.); (M.A.); (W.-X.G.); (H.-X.Z.)
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- Tianjin Vegetable Research Center, Tianjin 300192, China;
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China; (S.u.H.); (A.K.); (M.A.); (W.-X.G.); (H.-X.Z.)
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Innovation, Tianjin 300384, China
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Singh B, Salaria N, Thakur K, Kukreja S, Gautam S, Goutam U. Functional genomic approaches to improve crop plant heat stress tolerance. F1000Res 2019; 8:1721. [PMID: 31824669 PMCID: PMC6896246 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.19840.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Heat stress as a yield limiting issue has become a major threat for food security as global warming progresses. Being sessile, plants cannot avoid heat stress. They respond to heat stress by activating complex molecular networks, such as signal transduction, metabolite production and expressions of heat stress-associated genes. Some plants have developed an intricate signalling network to respond and adapt it. Heat stress tolerance is a polygenic trait, which is regulated by various genes, transcriptional factors, proteins and hormones. Therefore, to improve heat stress tolerance, a sound knowledge of various mechanisms involved in the response to heat stress is required. The classical breeding methods employed to enhance heat stress tolerance has had limited success. In this era of genomics, next generation sequencing techniques, availability of genome sequences and advanced biotechnological tools open several windows of opportunities to improve heat stress tolerance in crop plants. This review discusses the potential of various functional genomic approaches, such as genome wide association studies, microarray, and suppression subtractive hybridization, in the process of discovering novel genes related to heat stress, and their functional validation using both reverse and forward genetic approaches. This review also discusses how these functionally validated genes can be used to improve heat stress tolerance through plant breeding, transgenics and genome editing approaches.
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- Baljeet Singh
- Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India
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- Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India
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- Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India
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- School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Jalandhar, 144411, India
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- Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India
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- Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, 144411, India
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Feng XH, Zhang HX, Ali M, Gai WX, Cheng GX, Yu QH, Yang SB, Li XX, Gong ZH. A small heat shock protein CaHsp25.9 positively regulates heat, salt, and drought stress tolerance in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2019; 142:151-162. [PMID: 31284139 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Revised: 06/22/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Extreme environmental conditions seriously affect crop growth and development, resulting in a decrease in crop yield and quality. However, small heat shock proteins (Hsp20s) play an important role in helping plants to avoid these negative impacts. In this study, we identified the expression pattern of the CaHsp25.9 gene in a thermo-tolerance pepper line R9 and thermo-sensitive line B6. The transcription of CaHsp25.9 was strongly induced by heat stress in both R9 and B6. The expression of CaHsp25.9 was induced by salt and drought stress in R9. Additionally, the CaHsp25.9 protein was localized in the cell membrane and cytoplasm. When silencing the CaHsp25.9 gene in the R9 line, the accumulation of malonaldehyde (MDA), relative electrolytic leakage, hydrogen peroxide, superoxide anion were increased, while total chlorophyll decreased under heat, salt, and drought stress. Over-expression of CaHsp25.9 in Arabidopsis resulted in decreased MDA, while proline, superoxide dismutase activity, germination, and root length increased under heat, salt, and drought stress. However, peroxidase activity was higher in drought stress but lower in heat and salt stress in transgenic Arabidopsis compared to the wild type (WT). Furthermore, the transcription of stress related genes was more highly induced in transgenic lines than WT. Our results indicated that CaHsp25.9 confers heat, salt, and drought stress tolerance to plants by reducing the accumulation of reactive oxygen species, enhancing the activity of antioxidant enzymes, and regulating the expression of stress-related genes. Therefore, these results may provide insight into plant adaption mechanisms developed in variable environments.
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- Xiao-Hui Feng
- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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- Institute of Horticulture Crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, 830091, PR China
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- Institute of Horticulture Crops, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Urumqi, 830091, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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- College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China.
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He M, He CQ, Ding NZ. Abiotic Stresses: General Defenses of Land Plants and Chances for Engineering Multistress Tolerance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:1771. [PMID: 30581446 PMCID: PMC6292871 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Abiotic stresses, such as low or high temperature, deficient or excessive water, high salinity, heavy metals, and ultraviolet radiation, are hostile to plant growth and development, leading to great crop yield penalty worldwide. It is getting imperative to equip crops with multistress tolerance to relieve the pressure of environmental changes and to meet the demand of population growth, as different abiotic stresses usually arise together in the field. The feasibility is raised as land plants actually have established more generalized defenses against abiotic stresses, including the cuticle outside plants, together with unsaturated fatty acids, reactive species scavengers, molecular chaperones, and compatible solutes inside cells. In stress response, they are orchestrated by a complex regulatory network involving upstream signaling molecules including stress hormones, reactive oxygen species, gasotransmitters, polyamines, phytochromes, and calcium, as well as downstream gene regulation factors, particularly transcription factors. In this review, we aimed at presenting an overview of these defensive systems and the regulatory network, with an eye to their practical potential via genetic engineering and/or exogenous application.
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- College of Life Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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