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Khatun N, Shinozawa A, Takahashi K, Matsuura H, Jahan A, Islam M, Karim M, Sk R, Yoshikawa M, Ishizaki K, Sakata Y, Takezawa D. Abscisic acid-mediated sugar responses are essential for vegetative desiccation tolerance in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2023; 175:e13898. [PMID: 36974502 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Low-molecular-weight sugars serve as protectants for cellular membranes and macromolecules under the condition of dehydration caused by environmental stress such as desiccation and freezing. These sugars also affect plant growth and development by provoking internal signaling pathways. We previously showed that both sugars and the stress hormone abscisic acid (ABA) enhance desiccation tolerance of gemma, a dormant propagule of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. To determine the role of ABA in sugar responses in liverworts, we generated genome-editing lines of M. polymorpha ABA DEFICIENT 1 (MpABA1) encoding zeaxanthin epoxidase, which catalyzes the initial reaction toward ABA biosynthesis. The generated Mpaba1 lines that accumulated only a trace amount of endogenous ABA showed reduced desiccation tolerance and reduced sugar responses. RNA-seq analysis of sucrose-treated gemmalings of M. polymorpha revealed that expression of a large part of sucrose-induced genes was reduced in Mpaba1 compared to the wild-type. Furthermore, Mpaba1 accumulated smaller amounts of low-molecular-weight sugars in tissues upon sucrose treatment than the wild-type, with reduced expression of genes for sucrose synthesis, sugar transporters, and starch-catabolizing enzymes. These results indicate that endogenous ABA plays a role in the regulation of the positive feedback loop for sugar-induced sugar accumulation in liverworts, enabling the tissue to have desiccation tolerance.
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- Nobiza Khatun
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Nutritional Science, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Fundamental, AgriScience Research, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
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Khan TA, Fariduddin Q, Yusuf M. Low-temperature stress: is phytohormones application a remedy? ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2017; 24:21574-21590. [PMID: 28831664 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-017-9948-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Among the various abiotic stresses, low temperature is one of the major environmental constraints that limit the plant development and crop productivity. Plants are able to adapt to low-temperature stress through the changes in membrane composition and activation of reactive oxygen scavenging systems. The genetic pathway induced due to temperature downshift is based on C-repeat-binding factors (CBF) which activate promoters through the C-repeat (CRT) cis-element. Calcium entry is a major signalling event occurring immediately after a downshift in temperature. The increase in the level of cytosolic calcium activates many enzymes, such as phospholipases and calcium dependent-protein kinases. MAP-kinase module has been shown to be involved in the cold response. Ultimately, the activation of these signalling pathways leads to changes in the transcriptome. Several phytohormones, such as abscisic acid, brassinosteroids, auxin, salicylic acid, gibberellic acid, cytokinins and jasmonic acid, have been shown to play key roles in regulating the plant development under low-temperature stress. These phytohormones modulate important events involved in tolerance to low-temperature stress in plants. Better understanding of these events and genes controlling these could open new strategies for improving tolerance mediated by phytohormones.
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- Tanveer Alam Khan
- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India
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- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India.
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- Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India
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Wang H, Zou Z, Wang S, Gong M. Global analysis of transcriptome responses and gene expression profiles to cold stress of Jatropha curcas L. PLoS One 2013; 8:e82817. [PMID: 24349370 PMCID: PMC3857291 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 10/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Jatropha curcas L., also called the Physic nut, is an oil-rich shrub with multiple uses, including biodiesel production, and is currently exploited as a renewable energy resource in many countries. Nevertheless, because of its origin from the tropical MidAmerican zone, J. curcas confers an inherent but undesirable characteristic (low cold resistance) that may seriously restrict its large-scale popularization. This adaptive flaw can be genetically improved by elucidating the mechanisms underlying plant tolerance to cold temperatures. The newly developed Illumina Hiseq™ 2000 RNA-seq and Digital Gene Expression (DGE) are deep high-throughput approaches for gene expression analysis at the transcriptome level, using which we carefully investigated the gene expression profiles in response to cold stress to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms of cold response in J. curcas. RESULTS In total, 45,251 unigenes were obtained by assembly of clean data generated by RNA-seq analysis of the J. curcas transcriptome. A total of 33,363 and 912 complete or partial coding sequences (CDSs) were determined by protein database alignments and ESTScan prediction, respectively. Among these unigenes, more than 41.52% were involved in approximately 128 known metabolic or signaling pathways, and 4,185 were possibly associated with cold resistance. DGE analysis was used to assess the changes in gene expression when exposed to cold condition (12°C) for 12, 24, and 48 h. The results showed that 3,178 genes were significantly upregulated and 1,244 were downregulated under cold stress. These genes were then functionally annotated based on the transcriptome data from RNA-seq analysis. CONCLUSIONS This study provides a global view of transcriptome response and gene expression profiling of J. curcas in response to cold stress. The results can help improve our current understanding of the mechanisms underlying plant cold resistance and favor the screening of crucial genes for genetically enhancing cold resistance in J. curcas.
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- Haibo Wang
- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, P. R. China
- College of Biological Resources and Environmental Science, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, P. R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Development and Utilization of Biomass Energy, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Biomass Energy and Environmental Biotechnology of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, P. R. China
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Bhyan SB, Minami A, Kaneko Y, Suzuki S, Arakawa K, Sakata Y, Takezawa D. Cold acclimation in the moss Physcomitrella patens involves abscisic acid-dependent signaling. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 169:137-45. [PMID: 21958596 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2011] [Revised: 08/27/2011] [Accepted: 08/27/2011] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Overwintering plants develop tolerance to freezing stress through a cold acclimation process by which the cells provoke internal protective mechanisms against freezing. The stress hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is known to increase freezing tolerance of plant cells, but its role in cold acclimation has not been determined. In this study, we used ABA-insensitive lines of the moss Physcomitrella patens to determine whether cold acclimation in bryophytes involves an ABA-dependent process. Two ABA-insensitive lines, both impaired in ABA signaling without showing ABA-induced stress tolerance, were subjected to cold acclimation, and changes in freezing tolerance and accumulation of soluble sugars and proteins were compared to the wild type. The wild-type cells acquired freezing tolerance in response to cold acclimation treatment, but very little increase in freezing tolerance was observed in the ABA-insensitive lines. Analysis of low-molecular-weight soluble sugars indicated that the ABA-insensitive lines accumulated sucrose, a major compatible solute in bryophytes, to levels comparable with those of the wild type during cold acclimation. However, accumulation of the trisaccharide theanderose and of specific LEA-like boiling-soluble proteins was very limited in the ABA-insensitive lines. Furthermore, analysis of cold-induced expression of genes encoding LEA-like proteins revealed that the ABA-insensitive lines accumulate only small amounts of these transcripts during cold acclimation. Our results indicate that cold acclimation of bryophytes requires an ABA-dependent signaling process. The results also suggest that cold-induced sugar accumulation, depending on the sugar species, can either be dependent or independent of the ABA-signaling pathway.
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- Salma Begum Bhyan
- Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Japan
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Yaish MWF, Doxey AC, McConkey BJ, Moffatt BA, Griffith M. Cold-active winter rye glucanases with ice-binding capacity. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 141:1459-72. [PMID: 16815958 PMCID: PMC1533947 DOI: 10.1104/pp.106.081935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Extracellular pathogenesis-related proteins, including glucanases, are expressed at cold temperatures in winter rye (Secale cereale) and display antifreeze activity. We have characterized recombinant cold-induced glucanases from winter rye to further examine their roles and contributions to cold tolerance. Both basic beta-1,3-glucanases and an acidic beta-1,3;1,4-glucanase were expressed in Escherichia coli, purified, and assayed for their hydrolytic and antifreeze activities in vitro. All were found to be cold active and to retain partial hydrolytic activity at subzero temperatures (e.g. 14%-35% at -4 degrees C). The two types of glucanases had antifreeze activity as measured by their ability to modify the growth of ice crystals. Structural models for the winter rye beta-1,3-glucanases were developed on which putative ice-binding surfaces (IBSs) were identified. Residues on the putative IBSs were charge conserved for each of the expressed glucanases, with the exception of one beta-1,3-glucanase recovered from nonacclimated winter rye in which a charged amino acid was present on the putative IBS. This protein also had a reduced antifreeze activity relative to the other expressed glucanases. These results support the hypothesis that winter rye glucanases have evolved to inhibit the formation of large, potentially fatal ice crystals, in addition to having enzymatic activity with a potential role in resisting infection by psychrophilic pathogens. Glucanases of winter rye provide an interesting example of protein evolution and adaptation aimed to combat cold and freezing conditions.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Cloning, Molecular
- Endo-1,3(4)-beta-Glucanase/chemistry
- Endo-1,3(4)-beta-Glucanase/genetics
- Endo-1,3(4)-beta-Glucanase/metabolism
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Evolution, Molecular
- Freezing
- Glucan 1,3-beta-Glucosidase/chemistry
- Glucan 1,3-beta-Glucosidase/genetics
- Glucan 1,3-beta-Glucosidase/metabolism
- Ice/analysis
- Immunity, Innate
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Plant Proteins/chemistry
- Plant Proteins/genetics
- Plant Proteins/metabolism
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Seasons
- Secale/enzymology
- Secale/genetics
- Secale/physiology
- Sequence Alignment
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- Mahmoud W F Yaish
- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1.
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Wong BL, Staats LJ, Burfeind AS, Baggett KL, Rye AH. Carbohydrate reserves in Acer saccharum trees damaged during the January 1998 ice storm in northern New York. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1139/b05-041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To assess the effect of the ice storm of January 1998 on sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) tree health, starch, and soluble sugars in twigs from two damaged sugarbushes (younger: trees 50100 years old, and older: trees approximately 200 years old) in northern New York were measured throughout the leafless phase (September 1998 May 1999). Trees severely damaged by the ice storm exhibited signs of recovery during the first growth season (1998), that is, greater numbers of lateral (epicormic) shoots and increased wood production in the current year growth ring of branches at mid-crown, and high concentrations of starch in the twigs at the time of leaf drop. Differences in reserve and soluble sugar profiles between damaged and slightly damaged or undamaged sugar maple trees and between trees of the older sugarbush and those of the younger sugarbush indicate changes in cold season physiology of damaged trees in adapting to or tolerating cold temperature. In damaged trees of the younger and older sugarbushes, the profiles of sucrose, stachyose, raffinose, and xylose were similar to those of corresponding slightly damaged or undamaged trees throughout the cold season, except for late winter sucrose, glucose, and fructose profiles, which exhibited differences in concentration and profile configurations compared with respective slightly damaged or undamaged trees. A lower concentration of sucrose in damaged older tree wood tissue after dehardening in late winter and a lower concentration of "resynthesized" starch just prior to vernal growth were observed. The data indicate that the profiles of individual sugars can provide information on changes in physiological and biochemical processes in damaged trees during the cold season.Key words: starch, sucrose, glucose, fructose, raffinose, stachyose.
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Yano R, Nakamura M, Yoneyama T, Nishida I. Starch-related alpha-glucan/water dikinase is involved in the cold-induced development of freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2005; 138:837-46. [PMID: 15894744 PMCID: PMC1150401 DOI: 10.1104/pp.104.056374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Cold-induced soluble sugar accumulation enhances the degree of freezing tolerance in various cold-hardy plants including Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), where soluble sugars accumulate in only a few hours at 2 degrees C. Hence, along with photosynthesis, starch degradation might play a significant role in cold-induced sugar accumulation and enhanced freezing tolerance. Starch-related alpha-glucan/water dikinase (EC 2.7.9.4), encoded by Arabidopsis STARCH EXCESS 1 (SEX1), is hypothesized to regulate starch degradation in plastids by phosphorylating starch, thereby ensuring better accessibility by starch-degrading enzymes. Here, we show that Arabidopsis sex1 mutants, when incubated at 2 degrees C for 1 d, were unable to accumulate maltooligosaccharides or normal glucose and fructose levels. In addition, they displayed impaired freezing tolerance. After 7 d at 2 degrees C, sex1 mutants did not show any of the above abnormal phenotypes but displayed slightly higher leaf starch contents. The impaired freezing tolerance of sex1 mutants was restored by overexpression of wild-type SEX1 cDNA using the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter. The results demonstrate a genetic link between the SEX1 locus and plant freezing tolerance, and show that starch degradation is important for enhanced freezing tolerance during an early phase of cold acclimation. However, induction of starch degradation was not accompanied by significant changes in alpha-glucan/water dikinase activity in leaf extracts and preceded cold-induced augmentation of SEX1 transcripts. Therefore, we conclude that augmentation of SEX1 transcripts might be a homeostatic response to low temperature, and that starch degradation during an early phase of cold acclimation could be regulated by a component(s) of a starch degradation pathway(s) downstream of SEX1.
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- Ryoichi Yano
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Wong BL, Baggett KL, Rye AH. Seasonal patterns of reserve and soluble carbohydrates in mature sugar maple (Acer saccharum). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1139/b03-079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) trees exhibit seasonal patterns of production, accumulation, and utilization of nonstructural carbohydrates that are closely correlated with phenological events and (or) physiological processes. The simultaneous seasonal patterns of both reserve and soluble carbohydrates in the leaves, twigs, branches, and trunks of healthy mature sugar maple trees were characterized. The concentrations of starch and soluble sugars ( sucrose, glucose, fructose, xylose, raffinose, and stachyose) were determined. Starch, the major reserve carbohydrate in sugar maple, is low during the active photosynthetic growth season. Starch is accumulated in the xylem ray tissues in late summer and early fall. During the cold season, there is a close relationship between starch hydrolysisaccumulation and temperature. Soluble sugars increase when starch concentrations decrease during the cold months, and these sugars may play a role in cold tolerance. Patterns of change in the stem tissues are similar to those in the root tissues but with slight differences in the timing.Key words: starch, sucrose, glucose, fructose, raffinose, stachyose.
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Uemura M, Warren G, Steponkus PL. Freezing sensitivity in the sfr4 mutant of Arabidopsis is due to low sugar content and is manifested by loss of osmotic responsiveness. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 131:1800-7. [PMID: 12692339 PMCID: PMC166936 DOI: 10.1104/pp.102.013227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2002] [Revised: 09/07/2002] [Accepted: 12/31/2002] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Protoplasts were tested to determine whether the freezing sensitivity of the sfr4 (sensitive to freezing) mutant of Arabidopsis was due to the mutant's deficiency in soluble sugars after cold acclimation. When grown under nonacclimated conditions, sfr4 protoplasts possessed freezing tolerance similar to that of wild type, with the temperature at which 50% of protoplasts are injured (LT(50)) of -4.5 degrees C. In both wild-type and sfr4 protoplasts, expansion-induced lysis was the predominant lesion between -2 degrees C and -4 degrees C, but its incidence was low (approximately 10%); below -5 degrees C, loss of osmotic responsiveness (LOR) was the predominant lesion. After cold acclimation, the LT(50) was decreased to only -5.6 degrees C for sfr4 protoplasts, compared with -9.1 degrees C for wild-type protoplasts. Although expansion-induced lysis was precluded in both types of protoplasts, the sfr4 protoplasts remained susceptible to LOR. After incubation of seedlings in Suc solution in the dark at 2 degrees C, freezing tolerance and the incidence of freeze-induced lesions in sfr4 protoplasts were examined. The freezing tolerance of isolated protoplasts (LT(50) of -9 degrees C) and the incidence of LOR were now similar for wild type and sfr4. These results indicate that the freezing sensitivity of cold-acclimated sfr4 is due to its continued susceptibility to LOR (associated with lyotropic formation of the hexagonal II phase) and associated with the low sugar content of its cells.
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- Matsuo Uemura
- Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
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Siminovitch D, Cloutier Y. Drought and freezing tolerance and adaptation in plants: some evidence of near equivalences. Cryobiology 1983; 20:487-503. [PMID: 6617235 DOI: 10.1016/0011-2240(83)90037-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Yelenosky G, Guy CL. Protein scans of cold-hardened and freeze-injured "Valencia" orange leaves. Cryobiology 1982; 19:646-50. [PMID: 7151461 DOI: 10.1016/0011-2240(82)90194-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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