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Guo J, Yang Y, Wang T, Wang Y, Zhang X, Min D, Zhang X. Analysis of Raffinose Synthase Gene Family in Bread Wheat and Identification of Drought Resistance and Salt Tolerance Function of TaRS15-3B. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:11185. [PMID: 37446364 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241311185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2023] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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Raffinose synthase (RS) plays a crucial role in plant growth and development, as well as in responses to biotic stresses and abiotic stresses, yet few studies have been conducted on its role in bread wheat. Therefore, in this study we screened and identified a family of bread wheat raffinose synthase genes based on bread wheat genome information and analyzed their physicochemical properties, phylogenetic evolutionary relationships, conserved structural domains, promoter cis-acting elements, and expression patterns. The BSMV-induced silencing of TaRS15-3B resulted in the bread wheat seedlings being susceptible to drought and salt stress and reduced the expression levels of stress-related and ROS-scavenging genes in bread wheat plants. This further affected the ability of bread wheat to cope with drought and salt stress. In conclusion, this study revealed that the RS gene family in bread wheat plays an important role in plant response to abiotic stresses and that the TaRS15-3B gene can improve the tolerance of transgenic bread wheat to drought and salt stresses, provide directions for the study of other RS gene families in bread wheat, and supply candidate genes for use in molecular breeding of bread wheat for stress resistance.
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- Jiagui Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
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Xu J, You X, Leng Y, Li Y, Lu Z, Huang Y, Chen M, Zhang J, Song T, Liu T. Identification and Alternative Splicing Profile of the Raffinose synthase Gene in Grass Species. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:11120. [PMID: 37446297 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241311120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/02/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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Raffinose synthase (Rafs) is an important enzyme in the synthesis pathway of raffinose from sucrose and galactinol in higher plants and is involved in the regulation of seed development and plant responses to abiotic stresses. In this study, we analyzed the Rafs families and profiled their alternative splicing patterns at the genome-wide scale from 10 grass species representing crops and grasses. A total of 73 Rafs genes were identified from grass species such as rice, maize, foxtail millet, and switchgrass. These Rafs genes were assigned to six groups based the phylogenetic analysis. We compared the gene structures, protein domains, and expression patterns of Rafs genes, and also unraveled the alternative transcripts of them. In addition, different conserved sequences were observed at these putative splice sites among grass species. The subcellular localization of PvRafs5 suggested that the Rafs gene was expressed in the cytoplasm or cell membrane. Our findings provide comprehensive knowledge of the Rafs families in terms of genes and proteins, which will facilitate further functional characterization in grass species in response to abiotic stress.
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- Junhao Xu
- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210000, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210000, China
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- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
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- Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210000, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
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Lindsay RJ, Holder PJ, Talbot NJ, Gudelj I. Metabolic efficiency reshapes the seminal relationship between pathogen growth rate and virulence. Ecol Lett 2023; 26:896-907. [PMID: 37056166 PMCID: PMC10947253 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14218] [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: 11/16/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/15/2023]
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A cornerstone of classical virulence evolution theories is the assumption that pathogen growth rate is positively correlated with virulence, the amount of damage pathogens inflict on their hosts. Such theories are key for incorporating evolutionary principles into sustainable disease management strategies. Yet, empirical evidence raises doubts over this central assumption underpinning classical theories, thus undermining their generality and predictive power. In this paper, we identify a key component missing from current theories which redefines the growth-virulence relationship in a way that is consistent with data. By modifying the activity of a single metabolic gene, we engineered strains of Magnaporthe oryzae with different nutrient acquisition and growth rates. We conducted in planta infection studies and uncovered an unexpected non-monotonic relationship between growth rate and virulence that is jointly shaped by how growth rate and metabolic efficiency interact. This novel mechanistic framework paves the way for a much-needed new suite of virulence evolution theories.
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- The Sainsbury LaboratoryUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich Research ParkNorwichUK
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- Biosciences and Living Systems InstituteUniversity of ExeterExeterUK
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Lahuta LB, Górecki RJ, Szablińska-Piernik J, Horbowicz M. Changes in the Carbohydrate Profile in Common Buckwheat ( Fagopyrum esculentum Moench) Seedlings Induced by Cold Stress and Dehydration. Metabolites 2023; 13:metabo13050672. [PMID: 37233712 DOI: 10.3390/metabo13050672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 05/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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Plant species are sensitive to stresses, especially at the seedling stage, and they respond to these conditions by making metabolic changes to counteract the negative effects of this. The objectives of this study were to determine carbohydrate profile in particular organs (roots, hypocotyl, and cotyledons) of common buckwheat seedlings and to verify whether carbohydrate accumulation is similar or not in the organs in response to cold stress and dehydration. Roots, hypocotyl, and cotyledons of common buckwheat seedlings have various saccharide compositions. The highest concentrations of cyclitols, raffinose, and stachyose were found in the hypocotyl, indicating that they may be transported from cotyledons, although this needs further studies. Accumulation of raffinose and stachyose is a strong indicator of the response of all buckwheat organs to introduced cold stress. Besides, cold conditions reduced d-chiro-inositol content, but did not affect d-pinitol level. Enhanced accumulation of raffinose and stachyose were also a distinct response of all organs against dehydration at ambient temperature. The process causes also a large decrease in the content of d-pinitol in buckwheat hypocotyl, which may indicate its transformation to d-chiro-inositol whose content increased at that time. In general, the sucrose and its galactosides in hypocotyl tissues were subject to the highest changes to the applied cold and dehydration conditions compared to the cotyledons and roots. This may indicate tissue differences in the functioning of the protective system(s) against such threats.
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- Lesław B Lahuta
- Department of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Oczapowskiego 1a, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Oczapowskiego 1a, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Oczapowskiego 1a, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Oczapowskiego 1a, 10-719 Olsztyn, Poland
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Teper‐Bamnolker P, Roitman M, Katar O, Peleg N, Aruchamy K, Suher S, Doron‐Faigenboim A, Leibman D, Omid A, Belausov E, Andersson M, Olsson N, Fält A, Volpin H, Hofvander P, Gal‐On A, Eshel D. An alternative pathway to plant cold tolerance in the absence of vacuolar invertase activity. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2023; 113:327-341. [PMID: 36448213 PMCID: PMC10107833 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/20/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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To cope with cold stress, plants have developed antioxidation strategies combined with osmoprotection by sugars. In potato (Solanum tuberosum) tubers, which are swollen stems, exposure to cold stress induces starch degradation and sucrose synthesis. Vacuolar acid invertase (VInv) activity is a significant part of the cold-induced sweetening (CIS) response, by rapidly cleaving sucrose into hexoses and increasing osmoprotection. To discover alternative plant tissue pathways for coping with cold stress, we produced VInv-knockout lines in two cultivars. Genome editing of VInv in 'Désirée' and 'Brooke' was done using stable and transient expression of CRISPR/Cas9 components, respectively. After storage at 4°C, sugar analysis indicated that the knockout lines showed low levels of CIS and maintained low acid invertase activity in storage. Surprisingly, the tuber parenchyma of vinv lines exhibited significantly reduced lipid peroxidation and reduced H2 O2 levels. Furthermore, whole plants of vinv lines exposed to cold stress without irrigation showed normal vigor, in contrast to WT plants, which wilted. Transcriptome analysis of vinv lines revealed upregulation of an osmoprotectant pathway and ethylene-related genes during cold temperature exposure. Accordingly, higher expression of antioxidant-related genes was detected after exposure to short and long cold storage. Sugar measurements showed an elevation of an alternative pathway in the absence of VInv activity, raising the raffinose pathway with increasing levels of myo-inositol content as a cold tolerance response.
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- Paula Teper‐Bamnolker
- Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
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- Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
- The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in AgricultureThe Hebrew University of JerusalemRehovot76100Israel
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- Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
- The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in AgricultureThe Hebrew University of JerusalemRehovot76100Israel
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- Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
- The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in AgricultureThe Hebrew University of JerusalemRehovot76100Israel
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- Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
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- Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
- The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in AgricultureThe Hebrew University of JerusalemRehovot76100Israel
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- Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
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- Danziger Innovations LimitedMishmar HashivaIsrael
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- Department of Ornamental Horticulture, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
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- Department of Plant BreedingSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesAlnarpSweden
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- Department of Plant BreedingSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesAlnarpSweden
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- Department of Plant BreedingSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesAlnarpSweden
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- Danziger Innovations LimitedMishmar HashivaIsrael
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- Department of Plant BreedingSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesAlnarpSweden
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- Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
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- Department of Postharvest Science, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)The Volcani InstituteRishon LeZionIsrael
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Wang T, Wang Y, Zhao J, Kong J, Zhang L, Qi S, Chen J, Chen Z, Zeng W, Sun W. Identification, Characterization and Expression Profiling of the RS Gene Family during the Withering Process of White Tea in the Tea Plant ( Camellia sinensis) Reveal the Transcriptional Regulation of CsRS8. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 24:ijms24010202. [PMID: 36613645 PMCID: PMC9820808 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24010202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Revised: 12/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Raffinose synthetase (RS) is a key enzyme in the process of raffinose (Raf) synthesis and is involved in plant development and stress responses through regulating Raf content. As a sweetener, Raf makes an important contribution to the sweet taste of white tea. However, studies on the identification, analysis and transcriptional regulation of CsRSs (Camellia sinensis RS genes) are still lacking. In this study, nine CsRSs were identified from the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) genome database. The CsRSs were classified into five groups in the phylogenetic tree. Expression level analysis showed that the CsRSs varied in different parts of the tea plant. Transcriptome data showed that CsRSs could respond to persistent drought and cold acclimation. Except for CsRS5 and CsRS9, the expression pattern of all CsRSs increased at 12 h and decreased at 30 h during the withering process of white tea, consistent with the change trend of the Raf content. Furthermore, combining yeast one-hybrid assays with expression analysis, we found that CsDBB could potentially regulate the expression of CsRS8. Our results provide a new perspective for further research into the characterization of CsRS genes and the formation of the white tea flavour.
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- Tao Wang
- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Anxi College of Tea Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Quanzhou 362000, China
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Correspondence: (W.Z.); (W.S.)
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- College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Correspondence: (W.Z.); (W.S.)
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Primo-Capella A, Forner-Giner MÁ, Martínez-Cuenca MR, Terol J. Comparative transcriptomic analyses of citrus cold-resistant vs. sensitive rootstocks might suggest a relevant role of ABA signaling in triggering cold scion adaption. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 22:209. [PMID: 35448939 PMCID: PMC9027863 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03578-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/04/2022] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND The citrus genus comprises a number of sensitive tropical and subtropical species to cold stress, which limits global citrus distribution to certain latitudes and causes major economic loss. We used RNA-Seq technology to analyze changes in the transcriptome of Valencia delta seedless orange in response to long-term cold stress grafted on two frequently used citrus rootstocks: Carrizo citrange (CAR), considered one of the most cold-tolerant accessions; C. macrophylla (MAC), a very sensitive one. Our objectives were to identify the genetic mechanism that produce the tolerant or sensitive phenotypes in citrus, as well as to gain insights of the rootstock-scion interactions that induce the cold tolerance or sensitivity in the scion. RESULTS Plants were kept at 1 ºC for 30 days. Samples were taken at 0, 15 and 30 days. The metabolomic analysis showed a significant increase in the concentration of free sugars and proline, which was higher for the CAR plants. Hormone quantification in roots showed a substantially increased ABA concentration during cold exposure in the CAR roots, which was not observed in MAC. Different approaches were followed to analyze gene expression. During the stress treatment, the 0-15-day comparison yielded the most DEGs. The functional characterization of DEGs showed enrichment in GO terms and KEGG pathways related to abiotic stress responses previously described in plant cold adaption. The DEGs analysis revealed that several key genes promoting cold adaption were up-regulated in the CAR plants, and those repressing it had higher expression levels in the MAC samples. CONCLUSIONS The metabolomic and transcriptomic study herein performed indicates that the mechanisms activated in plants shortly after cold exposure remain active in the long term. Both the hormone quantification and differential expression analysis suggest that ABA signaling might play a relevant role in promoting the cold hardiness or sensitiveness of Valencia sweet orange grafted onto Carrizo citrange or Macrophylla rootstocks, respectively. Our work provides new insights into the mechanisms by which rootstocks modulate resistance to abiotic stress in the production variety grafted onto them.
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- Amparo Primo-Capella
- Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Valencia, Spain.
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- Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Citricultura y Producción Vegetal, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Valencia, Spain
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- Centro de Genómica, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Valencia, Spain
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Duan G, Ma X, Shi Z, Yang Y, Chen H, Huang Q, Yang J. MoSDT1 triggers defense response through modulating phosphorylated proteins in rice. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2022; 108:15-30. [PMID: 34622380 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-021-01201-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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MoSDT1, a rice blast fungus transcription factor, is as an inducer to activate defense response through mainly mediating phosphorylated proteins in rice. Pathogen effector proteins play a dual role in infecting the host or triggering a defense response. Our previous research found a Magnaporthe oryzae effector, MoSDT1, which could activate the rice defense response when it was overexpressed in rice. However, we still know little about the mechanisms on how MoSDT1 in vivo or in vitro influences the resistance ability of rice. Our results showed that decreased ROS and increased lignin contents appeared along with significant upregulation of defense-related genes, raffinose synthesis gene, and phenylalanine ammonialyase gene. Moreover, we revealed that the contents of lignin were increased, which was in accordance with the upregulation of its precursor phenylalanine gene despite the fact that the glutamate-/thiamine-responsive genes were inhibited in MoSDT1 transgenic rice, and these indicated that MoSDT1 triggered the defense system of rice in vivo. Interestingly, in vitro studies, we further found that MoSDT1 induced the defense system by ROS synthesis, callose deposition, PR gene expression and SA/JA synthesis/signal genes using the purified prokaryotic expression system in rice plants. In addition, this defense response was confirmed to be activated by the zinc finger domain of MoSDT1 via prokaryotic expression of MoSDT1 truncated mutants in rice plants. To elucidate the regulative effects of MoSDT1 on protein phosphorylation in rice, phosphoproteome analysis was performed in both MoSDT1-transgenic and wild type rice. We found that MoSDT1 specifically up-regulated the expression levels of a few phosphorylated proteins, which were involved in multiple functions, such as biotic/abiotic stress and growth. In addition, the motifs in these specific proteins ranked the top among the top-five conserved motifs in the MoSDT1-transgenic rice. MoSDT1 played a crucial role in enhancing rice resistance by modulating several genes and signaling pathways.
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- Guihua Duan
- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China.
- Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources in Yunnan, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China.
- Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, People's Republic of China.
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Keller I, Rodrigues CM, Neuhaus HE, Pommerrenig B. Improved resource allocation and stabilization of yield under abiotic stress. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2021; 257:153336. [PMID: 33360492 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2020.153336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2020] [Revised: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Sugars are the main building blocks for carbohydrate storage, but also serve as signaling molecules and protective compounds during abiotic stress responses. Accordingly, sugar transport proteins fulfill multiple roles as they mediate long distance sugar allocation, but also shape the subcellular and tissue-specific carbohydrate profiles by balancing the levels of these molecules in various compartments. Accordingly, transporter activity represents a target by classical or directed breeding approaches, to either, directly increase phloem loading or to increase sink strength in crop species. The relative subcellular distribution of sugars is critical for molecular signaling affecting yield-relevant processes like photosynthesis, onset of flowering and stress responses, while controlled long-distance sugar transport directly impacts development and productivity of plants. However, long-distance transport is prone to become unbalanced upon adverse environmental conditions. Therefore, we highlight the influence of stress stimuli on sucrose transport in the phloem and include the role of stress induced cellular carbohydrate sinks, like raffinose or fructans, which possess important roles to build up tolerance against challenging environmental conditions. In addition, we report on recent breeding approaches that resulted in altered source and sink capacities, leading to increased phloem sucrose shuttling in crops. Finally, we present strategies integrating the need of cellular stress-protection into the general picture of long-distance transport under abiotic stress, and point to possible approaches improving plant performance and resource allocation under adverse environmental conditions, leading to stabilized or even increased crop yield.
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- Isabel Keller
- Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
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Keller I, Müdsam C, Rodrigues CM, Kischka D, Zierer W, Sonnewald U, Harms K, Czarnecki O, Fiedler-Wiechers K, Koch W, Neuhaus HE, Ludewig F, Pommerrenig B. Cold-Triggered Induction of ROS- and Raffinose Metabolism in Freezing-Sensitive Taproot Tissue of Sugar Beet. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:715767. [PMID: 34539707 PMCID: PMC8446674 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.715767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris) is the exclusive source of sugar in the form of sucrose in temperate climate zones. Sugar beet is grown there as an annual crop from spring to autumn because of the damaging effect of freezing temperatures to taproot tissue. A collection of hybrid and non-hybrid sugar beet cultivars was tested for winter survival rates and freezing tolerance. Three genotypes with either low or high winter survival rates were selected for detailed study of their response to frost. These genotypes differed in the severity of frost injury in a defined inner region in the upper part of the taproot, the so-called pith. We aimed to elucidate genotype- and tissue-dependent molecular processes during freezing and combined analyses of sugar beet anatomy and physiology with transcriptomic and metabolite profiles of leaf and taproot tissues at low temperatures. Freezing temperatures induced strong downregulation of photosynthesis in leaves, generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and ROS-related gene expression in taproots. Simultaneously, expression of genes involved in raffinose metabolism, as well as concentrations of raffinose and its intermediates, increased markedly in both leaf and taproot tissue at low temperatures. The accumulation of raffinose in the pith tissue correlated with freezing tolerance of the three genotypes. We discuss a protective role for raffinose and its precursors against freezing damage of sugar beet taproot tissue.
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- Isabel Keller
- Department of Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Department of Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- *Correspondence: Benjamin Pommerrenig,
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Minen RI, Martinez MP, Iglesias AA, Figueroa CM. Biochemical characterization of recombinant UDP-sugar pyrophosphorylase and galactinol synthase from Brachypodium distachyon. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2020; 155:780-788. [PMID: 32866791 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.08.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Raffinose (Raf) protects plant cells during seed desiccation and under different abiotic stress conditions. The biosynthesis of Raf starts with the production of UDP-galactose by UDP-sugar pyrophosphorylase (USPPase) and continues with the synthesis of galactinol by galactinol synthase (GolSase). Galactinol is then used by Raf synthase to produce Raf. In this work, we report the biochemical characterization of USPPase (BdiUSPPase) and GolSase 1 (BdiGolSase1) from Brachypodium distachyon. The catalytic efficiency of BdiUSPPase was similar with galactose 1-phosphate and glucose 1-phosphate, but 5- to 17-fold lower with other sugar 1-phosphates. The catalytic efficiency of BdiGolSase1 with UDP-galactose was three orders of magnitude higher than with UDP-glucose. A structural model of BdiGolSase1 allowed us to determine the residues putatively involved in the binding of substrates. Among these, we found that Cys261 lies within the putative catalytic pocket. BdiGolSase1 was inactivated by oxidation with diamide and H2O2. The activity of the diamide-oxidized enzyme was recovered by reduction with dithiothreitol or E. coli thioredoxin, suggesting that BdiGolSase1 is redox-regulated.
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- Romina I Minen
- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral, UNL, CONICET, FBCB, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral, UNL, CONICET, FBCB, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral, UNL, CONICET, FBCB, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología del Litoral, UNL, CONICET, FBCB, Santa Fe, Argentina.
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Oberschelp GPJ, Guarnaschelli AB, Teson N, Harrand L, Podestá FE, Margarit E. Cold acclimation and freezing tolerance in three Eucalyptus species: A metabolomic and proteomic approach. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2020; 154:316-327. [PMID: 32593088 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2020] [Revised: 05/21/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The ability of plants to cope with frost events relies on the physiological and molecular responses triggered by cold temperatures. This process, named acclimation, involves reprogramming gene expression in order to adjust metabolism. Planted Eucalyptus species are highly productive but most of them are frost sensitive. However, acclimation process varies among species and environmental conditions, promoting more or less frost damage in young plantations of frost-prone areas. To identify metabolites and proteins responsible for these differences, two acclimation regimes were imposed to seedling of Eucalyptus grandis Hill ex Maiden (Eg), Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden (Ed) and Eucalyptus benthamii Maiden Cambage (Eb), and leaves submitted to biochemical and molecular analyses. Further, seedlings were used for simulated frosts in order to test the acclimation status effect on frost tolerance. Eb showed higher frost tolerance than Ed and Eg under control and acclimation scenarios, possibly due to its higher accumulation of phenolics, anthocyanins and soluble sugars as well as lower levels of photosynthetic pigments and related proteins. Also, a rise in frost tolerance and in osmoprotectants and antioxidants was observed for all the species due to cold acclimation treatment. Interestingly, metabolic profiles differed among species, suggesting different mechanisms to endure frosts and, probably, different requirements for cold acclimation. Shotgun proteomics reinforced differences and commonalities and supported metabolome observations. An in depth understanding of these responses could help to safeguard planted forests productivity through breeding of tolerant genetic material.
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- Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (FAUBA), Av. San Martín 4453, CABA, Argentina
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- EEA Concordia del INTA, Ruta 22 y vías del ferrocarril, Colonia Yeruá, Entre Ríos, Argentina
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- EEA Concordia del INTA, Ruta 22 y vías del ferrocarril, Colonia Yeruá, Entre Ríos, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Suipacha 531, Rosario, Santa Fe. Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Suipacha 531, Rosario, Santa Fe. Argentina.
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Liu ZY, Baoyin T, Li XL, Wang ZL. How fall dormancy benefits alfalfa winter-survival? Physiologic and transcriptomic analyses of dormancy process. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2019; 19:205. [PMID: 31109303 PMCID: PMC6528297 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1773-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2018] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Fall dormancy and freezing tolerance characterized as two important phenotypic traits, have great effects on productivity and persistence of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Despite the fact that one of the most limiting traits for alfalfa freezing tolerance in winter is fall dormancy, the interplay between fall dormancy and cold acclimation processes of alfalfa remains largely unknown. We compared the plant regrowth, winter survival, raffinose and amino acids accumulation, and genome-wide differentially expressed genes of fall-dormant cultivar with non-dormant cultivar under cold acclimation. RESULTS Averaged over both years, the non-dormant alfalfa exhibited largely rapid regrowth compared with fall dormant alfalfa after last cutting in autumn, but the winter survival rate of fall dormant alfalfa was about 34-fold higher than that of non-dormant alfalfa. The accumulation of raffinose and amino acids were significantly increased in fall dormant alfalfa, whereas were decreased in non-dormant alfalfa under cold acclimation. Expressions of candidate genes encoding raffinose biosynthesis genes were highly up-regulated in fall dormant alfalfa, but down-regulated in non-dormant alfalfa under cold acclimation. In fall dormant alfalfa, there was a significantly down-regulated expression of candidate genes encoding the glutamine synthase, which is indirectly involved in the proline metabolism. A total of eight significantly differentially expressed transcription factors (TFs) related to CBF and ABRE-BFs were identified. The most up-regulated TFs in fall dormant alfalfa cultivar were ABF4 and DREB1C. CONCLUSIONS Fall dormant alfalfa drastically increased raffinose and amino acids accumulation under cold acclimation. Raffinose-associated and amino acid-associated genes involved in metabolic pathways were more highly expressed in fall dormant alfalfa than non-dormant alfalfa under cold acclimation. This global survey of transcriptome profiles provides new insights into the interplay between fall dormancy and cold acclimation in alfalfa.
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- Zhi-Ying Liu
- Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China
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- Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology, School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecology and Restoration of Ministry of Agriculture, National Forage Improvement Center, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, China
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- China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, Qingdao, China
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Mukherjee S, Sengupta S, Mukherjee A, Basak P, Majumder AL. Abiotic stress regulates expression of galactinol synthase genes post-transcriptionally through intron retention in rice. PLANTA 2019; 249:891-912. [PMID: 30465114 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-018-3046-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Expression of the Galactinol synthase genes in rice is regulated through post-transcriptional intron retention in response to abiotic stress and may be linked to Raffinose Family Oligosaccharide synthesis in osmotic perturbation. Galactinol synthase (GolS) is the first committed enzyme in raffinose family oligosaccharide (RFO) synthesis pathway and synthesizes galactinol from UDP-galactose and inositol. Expression of GolS genes has long been implicated in abiotic stress, especially drought and salinity. A non-canonical regulation mechanism controlling the splicing and maturation of rice GolS genes was identified in rice photosynthetic tissue. We found that the two isoforms of Oryza sativa GolS (OsGolS) gene, located in chromosomes 3(OsGolS1) and 7(OsGolS2) are interspersed by conserved introns harboring characteristic premature termination codons (PTC). During abiotic stress, the premature and mature transcripts of both isoforms were found to accumulate in a rhythmic manner for very small time-windows interrupted by phases of complete absence. Reporter gene assay using GolS promoters under abiotic stress does not reflect this accumulation profile, suggesting that this regulation occurs post-transcriptionally. We suggest that this may be due to a surveillance mechanism triggering the degradation of the premature transcript preventing its accumulation in the cell. The suggested mechanism fits the paradigm of PTC-induced Nonsense-Mediated Decay (NMD). In support of our hypothesis, when we pharmacologically blocked NMD, the full-length pre-mRNAs were increasingly accumulated in cell. To this end, our work suggests that a combined transcriptional and post transcriptional control exists in rice to regulate GolS expression under stress. Concurrent detection and processing of prematurely terminating transcripts coupled to repressed splicing can be described as a form of Regulated Unproductive Splicing and Translation (RUST) and may be linked to the stress adaptation of the plant, which is an interesting future research possibility.
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- Sritama Mukherjee
- Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute (Centenary Campus), Kolkata, West Bengal, 700054, India
- Botany Department, Bethune College, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700006, India
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- Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute (Centenary Campus), Kolkata, West Bengal, 700054, India.
- School of Plant Environment and Soil Sciences, LSUAg Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
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- Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute (Centenary Campus), Kolkata, West Bengal, 700054, India
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- Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute (Centenary Campus), Kolkata, West Bengal, 700054, India
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- Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute (Centenary Campus), Kolkata, West Bengal, 700054, India.
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Gazquez A, Vilas JM, Colman Lerner JE, Maiale SJ, Calzadilla PI, Menéndez AB, Rodríguez AA. Rice tolerance to suboptimal low temperatures relies on the maintenance of the photosynthetic capacity. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2018; 127:537-552. [PMID: 29723825 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.04.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Revised: 04/12/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The purpose of this research was to identify differences between two contrasting rice cultivars in their response to suboptimal low temperatures stress. A transcriptomic analysis of the seedlings was performed and results were complemented with biochemical and physiological analyses. The microarray analysis showed downregulation of many genes related with PSII and particularly with the oxygen evolving complex in the sensitive cultivar IR50. Complementary studies indicated that the PSII performance, the degree of oxygen evolving complex coupling with the PSII core and net photosynthetic rate diminished in this cultivar in response to the stress. However, the tolerant cultivar Koshihikari was able to maintain its energy equilibrium by sustaining the photosynthetic capacity. The increase of oleic acid in Koshihikari could be related with membrane remodelling of the chloroplasts and hence contribute to tolerance. Overall, these results work as a ground for future analyses that look forward to characterize possible mechanisms to tolerate this stress.
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- Ayelén Gazquez
- Laboratorio de Fisiología de Estrés Abiótico en Plantas, Unidad de Biotecnología 1, IIB-INTECH, CONICET, UNSAM, Chascomús, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología de Estrés Abiótico en Plantas, Unidad de Biotecnología 1, IIB-INTECH, CONICET, UNSAM, Chascomús, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología de Estrés Abiótico en Plantas, Unidad de Biotecnología 1, IIB-INTECH, CONICET, UNSAM, Chascomús, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología de Estrés Abiótico en Plantas, Unidad de Biotecnología 1, IIB-INTECH, CONICET, UNSAM, Chascomús, Argentina
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- Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, FCEyN - UBA, INMIBO-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología de Estrés Abiótico en Plantas, Unidad de Biotecnología 1, IIB-INTECH, CONICET, UNSAM, Chascomús, Argentina.
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Gu H, Lu M, Zhang Z, Xu J, Cao W, Miao M. Metabolic process of raffinose family oligosaccharides during cold stress and recovery in cucumber leaves. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 224-225:112-120. [PMID: 29617631 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2018.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2017] [Revised: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) accumulate under stress conditions in many plants and have been suggested to act as stress protectants. To elucidate the metabolic process of RFOs under cold stress, levels of RFOs, and related carbohydrates, the expression and activities of main metabolic enzymes and their subcellular compartments were investigated during low-temperature treatment and during the recovery period in cucumber leaves. Cold stress induced the accumulation of stachyose in vacuoles, galactinol in vacuoles and cytosol, and sucrose and raffinose in vacuoles, cytosol, and chloroplasts. After cold stress removal, levels of these sugars decreased gradually in the respective compartments. Among four galactinol synthase genes (CsGS), CsGS1 was not affected by cold stress, while the other three CsGSs were up-regulated by low temperature. RNA levels of acid-α-galactosidase (GAL) 3 and alkaline-α-galactosidase (AGA) 2 and 3, and the activities of GAL and AGA, were up-regulated after cold stress removal. GAL3 protein and GAL activity were exclusively located in vacuoles, whereas AGA2 and AGA 3 proteins were found in cytosol and chloroplasts, respectively. The results indicate that RFOs, which accumulated during cold stress in different subcellular compartments in cucumber leaves, could be catabolized in situ by different galactosidases after stress removal.
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- Hao Gu
- Yangzhou Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Yangzhou Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Yangzhou Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Yangzhou Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Yangzhou Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Yangzhou Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of Ministry of Education, School of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China.
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You J, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Dossa K, Li D, Zhou R, Wang L, Zhang X. Genome-wide identification and expression analyses of genes involved in raffinose accumulation in sesame. Sci Rep 2018. [PMID: 29531231 PMCID: PMC5847563 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22585-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is an important oilseed crop. However, multiple abiotic stresses severely affect sesame growth and production. Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs), such as raffinose and stachyose, play an important role in desiccation tolerance of plants and developing seeds. In the present study, three types of key enzymes, galactinol synthase (GolS), raffinose synthase (RafS) and stachyose synthase (StaS), responsible for the biosynthesis of RFOs were identified at the genome-wide scale in sesame. A total of 7 SiGolS and 15 SiRS genes were identified in the sesame genome. Transcriptome analyses showed that SiGolS and SiRS genes exhibited distinct expression profiles in different tissues and seed developmental stages. Comparative expression analyses under various abiotic stresses indicated that most of SiGolS and SiRS genes were significantly regulated by drought, osmotic, salt, and waterlogging stresses, but slightly affected by cold stress. The up-regulation of several SiGolS and SiRS genes by multiple abiotic stresses suggested their active implication in sesame abiotic stress responses. Taken together, these results shed light on the RFOs-mediated abiotic stress resistance in sesame and provide a useful framework for improving abiotic stress resistance of sesame through genetic engineering.
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- Jun You
- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China.,Special Economic Crop Research Center of Shandon Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shandong Cotton Research Center, Jinan, 250100, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China.,Centre d'Etudes Régional pour l'Amélioration de l'Adaptation à la Sécheresse (CERAAS), BP 3320 Route de Khombole, Thiès, Senegal
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China
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- Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430062, China.
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Svetaz LA, Bustamante CA, Goldy C, Rivero N, Müller GL, Valentini GH, Fernie AR, Drincovich MF, Lara MV. Unravelling early events in the Taphrina deformans-Prunus persica interaction: an insight into the differential responses in resistant and susceptible genotypes. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2017; 40:1456-1473. [PMID: 28244594 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Leaf peach curl is a devastating disease affecting leaves, flowers and fruits, caused by the dimorphic fungus Taphrina deformans. To gain insight into the mechanisms of fungus pathogenesis and plant responses, leaves of a resistant and two susceptible Prunus persica genotypes were inoculated with blastospores (yeast), and the infection was monitored during 120 h post inoculation (h.p.i.). Fungal dimorphism to the filamentous form and induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS), callose synthesis, cell death and defence compound production were observed independently of the genotype. Fungal load significantly decreased after 120 h.p.i. in the resistant genotype, while the pathogen tended to grow in the susceptible genotypes. Metabolic profiling revealed a biphasic re-programming of plant tissue in susceptible genotypes, with an initial stage co-incident with the yeast form of the fungus and a second when the hypha is developed. Transcriptional analysis of PRs and plant hormone-related genes indicated that pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins are involved in P. persica defence responses against T. deformans and that salicylic acid is induced in the resistant genotype. Conducted experiments allowed the elucidation of common and differential responses in susceptible versus resistant genotypes and thus allow us to construct a picture of early events during T. deformans infection.
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- Laura A Svetaz
- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina
- Farmacognosia, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina
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- Estación Experimental San Pedro, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Ruta Nacional no. 9 Km 170, San Pedro, Argentina
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- Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina
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- Centro de Estudios Fotosintéticos y Bioquímicos (CEFOBI), Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000, Rosario, Argentina
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Chen Q, Lu X, Guo X, Guo Q, Li D. Metabolomics Characterization of Two Apocynaceae Plants, Catharanthus roseus and Vinca minor, Using GC-MS and LC-MS Methods in Combination. Molecules 2017; 22:E997. [PMID: 28629120 PMCID: PMC6152753 DOI: 10.3390/molecules22060997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2017] [Revised: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Catharanthus roseus (C. roseus) and Vinca minor (V. minor) are two common important medical plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. In this study, we used non-targeted GC-MS and targeted LC-MS metabolomics to dissect the metabolic profile of two plants with comparable phenotypic and metabolic differences. A total of 58 significantly different metabolites were present in different quantities according to PCA and PLS-DA score plots of the GC-MS analysis. The 58 identified compounds comprised 16 sugars, eight amino acids, nine alcohols and 18 organic acids. We subjected these metabolites into KEGG pathway enrichment analysis and highlighted 27 metabolic pathways, concentrated on the TCA cycle, glycometabolism, oligosaccharides, and polyol and lipid transporter (RFOS). Among the primary metabolites, trehalose, raffinose, digalacturonic acid and gallic acid were revealed to be the most significant marker compounds between the two plants, presumably contributing to species-specific phenotypic and metabolic discrepancy. The profiling of nine typical alkaloids in both plants using LC-MS method highlighted higher levels of crucial terpenoid indole alkaloid (TIA) intermediates of loganin, serpentine, and tabersonine in V. minor than in C. roseus. The possible underlying process of the metabolic flux from primary metabolism pathways to TIA synthesis was discussed and proposed. Generally speaking, this work provides a full-scale comparison of primary and secondary metabolites between two medical plants and a metabolic explanation of their TIA accumulation and phenotype differences.
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- Qi Chen
- Center for Ecological Research, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.
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- Center for Ecological Research, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.
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- Center for Ecological Research, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.
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Shimosaka E, Ozawa K. Overexpression of cold-inducible wheat galactinol synthase confers tolerance to chilling stress in transgenic rice. BREEDING SCIENCE 2015; 65:363-71. [PMID: 26719738 PMCID: PMC4671696 DOI: 10.1270/jsbbs.65.363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 07/14/2015] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Galactinol synthase (GolS) is considered to be a key regulator of the biosynthesis of Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs). Accumulation of RFOs has been reported to play a role in protection against abiotic stresses. We identified two cDNAs encoding galactinol synthase from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), which we designated as TaGolS1 and TaGolS2. Expression of the two TaGolS genes was induced by cold stress but not by drought, heat stress or ABA treatment in wheat. We generated transgenic lines of rice (Oryza sativa L.) constitutively overexpressing TaGolS1 or TaGolS2. These transgenic plants accumulated significantly higher levels of galactinol and raffinose than did wild-type plants and exhibited enhanced cold-stress tolerance. The results demonstrate the involvement of galactinol and raffinose in the development of chilling stress in rice and indicate that the genetic modification of the biosynthesis of RFOs by transformation with GolS genes could be an effective method for enhancing chilling-stress tolerance in rice.
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- Etsuo Shimosaka
- Crop Breeding Research Division, NARO Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center,
1 Hitsuji-ga-oka, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 062-8555,
Japan
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- Genetically Modified Organism Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences,
2-1-2 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8602,
Japan
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Sengupta S, Mukherjee S, Basak P, Majumder AL. Significance of galactinol and raffinose family oligosaccharide synthesis in plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:656. [PMID: 26379684 PMCID: PMC4549555 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2015] [Accepted: 08/07/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Abiotic stress induces differential expression of genes responsible for the synthesis of raffinose family of oligosaccharides (RFOs) in plants. RFOs are described as the most widespread D-galactose containing oligosaccharides in higher plants. Biosynthesis of RFOs begin with the activity of galactinol synthase (GolS; EC 2.4.1.123), a GT8 family glycosyltransferase that galactosylates myo-inositol to produce galactinol. Raffinose and the subsequent higher molecular weight RFOs (Stachyose, Verbascose, and Ajugose) are synthesized from sucrose by the subsequent addition of activated galactose moieties donated by Galactinol. Interestingly, GolS, the key enzyme of this pathway is functional only in the flowering plants. It is thus assumed that RFO synthesis is a specialized metabolic event in higher plants; although it is not known whether lower plant groups synthesize any galactinol or RFOs. In higher plants, several functional importance of RFOs have been reported, e.g., RFOs protect the embryo from maturation associated desiccation, are predominant transport carbohydrates in some plant families, act as signaling molecule following pathogen attack and wounding and accumulate in vegetative tissues in response to a range of abiotic stresses. However, the loss-of-function mutants reported so far fail to show any perturbation in those biological functions. The role of RFOs in biotic and abiotic stress is therefore still in debate and their specificity and related components remains to be demonstrated. The present review discusses the biology and stress-linked regulation of this less studied extension of inositol metabolic pathway.
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- Sonali Sengupta
- *Correspondence: Arun L. Majumder and Sonali Sengupta, Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Centenary Campus, P-1/12, C.I.T. Road, Scheme - VIIM, Kolkata 700054, West Bengal, India, ;
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- †Present address: Sritama Mukherjee, Department of Botany, Bethune College, Kolkata 700006, West Bengal, India
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- *Correspondence: Arun L. Majumder and Sonali Sengupta, Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Centenary Campus, P-1/12, C.I.T. Road, Scheme - VIIM, Kolkata 700054, West Bengal, India, ;
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Lahuta LB, Pluskota WE, Stelmaszewska J, Szablińska J. Dehydration induces expression of GALACTINOL SYNTHASE and RAFFINOSE SYNTHASE in seedlings of pea (Pisum sativum L.). JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 171:1306-14. [PMID: 25014266 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2014.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Revised: 03/17/2014] [Accepted: 04/14/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The exposition of 7-day-old pea seedlings to dehydration induced sudden changes in the concentration of monosaccharides and sucrose in epicotyl and roots tissues. During 24h of dehydration, the concentration of glucose and, to a lesser extent, fructose in seedling tissues decreased. The accumulation of sucrose was observed in roots after 4h and in epicotyls after 8h of stress. Epicotyls and roots also began to accumulate galactinol and raffinose after 8h of stress, when small changes in the water content of tissues occurred. The accumulation of galactinol and raffinose progressed parallel to water withdrawal from tissues, but after seedling rehydration both galactosides disappeared. The synthesis of galactinol and raffinose by an early induction (during the first hour of treatment) of galactinol synthase (PsGolS) and raffinose synthase (PsRS) gene expression as well as a later increase in the activity of both enzymes was noted. Signals possibly triggering the induction of PsGolS and PsRS gene expression and accumulation of galactinol and raffinose in seedlings are discussed.
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- Lesław B Lahuta
- University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Department of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, ul. Oczapowskiego 1A/103, 10-718 Olsztyn, Poland.
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- University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Department of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, ul. Oczapowskiego 1A/103, 10-718 Olsztyn, Poland
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- University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Department of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, ul. Oczapowskiego 1A/103, 10-718 Olsztyn, Poland
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- University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Department of Plant Physiology, Genetics and Biotechnology, ul. Oczapowskiego 1A/103, 10-718 Olsztyn, Poland
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Himuro Y, Ishiyama K, Mori F, Gondo T, Takahashi F, Shinozaki K, Kobayashi M, Akashi R. Arabidopsis galactinol synthase AtGolS2 improves drought tolerance in the monocot model Brachypodium distachyon. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 171:1127-31. [PMID: 24973584 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2014.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2014] [Revised: 04/19/2014] [Accepted: 04/21/2014] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Brachypodium distachyon (purple false brome) is a herbaceous species belonging to the grass subfamily Pooideae, which also includes major crops like wheat, barley, oat and rye. The species has been established as experimental model organism for understanding and improving cereal crops and temperate grasses. The complete genome of Bd21, the community standard line of B. distachyon, has been sequenced and protocols for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation have been published. Further improvements to the experimental platform including better evaluation systems for transgenic plants are still needed. Here we describe the growth conditions for Bd21 plants yielding highly responsive immature embryos that can generate embryogenic calli for transformation. A prolonged 20-h photoperiod produced seeds with superior immature embryos. In addition, osmotic treatment of embryogenic calli enhanced the efficiency of transfection by particle bombardment. We generated transgenic plants expressing Arabidopsis thaliana galactinol synthase 2 (AtGolS2) in these experiments. AtGolS2-expressing transgenics displayed significantly improved drought tolerance, increasing with increased expression of AtGolS2. These results demonstrate that AtGolS2 can confer drought tolerance to monocots and confirm that Brachypodium is a useful model to further explore ways to understand and improve major monocot crop species.
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- Yasuyo Himuro
- Biomass Research Platform Team, Biomass Engineering Program Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
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- RIKEN BioResource Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
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- RIKEN BioResource Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
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- Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
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- Biomass Research Platform Team, Biomass Engineering Program Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
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- Biomass Research Platform Team, Biomass Engineering Program Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
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- Biomass Research Platform Team, Biomass Engineering Program Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan; RIKEN BioResource Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0074, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan.
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Palma F, Carvajal F, Lluch C, Jamilena M, Garrido D. Changes in carbohydrate content in zucchini fruit (Cucurbita pepo L.) under low temperature stress. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 217-218:78-86. [PMID: 24467899 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2013.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2013] [Revised: 12/05/2013] [Accepted: 12/08/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The postharvest handling of zucchini fruit includes low-temperature storage, making cold stress unavoidable. We have investigated the changes of soluble carbohydrates under this stress and its relation with weight loss and chilling injury in zucchini fruit during postharvest storage at 4 °C and 20 °C for up to 14 days. Two varieties with different degrees of chilling tolerance were compared: Natura, the more tolerant variety, and Sinatra, the variety that suffered more severe chilling-injury symptoms and weight loss. In both varieties, total soluble carbohydrates, reducing soluble carbohydrates and polyols content was generally higher during storage at 4 °C than at 20 °C, thus these parameters are related to the physiological response of zucchini fruit to cold stress. However, the raffinose content increased in Natura and Sinatra fruits during storage at 4 °C and 20 °C, although at 20 °C the increase in raffinose was more remarkable than at 4 °C in both varieties, so that the role of raffinose could be more likely related to dehydration than to chilling susceptibility of zucchini fruit. Glucose, fructose, pinitol, and acid invertase activity registered opposite trends in both varieties against chilling, increasing in Natura and decreasing in Sinatra. The increase in acid invertase activity in Natura fruit during cold storage could contribute in part to the increase of these reducing sugars, whose metabolism could be involved in the adaptation to postharvest cold storage.
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- Francisco Palma
- Department of Plant Physiology, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department of Applied Biology, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, University of Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano s/n, 04120 Almería, Spain
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Granada, Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
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ElSayed AI, Rafudeen MS, Golldack D. Physiological aspects of raffinose family oligosaccharides in plants: protection against abiotic stress. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2014; 16:1-8. [PMID: 23937337 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2012] [Accepted: 04/21/2013] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Abiotic stresses resulting from water deficit, high salinity or periods of drought adversely affect plant growth and development and represent major selective forces during plant evolution. The raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) are synthesised from sucrose by the subsequent addition of activated galactinol moieties donated by galactinol. RFOs are characterised as compatible solutes involved in stress tolerance defence mechanisms, although evidence also suggests that they act as antioxidants, are part of carbon partitioning strategies and may serve as signals in response to stress. The key enzyme and regulatory point in RFO biosynthesis is galactinol synthase (GolS), and an increase of GolS in expression and activity is often associated with abiotic stress. It has also been shown that different GolS isoforms are expressed in response to different types of abiotic stress, suggesting that the timing and accumulation of RFOs are controlled for each abiotic stress. However, the accumulation of RFOs in response to stress is not universal and other functional roles have been suggested for RFOs, such as being part of a carbon storage mechanism. Transgenic Arabidopsis plants with increased galactinol and raffinose concentrations had better ROS scavenging capacity, while many sugars have been shown in vitro to have antioxidant activity, suggesting that RFOs may also act as antioxidants. The RFO pathway also interacts with other carbohydrate pathways, such as that of O-methyl inositol (OMI), which shows that the functional relevance of RFOs must not be seen in isolation to overall carbon re-allocation during stress responses.
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- A I ElSayed
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Science Faculty, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Physiology and Biochemistry of Plants, Faculty of Biology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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Sun Z, Qi X, Wang Z, Li P, Wu C, Zhang H, Zhao Y. Overexpression of TsGOLS2, a galactinol synthase, in Arabidopsis thaliana enhances tolerance to high salinity and osmotic stresses. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2013; 69:82-9. [PMID: 23728391 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2013.04.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2013] [Accepted: 04/11/2013] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Galactinol synthase (GOLS, EC 2.4.1.123), a key enzyme in the synthesis of raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs), catalyzes the condensation of UDP-galactose with myo-inositol to produce galactinol as the sole donor for the synthesis of RFOs. RFOs have been implicated in mitigating effects of environmental stresses on plants. TsGOLS2, was cloned from Thellungiella salsuginea with high homology to AtGOLS2. TsGOLS2 was up-regulated by several abiotic stresses. We overexpressed TsGOLS2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. The contents of galactinol, raffinose, and α-ketoglutaric acid were significantly increased in transgenic plants. Compared to wild type plants, salt-stressed transgenic A. thaliana exhibited higher germination rate, photosynthesis ability, and seedling growth. After being treated with osmotic stress by high concentration of sorbitol, transgenic plants retained high germination rates and grew well during early development. These results indicated that overexpression of TsGOLS2 in A. thaliana improved the tolerance of transgenic plants to high salinity and osmotic stress.
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- Zhibin Sun
- Key Lab of Plant Stress Research, Life Science College, Shandong Normal University, 88 Wenhua East Road, Jinan 250014, China
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Davik J, Koehler G, From B, Torp T, Rohloff J, Eidem P, Wilson RC, Sønsteby A, Randall SK, Alsheikh M. Dehydrin, alcohol dehydrogenase, and central metabolite levels are associated with cold tolerance in diploid strawberry (Fragaria spp.). PLANTA 2013; 237:265-77. [PMID: 23014928 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-012-1771-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2012] [Accepted: 09/11/2012] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The use of artificial freezing tests, identification of biomarkers linked to or directly involved in the low-temperature tolerance processes, could prove useful in applied strawberry breeding. This study was conducted to identify genotypes of diploid strawberry that differ in their tolerance to low-temperature stress and to investigate whether a set of candidate proteins and metabolites correlate with the level of tolerance. 17 Fragaria vesca, 2 F. nilgerrensis, 2 F. nubicola, and 1 F. pentaphylla genotypes were evaluated for low-temperature tolerance. Estimates of temperatures where 50 % of the plants survived (LT₅₀) ranged from -4.7 to -12.0 °C between the genotypes. Among the F. vesca genotypes, the LT₅₀ varied from -7.7 °C to -12.0 °C. Among the most tolerant were three F. vesca ssp. bracteata genotypes (FDP821, NCGR424, and NCGR502), while a F. vesca ssp. californica genotype (FDP817) was the least tolerant (LT₅₀) -7.7 °C). Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), total dehydrin expression, and content of central metabolism constituents were assayed in select plants acclimated at 2 °C. The LT₅₀ estimates and the expression of ADH and total dehydrins were highly correlated (r(adh) = -0.87, r (dehyd) = -0.82). Compounds related to the citric acid cycle were quantified in the leaves during acclimation. While several sugars and acids were significantly correlated to the LT₅₀ estimates early in the acclimation period, only galactinol proved to be a good LT₅₀ predictor after 28 days of acclimation (r(galact) = 0.79). It is concluded that ADH, dehydrins, and galactinol show great potential to serve as biomarkers for cold tolerance in diploid strawberry.
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- Jahn Davik
- Bioforsk-Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Kvithamar, 7500 Stjordal, Norway.
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Wang D, Yao W, Song Y, Liu W, Wang Z. Molecular characterization and expression of three galactinol synthase genes that confer stress tolerance in Salvia miltiorrhiza. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 169:1838-48. [PMID: 22995172 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2012.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2012] [Revised: 07/04/2012] [Accepted: 07/05/2012] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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To adapt to changes in their growing environment, plants express several stress-responsive genes. For example, the products of galactinol synthase (Gols) genes play a key role in regulating the levels of raffinose family oligosaccharides and conferring resistance to stress. We cloned and characterized three Gols genes in Salvia miltiorrhiza. Their expression followed three distinct patterns. Compared with the control, SmGols1 was up-regulated by temperature changes but was suppressed by exposure to methyl jasmonate or short-term drought. This gene had the greatest abundance of transcripts and was assigned a general function of carbon storage. SmGols2 responded to all stress and hormone treatments, and transcripts were maintained at a high level. Finally, expression of SmGols3 was weaker than the other two genes, but was increased significantly under different treatments. Over the experimental period, its expression declined to normal levels in response to all treatments except exposure to 100 μM ABA, long-term drought, heat (42 °C), or chilling (8 °C). Based on our finding of cis-elements in the 5' flanking regions, we concluded that these genes seem to be regulated by several HSF transcription factors. We also targeted their 90-bp conserved sequences and used them for RNA interference analysis. Some were knocked down to various extents in our transgenic lines. Fluctuations in their malondialdehyde contents under different stress treatments, as well as the rate of water loss in transformed plants, suggested that lipid peroxidation was more likely to occur in the transgenics than in the control. These results indicate that SmGols genes could have a main function in responding to cold or heat. Therefore, we believe that it is important to investigate this mechanism for tolerance in S. miltiorrhiza and to examine how expression of these SmGols and other homologs are influenced by abiotic stresses.
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- Donghao Wang
- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Medicinal Resources and Natural Pharmaceutical Chemistry, National Engineering Laboratory for Resource Development of Endangered Crude Drugs in Northwest of China, College of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, PR China
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Gil L, Ben-Ari J, Turgeon R, Wolf S. Effect of CMV infection and high temperatures on the enzymes involved in raffinose family oligosaccharide biosynthesis in melon plants. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 169:965-970. [PMID: 22575056 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2012.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2011] [Revised: 01/30/2012] [Accepted: 02/21/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Ultrastructural and molecular studies have provided experimental evidence for the classification of cucurbits as symplastic loaders, mainly translocating the raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) raffinose and stachyose. Earlier studies established that cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) infection causes a significant increase in the sucrose-to-RFO ratio in the phloem sap of melon plants. The alteration in phloem sap sugar composition was associated with upregulation of CmSUT1 transcript within the vascular bundles. The current research aimed to explore the effect of CMV infection on the enzymes involved in symplastic phloem loading and RFO biosynthesis. Viral infection did not affect the activity of either raffinose or stachyose synthases in source leaves, but caused upregulation of the respective transcripts. Interestingly, activity of galactinol synthase was higher in CMV-infected leaves, associated with upregulation of CmGAS2. A significant increase in CmGAS2 expression in source leaves of melon plants exposed to high temperatures indicated that this response is common for both biotic and abiotic stresses. However, the effect of CMV or heat stress on phloem sap sugar composition is not due to alteration in RFO biosynthesis.
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- Lidor Gil
- The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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