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Hao DL, Zhou JY, Qu J, Lu HL, Li L, Yao X, Chen JB, Liu JX, Guo HL, Zong JQ. Screening of environmental stimuli for the positive regulation of stomatal aperture in centipedegrass. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2024; 213:108838. [PMID: 38878388 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2024.108838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 06/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/12/2024] [Indexed: 07/07/2024]
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Grasslands, the largest carbon pool in China, possess enormous potential for carbon sequestration. Increasing the stomatal aperture to increase the CO2 absorption capacity is a potential method to improve plant photosynthetic efficiency and ultimately enhance the carbon sequestration capacity of grass plants. Research on stomatal aperture regulation has focused mostly on Arabidopsis or crops, while research on grass plants in these areas is scarce, which seriously restricts the implementation of this grassland carbon sequestration strategy. Here, a widely used ecological grass, centipedegrass, was used as the experimental material. First, a convenient method for observing the stomatal aperture was developed. The leaves were floated in a potassium ion-containing open solution (67 mM KCl, pH 6.0) with the adaxial surface rather than the abaxial surface in contact with the solution and were cultivated under light for 1.5 h. Then, nail polish was applied on the adaxial surface, and a large number of open stomata were imprinted. Second, with the help of this improved method, the concentration‒response characteristics of the stomatal aperture to eleven environmental stimuli were tested. The stomatal aperture is dependent on these environmental stimuli in a concentration-dependent manner. The addition of 100 μM brassinolide led to the maximal stomatal aperture. This study provided a technical basis for manipulating stomatal opening to increase the carbon sequestration capacity of centipedegrass.
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- Dong-Li Hao
- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China
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- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Jiangsu Vocational College of Agriculture and Forest, Jurong, 212400, China
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- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China; Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Sanya, 572025, China
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- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China
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- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China
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- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China
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- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China
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- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China
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- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China.
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- The National Forestry and Grassland Administration Engineering Research Center for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Warm-Season Turfgrasses, Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing, 210014, China.
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Tarvainen L, Henriksson N, Näsholm T, Marshall JD. Among-species variation in sap pH affects the xylem CO 2 transport potential in trees. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 238:926-931. [PMID: 36683449 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/26/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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- Lasse Tarvainen
- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, PO Box 461, Gothenburg, SE-405 30, Sweden
- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Skogmarksgränd, SE-901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Skogmarksgränd, SE-901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Skogmarksgränd, SE-901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Skogmarksgränd, SE-901 83, Umeå, Sweden
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AbdElgawad H, Zinta G, Hornbacher J, Papenbrock J, Markakis MN, Asard H, Beemster GTS. Elevated CO 2 mitigates the impact of drought stress by upregulating glucosinolate metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2023; 46:812-830. [PMID: 36541032 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Elevated CO2 (eCO2 ) reduces the impact of drought, but the mechanisms underlying this effect remain unclear. Therefore, we used a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the interaction of drought and eCO2 in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. Transcriptome and subsequent metabolite analyses identified a strong induction of the aliphatic glucosinolate (GL) biosynthesis as a main effect of eCO2 in drought-stressed leaves. Transcriptome results highlighted the upregulation of ABI5 and downregulation of WRKY63 transcription factors (TF), known to enhance and inhibit the expression of genes regulating aliphatic GL biosynthesis (e.g., MYB28 and 29 TFs), respectively. In addition, eCO2 positively regulated aliphatic GL biosynthesis by MYB28/29 and increasing the accumulation of GL precursors. To test the role of GLs in the stress-mitigating effect of eCO2 , we investigated the effect of genetic perturbations of the GL biosynthesis. Overexpression of MYB28, 29 and 76 improved drought tolerance by inducing stomatal closure and maintaining plant turgor, whereas loss of cyp79f genes reduced the stress-mitigating effect of eCO2 and decreased drought tolerance. Overall, the crucial role of GL metabolism in drought stress mitigation by eCO2 could be a beneficial trait to overcome future climate challenges.
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- Hamada AbdElgawad
- Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Science Faculty, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt
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- Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Biotechnology Division, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Palampur, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Uttar Pradesh, Ghaziabad, India
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- Institute of Botany, Leibniz University Hannove, Hannover, Germany
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- Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Integrated Molecular Plant Physiology Research, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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Pramsohler M, Lichtenberger E, Neuner G. Seasonal Xylem Sap Acidification Is Governed by Tree Phenology, Temperature and Elevation of Growing Site. PLANTS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 11:2058. [PMID: 35956536 PMCID: PMC9370224 DOI: 10.3390/plants11152058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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pH of xylem sap (pHx) was determined in three trees (Malus domestica (apple tree), Picea abies and Pinus cembra) in response to seasonal changes. Conifer trees from lowland (600 m) were compared to trees growing at the alpine timberline (1950 m a.s.l.). Xylem sap was extracted with a Scholander pressure bomb and pHx was measured with a pH microsensor. In all species, pHx changed markedly with season. In spring, pHx was acidic; during winter, the pHx was more alkaline. In apple trees, the pHx did not show a significant correlation with temperature but was rather affected by developmental stage. During flushing in spring, xylem sap acidification took place concomitant to the developmental stage “tight cluster”, when foliar development enables a significant transpiration and a consequent movement of water in the xylem. The xylem sap of the two studied conifers showed a significantly larger seasonal alkalinisation (+2.1) than found in apple trees (+1.2) and was significantly more pronounced at the timberline. Xylem sap acidification took place before bud break. pHx had a significant negative correlation with soil temperatures and corresponded to already reported pHx of angiosperms. Overall, pHx appears to be a sensitive stress marker and indicator of activity status in tree xylem.
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- Manuel Pramsohler
- Laimburg Research Centre, Laimburg 6, Pfatten/Vadena, 39040 Auer/Ora, Italy
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- Unit of Functional Plant Biology, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestraße 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Unit of Functional Plant Biology, Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestraße 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Michela J, Claudia C, Federico B, Sara P, Filippo V, Nicola C, Manuele B, Davide C, Loreto F, Zappettini A. Real-time monitoring of Arundo donax response to saline stress through the application of in vivo sensing technology. Sci Rep 2021; 11:18598. [PMID: 34545124 PMCID: PMC8452760 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97872-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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One of the main impacts of climate change on agriculture production is the dramatic increase of saline (Na+) content in substrate, that will impair crop performance and productivity. Here we demonstrate how the application of smart technologies such as an in vivo sensor, termed bioristor, allows to continuously monitor in real-time the dynamic changes of ion concentration in the sap of Arundo donax L. (common name giant reed or giant cane), when exposed to a progressive salinity stress. Data collected in vivo by bioristor sensors inserted at two different heights into A. donax stems enabled us to detect the early phases of stress response upon increasing salinity. Indeed, the continuous time-series of data recorded by the bioristor returned a specific signal which correlated with Na+ content in leaves of Na-stressed plants, opening a new perspective for its application as a tool for in vivo plant phenotyping and selection of genotypes more suitable for the exploitation of saline soils.
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- Janni Michela
- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM), National Research Council (CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43124, Parma, Italy. .,National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Bioscience and Bioresources (IBBR), National Research Council (CNR), Via Amendola 165/A, 70126, Bari, Italy.
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- Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, via San Bonaventura 13, 50145, Florence, Italy.
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute for the Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR - IPSP), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute for the Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR - IPSP), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.,Laboratory of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska cesta 13, 5000, Rožna Dolina, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM), National Research Council (CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM), National Research Council (CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM), National Research Council (CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM), National Research Council (CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy - Department of Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences, (CNR-DISBA), P. Le Aldo Moro, 00185, Roma, Italy.,Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism (IMEM), National Research Council (CNR), Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43124, Parma, Italy
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Geilfus CM, Zhang X, Mithöfer A, Burgel L, Bárdos G, Zörb C. Leaf apoplastic alkalization promotes transcription of the ABA-synthesizing enzyme Vp14 and stomatal closure in Zea mays. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2021; 72:2686-2695. [PMID: 33345268 PMCID: PMC8006549 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eraa589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
The chloride component of NaCl salinity causes the leaf apoplast to transiently alkalinize. This transition in pH reduces stomatal aperture. However, whether this apoplastic pH (pHapo) transient initiates stomatal closure by interacting with other chloride stress-induced responses or whether the pH transient alone initiates stomatal closure is unknown. To clarify the problem, the transient alkalinization of the leaf apoplast was mimicked in intact maize (Zea mays L.) by infiltrating near-neutral pH buffers into the leaf apoplast. Effects of the pHapo transient could thus be investigated independently from other chloride stress-derived effects. Microscopy-based ratiometric live pHapo imaging was used to monitor pHapoin planta. LC-MS/MS and real-time quantitative reverse transcription-PCR leaf analyses showed that the artificially induced pHapo transient led to an increase in the concentrations of the stomata-regulating plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) and in transcripts of the key ABA-synthesizing gene ZmVp14 in the leaf. Since stomatal aperture and stomatal conductance decreased according to pHapo, we conclude that the pHapo transient alone initiates stomatal closure. Therefore, the functionality does not depend on interactions with other compounds induced by chloride stress. Overall, our data indicate that the pH of the leaf apoplast links chloride salinity with the control of stomatal aperture via effects exerted on the transcription of ABA.
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- Christoph-Martin Geilfus
- Division of Controlled Environment Horticulture, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Albrecht-Thaer-Weg, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science, Quality of Plant Products, University Hohenheim, Schloss, Westhof-West, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Research Group Plant Defense Physiology, Hans-Knöll-Straße, Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science, Quality of Plant Products, University Hohenheim, Schloss, Westhof-West, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science, Quality of Plant Products, University Hohenheim, Schloss, Westhof-West, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science, Quality of Plant Products, University Hohenheim, Schloss, Westhof-West, Stuttgart, Germany
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Huber AE, Melcher PJ, Piñeros MA, Setter TL, Bauerle TL. Signal coordination before, during and after stomatal closure in response to drought stress. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2019; 224:675-688. [PMID: 31364171 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Signal coordination in response to changes in water availability remains unclear, as does the role of embolism events in signaling drought stress. Sunflowers were exposed to two drought treatments of varying intensity while simultaneously monitoring changes in stomatal conductance, acoustic emissions (AE), turgor pressure, surface-level electrical potential, organ-level water potential and leaf abscisic acid (ABA) concentration. Leaf, stem and root xylem vulnerability to embolism were measured with the single vessel injection technique. In both drought treatments, it was found that AE events and turgor changes preceded the onset of stomatal closure, whereas electrical surface potentials shifted concurrently with stomatal closure. Leaf-level ABA concentration did not change until after stomata were closed. Roots and petioles were equally vulnerable to drought stress based on the single vessel injection technique. However, anatomical analysis of the xylem indicated that the increased AE events were not a result of xylem embolism formation. Additionally, roots and stems never reached a xylem pressure threshold that would initiate runaway embolism throughout the entire experiment. It is concluded that stomatal closure was not embolism-driven, but, rather, that onset of stomatal closure was most closely correlated with the hydraulic signal from changes in leaf turgor.
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- Annika E Huber
- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, NY, USA
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- Biology Department, Center for Natural Sciences, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 14850, NY, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, NY, USA
- Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, USDA-ARS, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, NY, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, NY, USA
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, NY, USA
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Ceciliato PHO, Zhang J, Liu Q, Shen X, Hu H, Liu C, Schäffner AR, Schroeder JI. Intact leaf gas exchange provides a robust method for measuring the kinetics of stomatal conductance responses to abscisic acid and other small molecules in Arabidopsis and grasses. PLANT METHODS 2019; 15:38. [PMID: 31019545 PMCID: PMC6472101 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-019-0423-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Guard cells perceive external and internal stimuli and regulate stomatal conductance in plants. With the use of gas exchange analyzers, time-resolved stomatal conductance responses to light intensity, [CO2] concentration and relative humidity changes can be measured. This is more difficult to achieve when measuring stomatal responses to small soluble molecules such as the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) or the bacterial peptide flagellin 22 (flg22), in particular when investigating mutants with response phenotypes. RESULTS A method to evaluate the dynamic effects of small molecules on stomatal conductance in a time-resolved fashion using gas exchange analyzers is presented here. ABA-induced stomatal closure was investigated by adding ABA to the transpiration stream of intact leaves placed in a microcentrifuge tube containing water. Strong ABA responses were resolved in time- and in a dose-dependent manner in wild-type Arabidopsis leaves, whereas the same response was not observed in leaves of the ABA-insensitive mutant open stomata 1-3 (ost1-3). Moreover, when leaves of the Plasma membrane Intrinsic Protein (PIP) aquaporin quadruple mutant pip1;1 pip1;2 pip2;1 pip2;2 were tested, robust wild-type-like responses to ABA were observed. When the bacterial peptide flg22 was added to the transpiration stream of intact wild-type leaves, a strong flg22-induced stomatal closure effect was observed. Finally, the proposed technique was further developed and optimized for evaluation of stomatal conductance responses to small molecules in leaves of grasses using the reference plant Brachypodium distachyon. CONCLUSIONS Due to the variable size of stomata in Arabidopsis and the limited dynamic response of stomata in isolated epidermal strips, evaluation of the effect of small molecules on stomatal physiology has been challenging and has led in some cases to inconsistent results. Moreover, potential signals from the mesophyll are missing when using epidermal peels to evaluate stomatal aperture responses. Here we propose a less invasive technique which allows for time-resolved measurements of stomatal conductance responses to small molecules optimized for both Arabidopsis and Brachypodium distachyon leaves.
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- Paulo H. O. Ceciliato
- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116 USA
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116 USA
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070 China
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- Biochemical Plant Pathology, Department of Environmental Sciences, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
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- Biochemical Plant Pathology, Department of Environmental Sciences, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
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- Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116 USA
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Yang J, Zhao S, Zhao B, Li C. Overexpression of TaLEA3 induces rapid stomatal closure under drought stress in Phellodendron amurense Rupr. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2018; 277:100-109. [PMID: 30466574 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Revised: 09/21/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins participate in drought stress responses in plants. In the present study, the gene TaLEA3 from the drought-resistant plant Tamarix androssowii was transformed into Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense) via Agrobacterium tumefaciens to investigate the mechanism of stomatal closure in response to osmotic stress. Our results showed that P. amurense overexpressing TaLEA3 were resistant to drought stress by rapid stomatal closure. To study the stomatal movement regulated at the molecular level, a model system for stoma closure was established in in vitro P. amurense. In this work, we found that the increased Ca2+ accumulation in guard cells of transgenic plants caused stomatal closure and activated K+ efflux under polyethylene glycol (PEG) stress. Moreover, H+ changes might provide a needed pH condition for stomatal closure. Further, nitric oxide (NO) fluorescence was measured using an NO-specific fluorescent probe, diaminofluorescein-FM diacetate, which showed that guard cell NO fluorescence was stronger in transgenic plants compared with wild type plants. Additionally, five genes encoding nitrate reductase were up-regulated, indicating that TaLEA3 overexpression positively regulated NO biosynthesis and accumulation in the guard cells. This discovery will further our understanding of the LEA gene function and will help in engineering drought-resistant tree cultivars.
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- Jingli Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, Harbin 150040, China
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- School of Phamacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, Harbin 150040, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, 26 Hexing Road, Harbin 150040, China.
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Geilfus CM. The pH of the Apoplast: Dynamic Factor with Functional Impact Under Stress. MOLECULAR PLANT 2017; 10:1371-1386. [PMID: 28987886 DOI: 10.1016/j.molp.2017.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Revised: 09/22/2017] [Accepted: 09/30/2017] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The apoplast is an interconnected compartment with a thin water-film that alkalinizes under stress. This systemic pH increase may be a secondary effect without functional implications, arising from ion movements or proton-pump regulations. On the other hand, there are increasing indications that it is part of a mechanism to withstand stress. Regardless of this controversy, alkalinization of the apoplast has received little attention. The apoplastic pH (pHapo) increases not only during plant-pathogen interactions but also in response to salinity or drought. Not much is known about the mechanisms that cause the leaf apoplast to alkalinize, nor whether, and if so, how functional impact is conveyed. Controversial explanations have been given, and the unusual complexity of pHapo regulation is considered as the primary reason behind this lack of knowledge. A gathering of scattered information revealed that changes in pHapo convey functionality by regulating stomatal aperture via the effects exerted on abscisic acid. Moreover, apoplastic alkalinization may regulate growth under stress, whereas this needs to be verified. In this review, a comprehensive survey about several physiological mechanisms that alkalize the apoplast under stress is given, and the suitability of apoplastic alkalinization as transducing element for the transmission of sensory information is discussed.
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- Christoph-Martin Geilfus
- Division of Controlled Environment Horticulture, Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Albrecht-Thaer-Weg 1, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Haider MS, Zhang C, Kurjogi MM, Pervaiz T, Zheng T, Zhang C, Lide C, Shangguan L, Fang J. Insights into grapevine defense response against drought as revealed by biochemical, physiological and RNA-Seq analysis. Sci Rep 2017; 7:13134. [PMID: 29030640 PMCID: PMC5640638 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13464-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Grapevine is an important and extensively grown fruit crop, which is severely hampered by drought worldwide. So, comprehending the impact of drought on grapevine genetic resources is necessary. In the present study, RNA-sequencing was executed using cDNA libraries constructed from both drought-stress and control plants. Results generated 12,451 differentially expressed genes (DEGs), out of which 8,021 genes were up-regulated, and 4,430 were down-regulated. Further physiological and biochemical investigations were also performed to validate the biological processes associated with the development of grapevine in response to drought stress. Results also revealed that decline in the rate of stomatal conductance, in turn, decrease the photosynthetic activity and CO2 assimilation in the grapevine leaves. Reactive oxygen species, including stress enzymes and their related proteins, and secondary metabolites were also activated in the present study. Likewise, various hormones also induced in response to drought stress. Overall, the present study concludes that these DEGs play both positive and negative roles in drought tolerance by regulating various biological pathways of grapevine. Nevertheless, our findings have provided valuable gene information for future studies of abiotic stress in grapevine and various other fruit crops.
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- Muhammad Salman Haider
- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tongwei Road 6, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tongwei Road 6, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tongwei Road 6, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tongwei Road 6, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tongwei Road 6, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tongwei Road 6, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tongwei Road 6, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China
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- College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Tongwei Road 6, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China.
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Fricke W. Water transport and energy. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2017; 40:977-994. [PMID: 27756100 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Revised: 10/08/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Water transport in plants occurs along various paths and is driven by gradients in its free energy. It is generally considered that the mode of transport, being either diffusion or bulk flow, is a passive process, although energy may be required to sustain the forces driving water flow. This review aims at putting water flow at the various organisational levels (cell, organ, plant) in the context of the energy that is required to maintain these flows. In addition, the question is addressed (1) whether water can be transported against a difference in its chemical free energy, 'water potential' (Ψ), through, directly or indirectly, active processes; and (2) whether the energy released when water is flowing down a gradient in its energy, for example during day-time transpiration and cell expansive growth, is significant compared to the energy budget of plant and cell. The overall aim of review is not so much to provide a definite 'Yes' and 'No' to these questions, but rather to stimulate discussion and raise awareness that water transport in plants has its real, associated, energy costs and potential energy gains.
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- Wieland Fricke
- School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland
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Karuppanapandian T, Geilfus CM, Mühling KH, Novák O, Gloser V. Early changes of the pH of the apoplast are different in leaves, stem and roots of Vicia faba L. under declining water availability. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2017; 255:51-58. [PMID: 28131341 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2016.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2016] [Revised: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 11/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Changes in pH of the apoplast have recently been discussed as an important factor in adjusting transpiration and water relations under conditions of drought via modulatory effect on abscisic acid (ABA) concentration. Using Vicia faba L., we investigated whether changes in the root, shoot and leaf apoplastic pH correlated with (1) a drought-induced reduction in transpiration and with (2) changes in ABA concentration. Transpiration, leaf water potential and ABA in leaves were measured and correlated with root and shoot xylem pH, determined by a pH microelectrode, and pH of leaf apoplast quantified by microscopy-based in vivo ratiometric analysis. Results revealed that a reduction in transpiration rate in the early phase of soil drying could not be linked with changes in the apoplastic pH via effects on the stomata-regulating hormone ABA. Moreover, drought-induced increase in pH of xylem or leaf apoplast was not the remote effect of an acropetal transport of alkaline sap from root, because root xylem acidified during progressive soil drying, whereas the shoot apoplast alkalized. We reason that other, yet unknown signalling mechanism was responsible for reduction of transpiration rate in the early phase of soil drying.
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- Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany; Institute of Crop Science, Division of Crop Product Quality, University of Hohenheim, Emil-Wolff-Straße 25, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Palacký University & Institute of Experimental Botany Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Olomouc, Czechia
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia.
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Fanourakis D, Bouranis D, Giday H, Carvalho DRA, Rezaei Nejad A, Ottosen CO. Improving stomatal functioning at elevated growth air humidity: A review. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 207:51-60. [PMID: 27792901 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2016.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2016] [Accepted: 10/07/2016] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Plants grown at high relative air humidity (RH≥85%) are prone to lethal wilting upon transfer to conditions of high evaporative demand. The reduced survival of these plants is related to (i) increased cuticular permeability, (ii) changed anatomical features (i.e., longer pore length and higher stomatal density), (iii) reduced rehydration ability, (iv) impaired water potential sensitivity to leaf dehydration and, most importantly, (v) compromised stomatal closing ability. This review presents a critical analysis of the strategies which stimulate stomatal functioning during plant development at high RH. These include (a) breeding for tolerant cultivars, (b) interventions with respect to the belowground environment (i.e., water deficit, increased salinity, nutrient culture and grafting) as well as (c) manipulation of the aerial environment [i.e., increased proportion of blue light, increased air movement, temporal temperature rise, and spraying with abscisic acid (ABA)]. Root hypoxia, mechanical disturbance, as well as spraying with compounds mimicking ABA, lessening its inactivation or stimulating its within-leaf redistribution are also expected to improve stomatal functioning of leaves expanded in humid air. Available evidence leaves little doubt that genotypic and phenotypic differences in stomatal functioning following cultivation at high RH are realized through the intermediacy of ABA.
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- Dimitrios Fanourakis
- School of Agricultural Technology, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, GR 71004 Heraklio, Greece.
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- Plant Physiology and Morphology Laboratory, Crop Science Department, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, P.O. Box 465, Khorramabad, Iran
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- Aarhus University, Department of Food Science, Kirstinebjergvej 10, DK-5792 Årslev, Denmark
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Valluru R, Davies WJ, Reynolds MP, Dodd IC. Foliar Abscisic Acid-To-Ethylene Accumulation and Response Regulate Shoot Growth Sensitivity to Mild Drought in Wheat. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2016; 7:461. [PMID: 27148292 PMCID: PMC4834443 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2015] [Accepted: 03/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Although, plant hormones play an important role in adjusting growth in response to environmental perturbation, the relative contributions of abscisic acid (ABA) and ethylene remain elusive. Using six spring wheat genotypes differing for stress tolerance, we show that young seedlings of the drought-tolerant (DT) group maintained or increased shoot dry weight (SDW) while the drought-susceptible (DS) group decreased SDW in response to mild drought. Both the DT and DS groups increased endogenous ABA and ethylene concentrations under mild drought compared to control. The DT and DS groups exhibited different SDW response trends, whereby the DS group decreased while the DT group increased SDW, to increased concentrations of ABA and ethylene under mild drought, although both groups decreased ABA/ethylene ratio under mild drought albeit at different levels. We concluded that SDW of the DT and DS groups might be distinctly regulated by specific ABA:ethylene ratio. Further, a foliar-spray of low concentrations (0.1 μM) of ABA increased shoot relative growth rate (RGR) in the DS group while ACC (1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, ethylene precursor) spray increased RGR in both groups compared to control. Furthermore, the DT group accumulated a significantly higher galactose while a significantly lower maltose in the shoot compared to the DS group. Taken all together, these results suggest an impact of ABA, ethylene, and ABA:ethylene ratio on SDW of wheat seedlings that may partly underlie a genotypic variability of different shoot growth sensitivities to drought among crop species under field conditions. We propose that phenotyping based on hormone accumulation, response and hormonal ratio would be a viable, rapid, and an early-stage selection tool aiding genotype selection for stress tolerance.
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- Ravi Valluru
- Global Wheat Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)El Batan, Mexico
- Plant Biology Department, Lancaster Environmental Center, Lancaster UniversityLancaster, UK
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- Plant Biology Department, Lancaster Environmental Center, Lancaster UniversityLancaster, UK
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- Global Wheat Program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)El Batan, Mexico
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- Plant Biology Department, Lancaster Environmental Center, Lancaster UniversityLancaster, UK
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Salomón R, Valbuena-Carabaña M, Teskey R, McGuire MA, Aubrey D, González-Doncel I, Gil L, Rodríguez-Calcerrada J. Seasonal and diel variation in xylem CO2 concentration and sap pH in sub-Mediterranean oak stems. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2016; 67:2817-2827. [PMID: 27012285 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erw121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Since a substantial portion of respired CO2 remains within the stem, diel and seasonal trends in stem CO2 concentration ([CO2]) are of major interest in plant respiration and carbon budget research. However, continuous long-term stem [CO2] studies are scarce, and generally absent in Mediterranean climates. In this study, stem [CO2] was monitored every 15min together with stem and air temperature, sap flow, and soil water storage during a growing season in 16 stems of Quercus pyrenaica to elucidate the main drivers of stem [CO2] at different temporal scales. Fluctuations in sap pH were also assessed during two growing seasons to evaluate potential errors in estimates of the concentration of CO2 dissolved in xylem sap ([CO2*]) calculated using Henry's law. Stem temperature was the best predictor of stem [CO2] and explained more than 90% and 50% of the variability in stem [CO2] at diel and seasonal scales, respectively. Under dry conditions, soil water storage was the main driver of stem [CO2]. Likewise, the first rains after summer drought caused intense stem [CO2] pulses, suggesting enhanced stem and root respiration and increased resistance to radial CO2 diffusion. Sap flow played a secondary role in controlling stem [CO2] variations. We observed night-time sap pH acidification and progressive seasonal alkalinization. Thus, if the annual mean value of sap pH (measured at midday) was assumed to be constant, night-time sap [CO2*] was substantially overestimated (40%), and spring and autumn sap [CO2*] were misestimated by 25%. This work highlights that diel and seasonal variations in temperature, tree water availability, and sap pH substantially affect xylem [CO2] and sap [CO2*].
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- Roberto Salomón
- Forest Genetics and Ecophysiology Research Group, E.T.S. Forestry Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Forest Genetics and Ecophysiology Research Group, E.T.S. Forestry Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, 180 East Green St, Athens, GA 30602-2152, USA
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- Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, 180 East Green St, Athens, GA 30602-2152, USA
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- Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, 180 East Green St, Athens, GA 30602-2152, USA Savannah River Ecology Lab, University of Georgia, Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802, USA
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- Forest Genetics and Ecophysiology Research Group, E.T.S. Forestry Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Forest Genetics and Ecophysiology Research Group, E.T.S. Forestry Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Forest Genetics and Ecophysiology Research Group, E.T.S. Forestry Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Geilfus CM, Mithöfer A, Ludwig-Müller J, Zörb C, Muehling KH. Chloride-inducible transient apoplastic alkalinizations induce stomata closure by controlling abscisic acid distribution between leaf apoplast and guard cells in salt-stressed Vicia faba. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2015; 208:803-16. [PMID: 26096890 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 05/10/2015] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Chloride stress causes the leaf apoplast transiently to alkalize, an event that is presumed to contribute to the ability of plants to adapt to saline conditions. However, the initiation of coordinated processes downstream of the alkalinization is unknown. We hypothesize that chloride-inducible pH dynamics are a key chemical feature modulating the compartmental distribution of abscisic acid (ABA) and, as a consequence, affecting stomata aperture. Apoplastic pH and stomata aperture dynamics in intact Vicia faba leaves were monitored by microscopy-based ratio imaging and porometric measurements of stomatal conductance. ABA concentrations in leaf apoplast and guard cells were compared with pH dynamics by gas-chromatography-mass-spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid-chromatography-tandem-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Results demonstrate that, upon chloride addition to roots, an alkalizing factor that initiates the pH dynamic propagates from root to leaf in a way similar to xylem-distributed water. In leaves, it induces a systemic transient apoplastic alkalinization that causes apoplastic ABA concentration to increase, followed by an elevation of endogenous guard cell ABA. We conclude that the transient alkalinization, which is a remote effect of chloride stress, modulates the compartmental distribution of ABA between the leaf apoplast and the guard cells and, in this way, is instrumental in inducing stomata closure during the beginning of salinity.
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- Christoph-Martin Geilfus
- Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Christian Albrechts University, Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 2, D-24118, Kiel, Germany
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- Department Bioorganic Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Straße 8, D-07745, Jena, Germany
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- Institut für Botanik, Technische Universität Dresden, Zellescher Weg 20b, D-01062, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science, Quality of Plant Products, University Hohenheim, Schloss, Westhof West, 118, D-70593, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Christian Albrechts University, Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 2, D-24118, Kiel, Germany
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Kudoyarova GR, Dodd IC, Veselov DS, Rothwell SA, Veselov SY. Common and specific responses to availability of mineral nutrients and water. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2015; 66:2133-44. [PMID: 25697793 PMCID: PMC4986719 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erv017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2014] [Revised: 01/04/2015] [Accepted: 01/08/2015] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Changes in resource (mineral nutrients and water) availability, due to their heterogeneous distribution in space and time, affect plant development. Plants need to sense these changes to optimize growth and biomass allocation by integrating root and shoot growth. Since a limited supply of water or nutrients can elicit similar physiological responses (the relative activation of root growth at the expense of shoot growth), similar underlying mechanisms may affect perception and acquisition of either nutrients or water. This review compares root and shoot responses to availability of different macronutrients and water. Attention is given to the roles of root-to-shoot signalling and shoot-to-root signalling, with regard to coordinating changes in root and shoot growth and development. Involvement of plant hormones in regulating physiological responses such as stomatal and hydraulic conductance is revealed by measuring the effects of resource availability on phytohormone concentrations in roots and shoots, and their flow between roots and shoots in xylem and phloem saps. More specific evidence can be obtained by measuring the physiological responses of genotypes with altered hormone responses or concentrations. We discuss the similarity and diversity of changes in shoot growth, allocation to root growth, and root architecture under changes in water, nitrate, and phosphorus availability, and the possible involvement of abscisic acid, indole-acetic acid, and cytokinin in their regulation. A better understanding of these mechanisms may contribute to better crop management for efficient use of these resources and to selecting crops for improved performance under suboptimal soil conditions.
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- Guzel R Kudoyarova
- Institute of Biology, Ufa Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Oktyabrya 69, 450054 Ufa, Russia
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- The Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ Lancaster, UK
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- Institute of Biology, Ufa Science Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Oktyabrya 69, 450054 Ufa, Russia
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- The Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ Lancaster, UK
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Shi L, Guo M, Ye N, Liu Y, Liu R, Xia Y, Cui S, Zhang J. Reduced ABA Accumulation in the Root System is Caused by ABA Exudation in Upland Rice (Oryza sativa L. var. Gaoshan1) and this Enhanced Drought Adaptation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 56:951-64. [DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2014] [Accepted: 02/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Geilfus CM, Mühling KH. Microscopic and macroscopic monitoring of adaxial-abaxial pH gradients in the leaf apoplast of Vicia faba L. as primed by NaCl stress at the roots. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2014; 223:109-115. [PMID: 24767120 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2014.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2014] [Revised: 03/12/2014] [Accepted: 03/16/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The pH is a basic chemical requirement in cellular and apoplastic compartments that influences various physiological processes in plants. Apoplastic pH shifts can modulate the apoplastic and symplastic distribution of plant hormones or influence proton motive force-driven uptake processes over the plasma-membrane. Changing environments are known to effect on the apoplastic H(+)-concentration in leaves and roots. The onset of NaCl-stress at the roots for instance primes a chloride-specific systemic alkalinization of the leaf apoplast. By means of microscopy- and macroscopy-based in planta ratio-imaging we surprisingly found that large adaxial-abaxial pH gradients were established throughout the leaf apoplast during the formation of the NaCl-induced alkalinization. Moreover, the root system is necessary to ensure the transient nature of the leaf apoplastic alkalinization.
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- Christoph-Martin Geilfus
- Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Kiel University, Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 2, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
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- Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Kiel University, Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 2, 24118 Kiel, Germany.
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Caldeira CF, Bosio M, Parent B, Jeanguenin L, Chaumont F, Tardieu F. A hydraulic model is compatible with rapid changes in leaf elongation under fluctuating evaporative demand and soil water status. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 164:1718-30. [PMID: 24420931 PMCID: PMC3982736 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.228379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2013] [Accepted: 12/22/2013] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Plants are constantly facing rapid changes in evaporative demand and soil water content, which affect their water status and growth. In apparent contradiction to a hydraulic hypothesis, leaf elongation rate (LER) declined in the morning and recovered upon soil rehydration considerably quicker than transpiration rate and leaf water potential (typical half-times of 30 min versus 1-2 h). The morning decline of LER began at very low light and transpiration and closely followed the stomatal opening of leaves receiving direct light, which represent a small fraction of leaf area. A simulation model in maize (Zea mays) suggests that these findings are still compatible with a hydraulic hypothesis. The small water flux linked to stomatal aperture would be sufficient to decrease water potentials of the xylem and growing tissues, thereby causing a rapid decline of simulated LER, while the simulated water potential of mature tissues declines more slowly due to a high hydraulic capacitance. The model also captured growth patterns in the evening or upon soil rehydration. Changes in plant hydraulic conductance partly counteracted those of transpiration. Root hydraulic conductivity increased continuously in the morning, consistent with the transcript abundance of Zea maize Plasma Membrane Intrinsic Protein aquaporins. Transgenic lines underproducing abscisic acid, with lower hydraulic conductivity and higher stomatal conductance, had a LER declining more rapidly than wild-type plants. Whole-genome transcriptome and phosphoproteome analyses suggested that the hydraulic processes proposed here might be associated with other rapidly occurring mechanisms. Overall, the mechanisms and model presented here may be an essential component of drought tolerance in naturally fluctuating evaporative demand and soil moisture.
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- Cecilio F. Caldeira
- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d’Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France (C.F.C., B.P., F.T.)
- Biogemma, 63028 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 2, France (M.B.); and
- Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Université Catholique de Louvain, B–1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (L.J., F.C.)
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- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d’Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France (C.F.C., B.P., F.T.)
- Biogemma, 63028 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 2, France (M.B.); and
- Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Université Catholique de Louvain, B–1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (L.J., F.C.)
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- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d’Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France (C.F.C., B.P., F.T.)
- Biogemma, 63028 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 2, France (M.B.); and
- Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Université Catholique de Louvain, B–1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (L.J., F.C.)
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- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d’Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France (C.F.C., B.P., F.T.)
- Biogemma, 63028 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 2, France (M.B.); and
- Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Université Catholique de Louvain, B–1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (L.J., F.C.)
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- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d’Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France (C.F.C., B.P., F.T.)
- Biogemma, 63028 Clermont-Ferrand cedex 2, France (M.B.); and
- Institut des Sciences de la Vie, Université Catholique de Louvain, B–1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (L.J., F.C.)
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Tardieu F, Parent B, Caldeira CF, Welcker C. Genetic and physiological controls of growth under water deficit. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 164:1628-35. [PMID: 24569846 PMCID: PMC3982729 DOI: 10.1104/pp.113.233353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2013] [Accepted: 02/24/2014] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The sensitivity of expansive growth to water deficit has a large genetic variability, which is higher than that of photosynthesis. It is observed in several species, with some genotypes stopping growth in a relatively wet soil, whereas others continue growing until the lower limit of soil-available water. The responses of growth to soil water deficit and evaporative demand share an appreciable part of their genetic control through the colocation of quantitative trait loci as do the responses of the growth of different organs to water deficit. This result may be caused by common mechanisms of action discussed in this paper (particularly, plant hydraulic properties). We propose that expansive growth, putatively linked to hydraulic processes, determines the sink strength under water deficit, whereas photosynthesis determines source strength. These findings have large consequences for plant modeling under water deficit and for the design of breeding programs.
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- François Tardieu
- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France
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- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France
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- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France
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- INRA, Unité Mixte de Recherche 759 Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, F–34060 Montpellier, France
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Nelson CJ, Li L, Millar AH. Quantitative analysis of protein turnover in plants. Proteomics 2014; 14:579-92. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201300240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2013] [Revised: 10/02/2013] [Accepted: 10/14/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Clark J. Nelson
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology; University of Western Australia; WA Australia
- Centre for Comparative Analysis of Biomolecular Networks; University of Western Australia; WA Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology; University of Western Australia; WA Australia
- Centre for Comparative Analysis of Biomolecular Networks; University of Western Australia; WA Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology; University of Western Australia; WA Australia
- Centre for Comparative Analysis of Biomolecular Networks; University of Western Australia; WA Australia
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Chen L, Dodd IC, Davies WJ, Wilkinson S. Ethylene limits abscisic acid- or soil drying-induced stomatal closure in aged wheat leaves. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2013; 36:1850-9. [PMID: 23488478 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2013] [Revised: 03/03/2013] [Accepted: 03/04/2013] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The mechanism of age-induced decreased stomatal sensitivity to abscisic acid (ABA) and soil drying has been explored here. Older, fully expanded leaves partly lost their ability to close stomata in response to foliar ABA sprays, and soil drying which stimulated endogenous ABA production, while young fully expanded leaves closed their stomata more fully. However, ABA- or soil drying-induced stomatal closure of older leaves was partly restored by pretreating plants with 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP), which can antagonize ethylene receptors, or by inoculating soil around the roots with the rhizobacterium Variovorax paradoxus 5C-2, which contains 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC)-deaminase. ACC (the immediate biosynthetic precursor of ethylene) sprays revealed higher sensitivity of stomata to ethylene in older leaves than younger leaves, despite no differences in endogenous ACC concentrations or ethylene emission. Taken together, these results indicate that the relative insensitivity of stomatal closure to ABA and soil drying in older leaves is likely due to altered stomatal sensitivity to ethylene, rather than ethylene production. To our knowledge, this is the first study to mechanistically explain diminished stomatal responses to soil moisture deficit in older leaves, and the associated reduction in leaf water-use efficiency.
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- Lin Chen
- The Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK.
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Wagg S, Mills G, Hayes F, Wilkinson S, Davies WJ. Stomata are less responsive to environmental stimuli in high background ozone in Dactylis glomerata and Ranunculus acris. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2013; 175:82-91. [PMID: 23354156 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2012] [Revised: 11/23/2012] [Accepted: 11/25/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Two mesotrophic grassland species, Ranunculus acris and Dactylis glomerata were exposed to a range of ozone treatments (16.2-89.5 ppb 24 h mean) and two watering regimes under naturally fluctuating photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), vapour pressure deficit (VPD) and temperature. Stomatal conductance was measured throughout the experiments, and the combined data set (>1000 measurements) was analysed for effects of low and high ozone on responses to environmental stimuli. We show that when D. glomerata and R. acris were grown in 72.6-89.5 ppb ozone the stomata consistently lose the ability to respond, or have reduced response, to naturally fluctuating environmental conditions in comparison to their response in low ozone. The maximum stomatal conductance (g(max)) was also significantly higher in the high ozone treatment for D. glomerata. We discuss the hypotheses for the reduced sensitivity of stomatal closure to a changing environment and the associated implications for ozone flux modelling.
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- Serena Wagg
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, UK.
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Systemic Photooxidative Stress Signalling. LONG-DISTANCE SYSTEMIC SIGNALING AND COMMUNICATION IN PLANTS 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36470-9_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Burkhardt J, Basi S, Pariyar S, Hunsche M. Stomatal penetration by aqueous solutions--an update involving leaf surface particles. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2012; 196:774-787. [PMID: 22985197 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04307.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2012] [Accepted: 07/29/2012] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The recent visualization of stomatal nanoparticle uptake ended a 40-yr-old paradigm. Assuming clean, hydrophobic leaf surfaces, the paradigm considered stomatal liquid water transport to be impossible as a result of water surface tension. However, real leaves are not clean, and deposited aerosols may change hydrophobicity and water surface tension. Droplets containing NaCl, NaClO(3), (NH(4))(2) SO(4), glyphosate, an organosilicone surfactant or various combinations thereof were evaporated on stomatous abaxial and astomatous adaxial surfaces of apple (Malus domestica) leaves. The effects on photosynthesis, necrosis and biomass were determined. Observed using an environmental scanning electron microscope, NaCl and NaClO(3) crystals on hydrophobic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cuticles underwent several humidity cycles, causing repeated deliquescence and efflorescence of the salts. All physiological parameters were more strongly affected by abaxial than adaxial treatments. Spatial expansion and dendritic crystallization of the salts occurred and cuticular hydrophobicity was decreased more rapidly by NaClO(3) than NaCl. The results confirmed the stomatal uptake of aqueous solutions. Humidity fluctuations promote the spatial expansion of salts into the stomata. The ion-specific effects point to the Hofmeister series: chaotropic ions reduce surface tension, probably contributing to the defoliant action of NaClO(3), whereas the salt spray tolerance of coastal plants is probably linked to the kosmotropic nature of chloride ions.
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- Juergen Burkhardt
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Plant Nutrition Group, University of Bonn, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Str. 13, D-53115, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Horticultural Science Group, University of Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 6, D-53121, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Plant Nutrition Group, University of Bonn, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Str. 13, D-53115, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Horticultural Science Group, University of Bonn, Auf dem Hügel 6, D-53121, Bonn, Germany
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Rogiers SY, Greer DH, Hatfield JM, Hutton RJ, Clarke SJ, Hutchinson PA, Somers A. Stomatal response of an anisohydric grapevine cultivar to evaporative demand, available soil moisture and abscisic acid. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 32:249-61. [PMID: 22199014 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpr131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Stomatal responsiveness to evaporative demand (air vapour pressure deficit (VPD)) ranges widely between species and cultivars, and mechanisms for stomatal control in response to VPD remain obscure. The interaction of irrigation and soil moisture with VPD on stomatal conductance is particularly difficult to predict, but nevertheless is critical to instantaneous transpiration and vulnerability to desiccation. Stomatal sensitivity to VPD and soil moisture was investigated in Semillon, an anisohydric Vitis vinifera L. variety whose leaf water potential (Ψ(l)) is frequently lower than that of other grapevine varieties grown under similar conditions in the warm grape-growing regions of Australia. A survey of Semillon vines across seven vineyards revealed that, regardless of irrigation treatment, midday Ψ(l) was dependent on not only soil moisture but VPD at the time of measurement. Predawn Ψ(l) was more closely correlated to not only soil moisture in dry vineyards but to night-time VPD in drip-irrigated vineyards, with incomplete rehydration during high night-time VPD. Daytime stomatal conductance was low only under severe plant water deficits, induced by extremes in dry soil. Stomatal response to VPD was inconsistent across irrigation regime; however, in an unirrigated vineyard, stomatal sensitivity to VPD-the magnitude of stomatal response to VPD-was heightened under dry soils. It was also found that stomatal sensitivity was proportional to the magnitude of stomatal conductance at a reference VPD of 1kPa. Exogenous abscisic acid (ABA) applied to roots of Semillon vines growing in a hydroponic system induced stomatal closure and, in field vines, petiole xylem sap ABA concentrations rose throughout the morning and were higher in vines with low Ψ(l). These data indicate that despite high stomatal conductance of this anisohydric variety when grown in medium to high soil moisture, increased concentrations of ABA as a result of very limited soil moisture may augment stomatal responsiveness to low VPD.
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- Suzy Y Rogiers
- National Wine and Grape Industry Centre, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia.
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Geilfus CM, Mühling KH. Transient alkalinization in the leaf apoplast of Vicia faba L. depends on NaCl stress intensity: an in situ ratio imaging study. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2012; 35:578-87. [PMID: 21954856 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02437.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The apoplast is suggested to be involved not only in the response, but also in the perception and transduction of various environmental signals. In this context, apoplastic alkalinization has previously been discussed as a general stress factor caused by abiotic and biotic stress events. In this study, an ion-sensitive fluorescence probe in combination with inverted fluorescence microscopy has been used for in planta monitoring of apoplastic shoot pH during challenging of Vicia faba L. plants by NaCl stress encountered at the roots. We demonstrate that transient increases in leaf apoplastic pH are dependent on the NaCl stress intensity. Moreover, we have visualized spatial pH gradients within the leaf apoplast. Our results indicate that these pH responses are propagated from root to leaf and that this occurs along the apoplast.
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- Christoph-Martin Geilfus
- Institute of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Christian Albrechts University, Hermann-Rodewald-Strasse 2, Kiel, Germany
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Pérez-Alfocea F, Ghanem ME, Gómez-Cadenas A, Dodd IC. Omics of Root-to-Shoot Signaling Under Salt Stress and Water Deficit. OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 2011; 15:893-901. [DOI: 10.1089/omi.2011.0092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Ciències Agràries i del Medi Natural, Universidad Jaume I, , Castellon de la Plana, Spain
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- The Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
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Vysotskaya L, Wilkinson S, Davies WJ, Arkhipova T, Kudoyarova G. The effect of competition from neighbours on stomatal conductance in lettuce and tomato plants. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2011; 34:729-37. [PMID: 21241329 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02277.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Competition decreased transpiration from young lettuce plants after 2 days, before any reductions in leaf area became apparent, and stomatal conductance (g(s) ) of lettuce and tomato plants was also reduced. Stomatal closure was not due to hydraulic signals or competition for nutrients, as soil water content, leaf water status and leaf nitrate concentrations were unaffected by neighbours. Competition-induced stomatal closure was absent in an abscisic acid (ABA)-deficient tomato mutant, flacca, indicating a fundamental involvement of ABA. Although tomato xylem sap ABA concentrations were unaffected by the presence of neighbours, ABA/pH-based stomatal modulation is still likely to underlie the response to competition, as soil and xylem sap alkalization was observed in competing plants. Competition also modulated leaf ethylene production, and treatment of lettuce plants with an ethylene perception inhibitor (1-methylcyclopropene) diminished the difference in g(s) between single and competing plants grown in a controlled environment room, but increased it in plants grown in the greenhouse: ethylene altered the extent of the stomatal response to competition. Effects of competition on g(s) are discussed in terms of the detection of the absence of neighbours: increases in g(s) and carbon fixation may allow faster initial space occupancy within an emerging community/crop.
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- Lidiya Vysotskaya
- Institute of Biology, Ufa Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Oktyabrya 69, 450054 Ufa, Russia
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Li B, Feng Z, Xie M, Sun M, Zhao Y, Liang L, Liu G, Zhang J, Jia W. Modulation of the root-sourced ABA signal along its way to the shoot in Vitis riparia x Vitis labrusca under water deficit. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2011; 62:1731-41. [PMID: 21131549 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The intensity of the root-sourced abscisic acid (ABA) signal has long been thought to decrease along its long-distance transport pathway, and hence the shoot responses to the ABA signal would be expected to become less sensitive with the increase in plant height. It is reported here that there is a significant modification of the ABA signal intensity in its pathway to leaves in grapevine (Vitis riparia×Vitis labrusca), but in contrast to the expectation that the ABA signal intensity may decrease along its long-distance transport pathway, it was found that the root-sourced ABA signal is gradually intensified along a vine for as long as 3 m under both water-stressed and non-stressed conditions. Consistent with the alterations in ABA signal intensity, stomatal sensitivity to a root-sourced ABA signal was also gradually increased from the base to the apex. Leaf stomatal conductance near the apex was more severely inhibited than in the leaves at the base of the vine. It was observed that xylem pH was significantly increased from the base to the apex, and that artificially changing the xylem sap pH to be more alkaline by feeding with buffers increased the xylem ABA concentration. Our results suggest that the pH gradient along the stem may play a role in the modification and enhancement of ABA signal intensity such that the stomata at the top of canopy can be more sensitively regulated in response to soil drying.
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- Bingbing Li
- Division of Bioregulation Research, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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Salguero-Gómez R, Casper BB. A hydraulic explanation for size-specific plant shrinkage: developmental hydraulic sectoriality. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 189:229-240. [PMID: 20831647 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03447.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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• While great attention has been paid to the mechanisms controlling plant growth, much less is known about why and how plants shrink. The modular design of plants may facilitate the independence of modules if the xylem vasculature is hydraulically sectored. We examined the hydraulic connectivity of modules comprising juveniles and adults of the aridland chamaephyte Cryptantha flava (Boraginaceae), motivated by the observation that rosette mortality is spatially aggregated in adults, but not in juveniles. • We explored spatial patterns of leaf wilting after clipping a single lateral root, tracked physiological dyes taken up by a single root, and measured within-plant variation in leaf water potentials after watering a portion of the root system. We then measured xylem anatomical features related to hydraulic connectivity. • Our approaches revealed hydraulic integration in juveniles but hydraulic sectoriality in adults. We attribute such developmental changes to increasing distances between xylem bundles, and larger xylem lumen and heartwood areas as plants age. • We have demonstrated functional sectoriality in a desert chamaephyte, and report the mechanism by which sectoriality occurs, offering a hydraulic explanation for the death of whole plant portions resulting in shrinkage of large plants, and for the high occurrence of this design in deserts.
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Tardieu F, Parent B, Simonneau T. Control of leaf growth by abscisic acid: hydraulic or non-hydraulic processes? PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2010; 33:636-47. [PMID: 20002334 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02091.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Abscisic acid (ABA) affects plant metabolism and water transfers via multiple mechanisms at cell, organ and whole plant levels. These mechanisms translate into contradictory effects on leaf growth, so the literature reports positive, null or negative effects of ABA on leaf growth upon water deficit. We review evidences based on genetic manipulations of ABA biosynthesis, feeding the plant with artificial ABA or partial root drying and provide elements to avoid confusions of effects. We propose that ABA has mainly three effects on growth. (i) Via its controlling effect on stomatal aperture and transpiration rate, an increased concentration of ABA tends to buffer the day-night alternations of leaf growth rate and the negative effect of evaporative demand. (ii) ABA tends to improve leaf growth via an increase in the conductance to water transfer in the plant as a result of increased tissue hydraulic conductivity. (iii) ABA has also a modest non-hydraulic effect which is negative in plants subjected to water deficit, either manipulated for ABA synthesis or fed with artificial ABA, but can be positive in well watered plants deficient of ABA. The overall effect of increasing ABA biosynthesis depends on the relative weight of each of these effects under different environmental scenarios.
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- François Tardieu
- INRA, UMR Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress Environnementaux, Montpellier, France
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Wilkinson S, Davies WJ. Ozone suppresses soil drying- and abscisic acid (ABA)-induced stomatal closure via an ethylene-dependent mechanism. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2009; 32:949-59. [PMID: 19302171 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.01970.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Elevated atmospheric ozone concentrations (70 ppb) reduced the sensitivity of stomatal closure to abscisic acid (ABA) in Leontodon hispidus after at least 24 h exposure (1) when detached leaves were fed ABA, and (2) when intact plants were sprayed or injected with ABA. They also reduced the sensitivity of stomatal closure to soil drying around the roots. Such effects could already be occurring under current northern hemisphere peak ambient ozone concentrations. Leaves detached from plants which had been exposed to elevated ozone concentrations generated higher concentrations of ethylene, although leaf tissue ABA concentrations were unaffected. When intact plants were pretreated with the ethylene receptor binding antagonist 1-methylcyclopropene, the stomatal response to both applied ABA and soil drying was fully restored in the presence of elevated ozone. Implications of ethylene's antagonism of the stomatal response to ABA under oxidative stress are discussed. We suggest that this may be one mechanism whereby elevated ozone induces visible injury in sensitive species. We emphasize that drought linked to climate change and tropospheric ozone pollution, are both escalating problems. Ozone will exacerbate the deleterious effects of drought on the many plant species including valuable crops that respond to this pollutant by emitting more ethylene.
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- Sally Wilkinson
- The Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK.
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Levine LH, Richards JT, Wheeler RM. Super-elevated CO2 interferes with stomatal response to ABA and night closure in soybean (Glycine max). JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2009; 166:903-13. [PMID: 19131142 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2008.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2008] [Revised: 11/10/2008] [Accepted: 11/11/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Studies have shown stomatal conductance (g(s)) of plants exposed to super-elevated CO2 (>5000micromol mol(-1)) increases in several species, in contrast to a decrease of g(s) caused by moderate CO2 enrichment. We conducted a series of experiments to determine whether super-elevated CO2 alters stomatal development and/or interferes with stomatal closure in soybean (Glycine max). Plants were grown at nominal ambient (400), elevated (1200) and super-elevated (10,000micromol mol(-1)) CO2 in controlled environmental chambers. Stomatal density of the plant leaf was examined by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), while the stomatal response to the application of exogenous abscisic acid (ABA), a phytohormone associated with water stress and stomatal control, was investigated in intact growing plants by measuring the g(s) of abaxial leaf surfaces using a steady-state porometer. Relative to the control (400micromol mol(-1) CO2) plants, daytime stomatal conductance (g(s,day)) of the plants grown under 1200 and 10,000micromol mol(-1) CO2 was reduced by 38% and 15%, respectively. Dark period stomatal conductance (g(s,night)) was unaffected by growing under 1200mumol mol(-1) CO2) but dramatically increased under 10,000micromol mol(-1) CO2. Stomatal density increased by 10% in the leaves of 10,000micromol mol(-1) CO2-grown plants, which in part contributed to the higher g(s,night) values. Elevating [CO2] to 1200micromol mol(-1) enhanced ABA-induced stomatal closure, but further increasing CO2 to 10,000micromol mol(-1) significantly reduced ABA-induced stomatal closure. These results demonstrated that stomatal response to ABA is CO2 dependent. Hence, a stomatal failure to effectively respond to an ABA signal and to close at night under extremely high CO2 may increase plants susceptibility to other abiotic stresses.
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- Lanfang H Levine
- Dynamac Corp., Space Life Sciences Laboratory, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32899, USA.
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Easlon HM, Richards JH. Drought response in self-compatible species of tomato (Solanaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2009; 96:605-11. [PMID: 21628216 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Wild tomatoes occur in habitats from the extremely dry Atacama Desert to moist areas in the Andean highlands, which may have resulted in adaptation of populations or species to differences in soil moisture availability. However, when two accessions representing extremes in habitat water availability from each of the five self-compatible species were grown in a common garden, we observed no differences in leaf physiological responses to soil drought within or between species. All five species had drought avoidance characteristics with the same threshold soil moisture availability for decline of assimilation, stomatal conductance, and leaf water potential (Ψ(l)) in response to slowly decreasing soil moisture. After rewatering, all species rapidly recovered to near predrought Ψ(l), but bulk leaf solute potential after recovery did not indicate any osmotic adjustment. The lack of variation in shoot physiological traits during soil drought is unexpected as water deficit is commonly thought to have imposed selective pressure in the evolution of plant physiology. However, species did differ in assimilation under nonstressed conditions, which may contribute to differential soil water conservation and growth or survival during drought.
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- Hsien Ming Easlon
- Department of Land, Air, & Water Resources, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616 USA
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Sharp RG, Davies WJ. Variability among species in the apoplastic pH signalling response to drying soils. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2009; 60:4363-70. [PMID: 19726633 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erp273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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After the imposition of soil drying treatments, an elevation of xylem sap pH is one of the earliest observable responses in many herbaceous model plant species. It is theorized that alkalization of sap results in a concurrent elevation in abscisic acid (ABA) concentration delivered to transpiring tissues by preventing Henderson-Hasselbalch-regulated partitioning between the apoplast and symplast. However, here it is demonstrated that the sap alkalzation response to soil drying is far from universal in higher plant species. Tests were conducted to determine how universal the pH response to drying soil was in a range of perennial species from a diverse range of plant families. The response was not found in the majority of the 22 species tested. Four species exhibited significant increases in pH, but the majority showed no significant change in xylem sap pH. There was no evolutionary relationship between the species that showed alkalization under drought stress. However, the species that alkalized sap also exhibited good control over internal water status and were the most isohydric species of those tested. None of the species exhibiting anisohydric responses alkalized xylem sap under drought stress. Regardless of alkalization response, plants still retain the ability to respond to changes in xylem sap pH when manipulated by alkaline buffer foliar sprays. This finding indicates that plants have conserved the ability to respond to changes in xylem pH and redistribute ABA, even if they do not currently utilize the mechanism when exposed to drought stress. It was found in Buddleja davidii, Euonymus fortunei, and Hydrangea serrata that the xylem sap pH response to water deficits mirrored the natural pH changes that occur as sap is transported to the leaves, indicating that plants need to be able to have naturally occurring alkalization processes in place for them to be up-regulated under drought stress.
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- R G Sharp
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
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Wilkinson S, Hartung W. Food production: reducing water consumption by manipulating long-distance chemical signalling in plants. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2009; 60:1885-1891. [PMID: 19443617 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erp121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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- Sally Wilkinson
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK.
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