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Basu S, Monika, Kumari S, Kumar G. Sub1 QTL confers submergence tolerance in rice through nitro-oxidative regulation and phytohormonal signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2024; 211:108682. [PMID: 38714133 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2024.108682] [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: 09/30/2023] [Revised: 04/12/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/09/2024]
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Constant change in global climate has become the most important limiting factor to crop productivity. Asymmetrical precipitations are causing recurrent flood events around the world. Submergence is one of the most detrimental abiotic stresses for sustainable rice production in the rainfed ecosystems of Southeast Asia. Therefore, the development of submergence-tolerant rice is an essential requirement to encounter food security. Submergence tolerance in rice is governed by the major quantitative trait locus (QTL) designated as Submergence1 (Sub1) near the centromere of chromosome 9. The introduction of the Sub1 in high-yielding rice varieties producing near-isogenic lines (NILs) has shown extreme submergence tolerance. The present study aimed to understand the responses of rice genotype IR64 and its Sub1 NIL IR64 Sub1 following one week of complete submergence treatment. Submergence imposed severe nitro-oxidative stress in both the rice genotypes, consequently disrupting the cellular redox homeostasis. In this study, IR64 exhibited higher NADPH oxidase activity accompanied by increased reactive oxygen species, reactive nitrogen species, and malondialdehyde buildups and cell death under submergence. Higher accumulations of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid, gibberellic acid, and Indole-3-acetic acid were also observed in IR64 which accelerated the plant growth and root cortical aerenchyma development following submergence. In contrast, IR64 Sub1 had enhanced submergence tolerance associated with an improved antioxidant defense system with sustainable morpho-physiological activities and restricted root aerenchyma formation. The comprehensive analyses of the responses of rice genotypes with contrasting submergence tolerance may demonstrate the intricacies of rice under complete submergence and may potentially contribute to improving stress resilience by advancing our understanding of the mechanisms of submergence tolerance in rice.
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- Sahana Basu
- Department of Life Science, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, 824236, Bihar, India
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- Department of Life Science, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, 824236, Bihar, India
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- Department of Life Science, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, 824236, Bihar, India
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- Department of Life Science, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, 824236, Bihar, India.
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He L, Yan J, Ding X, Jin H, Zhang H, Cui J, Zhou Q, Yu J. Integrated analysis of transcriptome and microRNAs associated with exogenous calcium-mediated enhancement of hypoxic tolerance in cucumber seedlings ( Cucumis sativus L.). FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 13:994268. [PMID: 36684729 PMCID: PMC9846352 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.994268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Plants often suffer from hypoxic stress due to flooding caused by extreme weather. Hypoxia usually leads to restricted oxygen supply and alters metabolic patterns from aerobic to anaerobic. Cucumber roots are fragile and highly sensitive to damage from hypoxic stress. The purpose of this study was to investigate the regulatory mechanism of exogenous calcium alleviating hypoxic stress in cucumber through transcriptome and small RNAs analysis. Three treatments were performed in this paper, including untreated-control (CK), hypoxic stress (H), and hypoxic stress + exogenous calcium treatment (H + Ca2+). A large number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified, 1,463 DEGs between CK vs H, 3,399 DEGs between H vs H + Ca2+, and 5,072 DEGs between CK vs H + Ca2+, respectively. KEGG analysis of DEGs showed that exogenous calcium could activate hormone signaling pathways (ethylene, ABA, IAA and cytokinin), transcription factors (MYB, MYB-related, bHLH, bZIP, and WRKY), calcium signaling and glycolysis pathway to mitigating hypoxic stress in cucumber seedlings. Additionally, miRNA and their target genes were detected and predicted between treatments. The target genes of these miRNAs revealed that auxin, cellulose synthase, and mitochondrial ribosomal related genes (Csa2G315390, Csa6G141390, Csa4G053280, and Csa6G310480) probably play in the improvement of the hypoxic tolerance of cucumber seedlings through exogenous calcium application. In short, our data adds new information to the mechanism of exogenous calcium mitigation of hypoxic stress injury in cucumber seedlings at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels.
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- Lizhong He
- Shanghai Key Lab of Protected Horticultural Technology, Horticultural Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab of Protected Horticultural Technology, Horticultural Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab of Protected Horticultural Technology, Horticultural Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab of Protected Horticultural Technology, Horticultural Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab of Protected Horticultural Technology, Horticultural Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab of Protected Horticultural Technology, Horticultural Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab of Protected Horticultural Technology, Horticultural Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Dushi Green Engineering Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Lab of Protected Horticultural Technology, Horticultural Research Institute, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China
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Liang Q, Dun B, Li L, Ma X, Zhang H, Su Y, Wu D. Metabolomic and transcriptomic responses of Adiantum ( Adiantum nelumboides) leaves under drought, half-waterlogging, and rewater conditions. Front Genet 2023; 14:1113470. [PMID: 37139233 PMCID: PMC10149873 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1113470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023] Open
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Introduction: Adiantum nelumboides (Adiantum) is an endangered fern with a narrow distribution along the Yangtze River in China. Due to its cliff-dwelling habit, it experiences water stress conditions, which further endangers its survival. However, no information is available about its molecular responses to drought and half-waterlogging conditions. Methods: Here, we applied five and ten days of half-waterlogging stress, five days of drought stress, and rewatering after five days of drought stress, and studied the resulting metabolome profiles and transcriptome signatures of Adiantum leaves. Results and Discussion: The metabolome profiling detected 864 metabolites. The drought and half-waterlogging stress induced up-accumulation of primary and secondary metabolites including amino acids and derivatives, nucleotides and derivatives, flavonoids, alkaloids, and phenolic acid accumulation in Adiantum leaves. Whereas, rewatering the drought-stressed seedlings reversed most of these metabolic changes. Transcriptome sequencing confirmed the differential metabolite profiles, where the genes enriched in pathways associated with these metabolites showed similar expression patterns. Overall, the half-waterlogging stress for 10 days induced large-scale metabolic and transcriptomic changes compared to half-waterlogging stress for 05 days, drought stress for 05 days or rewatering for 05 days. Conclusion: This pioneering attempt provides a detailed understanding of molecular responses of Adiantum leaves to drought and half-waterlogging stresses and rewater conditions. This study also provides useful clues for the genetic improvement of Adiantum for drought/half-waterlogging stress tolerance.
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- Qianyan Liang
- Rare Plants Research Institute of Yangtze River, Three Gorges Corporation, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Eco-Environment Protection for Yangtze River Economic Belt, Beijing, China
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- Rare Plants Research Institute of Yangtze River, Three Gorges Corporation, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Eco-Environment Protection for Yangtze River Economic Belt, Beijing, China
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- Rare Plants Research Institute of Yangtze River, Three Gorges Corporation, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Eco-Environment Protection for Yangtze River Economic Belt, Beijing, China
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- Rare Plants Research Institute of Yangtze River, Three Gorges Corporation, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Eco-Environment Protection for Yangtze River Economic Belt, Beijing, China
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- Rare Plants Research Institute of Yangtze River, Three Gorges Corporation, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Eco-Environment Protection for Yangtze River Economic Belt, Beijing, China
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- Rare Plants Research Institute of Yangtze River, Three Gorges Corporation, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Eco-Environment Protection for Yangtze River Economic Belt, Beijing, China
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- Rare Plants Research Institute of Yangtze River, Three Gorges Corporation, Yichang, Hubei Province, China
- National Engineering Research Center of Eco-Environment Protection for Yangtze River Economic Belt, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Di Wu,
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The Role of Aquaporins in Plant Growth under Conditions of Oxygen Deficiency. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231710159. [PMID: 36077554 PMCID: PMC9456501 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231710159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Revised: 08/28/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Plants frequently experience hypoxia due to flooding caused by intensive rainfall or irrigation, when they are partially or completely submerged under a layer of water. In the latter case, some resistant plants implement a hypoxia avoidance strategy by accelerating shoot elongation, which allows lifting their leaves above the water surface. This strategy is achieved due to increased water uptake by shoot cells through water channels (aquaporins, AQPs). It remains a puzzle how an increased flow of water through aquaporins into the cells of submerged shoots can be achieved, while it is well known that hypoxia inhibits the activity of aquaporins. In this review, we summarize the literature data on the mechanisms that are likely to compensate for the decline in aquaporin activity under hypoxic conditions, providing increased water entry into cells and accelerated shoot elongation. These mechanisms include changes in the expression of genes encoding aquaporins, as well as processes that occur at the post-transcriptional level. We also discuss the involvement of hormones, whose concentration changes in submerged plants, in the control of aquaporin activity.
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Brookbank BP, Patel J, Gazzarrini S, Nambara E. Role of Basal ABA in Plant Growth and Development. Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12121936. [PMID: 34946886 PMCID: PMC8700873 DOI: 10.3390/genes12121936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates various aspects of plant physiology, including promoting seed dormancy and adaptive responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. In addition, ABA plays an im-portant role in growth and development under non-stressed conditions. This review summarizes phenotypes of ABA biosynthesis and signaling mutants to clarify the roles of basal ABA in growth and development. The promotive and inhibitive actions of ABA in growth are characterized by stunted and enhanced growth of ABA-deficient and insensitive mutants, respectively. Growth regulation by ABA is both promotive and inhibitive, depending on the context, such as concentrations, tissues, and environmental conditions. Basal ABA regulates local growth including hyponastic growth, skotomorphogenesis and lateral root growth. At the cellular level, basal ABA is essential for proper chloroplast biogenesis, central metabolism, and expression of cell-cycle genes. Basal ABA also regulates epidermis development in the shoot, by inhibiting stomatal development, and deposition of hydrophobic polymers like a cuticular wax layer covering the leaf surface. In the root, basal ABA is involved in xylem differentiation and suberization of the endodermis. Hormone crosstalk plays key roles in growth and developmental processes regulated by ABA. Phenotypes of ABA-deficient and insensitive mutants indicate prominent functions of basal ABA in plant growth and development.
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- Benjamin P. Brookbank
- Department of Cells and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M3S 3G5, Canada; (B.P.B.); (J.P.)
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- Department of Cells and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M3S 3G5, Canada; (B.P.B.); (J.P.)
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Department of Cells and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M3S 3G5, Canada; (B.P.B.); (J.P.)
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada
- Correspondence: (S.G.); (E.N.)
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- Department of Cells and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M3S 3G5, Canada; (B.P.B.); (J.P.)
- Correspondence: (S.G.); (E.N.)
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Understanding a Mechanistic Basis of ABA Involvement in Plant Adaptation to Soil Flooding: The Current Standing. PLANTS 2021; 10:plants10101982. [PMID: 34685790 PMCID: PMC8537370 DOI: 10.3390/plants10101982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 09/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Soil flooding severely impairs agricultural crop production. Plants can cope with flooding conditions by embracing an orchestrated set of morphological adaptations and physiological adjustments that are regulated by the elaborated hormonal signaling network. The most prominent of these hormones is ethylene, which has been firmly established as a critical signal in flooding tolerance. ABA (abscisic acid) is also known as a “stress hormone” that modulates various responses to abiotic stresses; however, its role in flooding tolerance remains much less established. Here, we discuss the progress made in the elucidation of morphological adaptations regulated by ABA and its crosstalk with other phytohormones under flooding conditions in model plants and agriculturally important crops.
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González-Guzmán M, Gómez-Cadenas A, Arbona V. Abscisic Acid as an Emerging Modulator of the Responses of Plants to Low Oxygen Conditions. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:661789. [PMID: 33981326 PMCID: PMC8107475 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.661789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Different environmental and developmental cues involve low oxygen conditions, particularly those associated to abiotic stress conditions. It is widely accepted that plant responses to low oxygen conditions are mainly regulated by ethylene (ET). However, interaction with other hormonal signaling pathways as gibberellins (GAs), auxin (IAA), or nitric oxide (NO) has been well-documented. In this network of interactions, abscisic acid (ABA) has always been present and regarded to as a negative regulator of the development of morphological adaptations to soil flooding: hyponastic growth, adventitious root emergence, or formation of secondary aerenchyma in different plant species. However, recent evidence points toward a positive role of this plant hormone on the modulation of plant responses to hypoxia and, more importantly, on the ability to recover during the post-hypoxic period. In this work, the involvement of ABA as an emerging regulator of plant responses to low oxygen conditions alone or in interaction with other hormones is reviewed and discussed.
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Müller JT, van Veen H, Bartylla MM, Akman M, Pedersen O, Sun P, Schuurink RC, Takeuchi J, Todoroki Y, Weig AR, Sasidharan R, Mustroph A. Keeping the shoot above water - submergence triggers antithetical growth responses in stems and petioles of watercress (Nasturtium officinale). THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2021; 229:140-155. [PMID: 31792981 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The molecular mechanisms controlling underwater elongation are based extensively on studies on internode elongation in the monocot rice (Oryza sativa) and petiole elongation in Rumex rosette species. Here, we characterize underwater growth in the dicot Nasturtium officinale (watercress), a wild species of the Brassicaceae family, in which submergence enhances stem elongation and suppresses petiole growth. We used a genome-wide transcriptome analysis to identify the molecular mechanisms underlying the observed antithetical growth responses. Though submergence caused a substantial reconfiguration of the petiole and stem transcriptome, only little qualitative differences were observed between both tissues. A core submergence response included hormonal regulation and metabolic readjustment for energy conservation, whereas tissue-specific responses were associated with defense, photosynthesis, and cell wall polysaccharides. Transcriptomic and physiological characterization suggested that the established ethylene, abscisic acid (ABA), and GA growth regulatory module for underwater elongation could not fully explain underwater growth in watercress. Petiole growth suppression is likely attributed to a cell cycle arrest. Underwater stem elongation is driven by an early decline in ABA and is not primarily mediated by ethylene or GA. An enhanced stem elongation observed in the night period was not linked to hypoxia and suggests an involvement of circadian regulation.
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- Jana T Müller
- Plant Physiology, University Bayreuth, Universitaetsstraße 30, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Plant Physiology, University Bayreuth, Universitaetsstraße 30, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 361 Koshland Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 4, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Green Life Sciences Research Cluster, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Green Life Sciences Research Cluster, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, 422-8529, Japan
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- Genomics & Bioinformatics, University Bayreuth, Universitaetsstraße 30, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Plant Physiology, University Bayreuth, Universitaetsstraße 30, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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Iacopino S, Licausi F. The Contribution of Plant Dioxygenases to Hypoxia Signaling. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2020; 11:1008. [PMID: 32733514 PMCID: PMC7360844 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Dioxygenases catalyze the incorporation of one or two oxygen atoms into target organic substrates. Besides their metabolic role, these enzymes are involved in plant signaling pathways as this reaction is in several instances required for hormone metabolism, to control proteostasis and regulate chromatin accessibility. For these reasons, alteration of dioxygenase expression or activity can affect plant growth, development, and adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses. Moreover, the requirement of co-substrates and co-factors, such as oxygen, 2-oxoglutarate, and iron (Fe2+), invests dioxygenases with a potential role as cellular sensors for these molecules. For example, inhibition of cysteine deoxygenation under hypoxia elicits adaptive responses to cope with oxygen shortage. However, biochemical and molecular evidence regarding the role of other dioxygenases under low oxygen stresses is still limited, and thus further investigation is needed to identify additional sensing roles for oxygen or other co-substrates and co-factors. Here, we summarize the main signaling roles of dioxygenases in plants and discuss how they control plant growth, development and metabolism, with a focus on the adaptive responses to low oxygen conditions.
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- Sergio Iacopino
- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Institute of Life Sciences, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Institute of Life Sciences, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
- *Correspondence: Francesco Licausi,
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Minami A, Yano K, Gamuyao R, Nagai K, Kuroha T, Ayano M, Nakamori M, Koike M, Kondo Y, Niimi Y, Kuwata K, Suzuki T, Higashiyama T, Takebayashi Y, Kojima M, Sakakibara H, Toyoda A, Fujiyama A, Kurata N, Ashikari M, Reuscher S. Time-Course Transcriptomics Analysis Reveals Key Responses of Submerged Deepwater Rice to Flooding. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 176:3081-3102. [PMID: 29475897 PMCID: PMC5884608 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Accepted: 02/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Water submergence is an environmental factor that limits plant growth and survival. Deepwater rice (Oryza sativa) adapts to submergence by rapidly elongating its internodes and thereby maintaining its leaves above the water surface. We performed a comparative RNA sequencing transcriptome analysis of the shoot base region, including basal nodes, internodes, and shoot apices of seedlings at two developmental stages from two varieties with contrasting deepwater growth responses. A transcriptomic comparison between deepwater rice cv C9285 and nondeepwater rice cv Taichung 65 revealed both similar and differential expression patterns between the two genotypes during submergence. The expression of genes related to gibberellin biosynthesis, trehalose biosynthesis, anaerobic fermentation, cell wall modification, and transcription factors that include ethylene-responsive factors was significantly different between the varieties. Interestingly, in both varieties, the jasmonic acid content at the shoot base decreased during submergence, while exogenous jasmonic acid inhibited submergence-induced internode elongation in cv C9285, suggesting that jasmonic acid plays a role in the submergence response of rice. Furthermore, a targeted de novo transcript assembly revealed transcripts that were specific to cv C9285, including submergence-induced biotic stress-related genes. Our multifaceted transcriptome approach using the rice shoot base region illustrates a differential response to submergence between deepwater and nondeepwater rice. Jasmonic acid metabolism appears to participate in the submergence-mediated internode elongation response of deepwater rice.
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- Anzu Minami
- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
- ERATO Higashiyama Live-Holonics Project, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
- ERATO Higashiyama Live-Holonics Project, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
- Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University, Nagoya Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima 411-8540, Japan
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- Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima 411-8540, Japan
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- Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima 411-8540, Japan
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- Genetic Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima 411-8540, Japan
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- Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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Wany A, Kumari A, Gupta KJ. Nitric oxide is essential for the development of aerenchyma in wheat roots under hypoxic stress. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2017; 40:3002-3017. [PMID: 28857271 DOI: 10.1111/pce.13061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2017] [Revised: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 08/25/2017] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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In response to flooding/waterlogging, plants develop various anatomical changes including the formation of lysigenous aerenchyma for the delivery of oxygen to roots. Under hypoxia, plants produce high levels of nitric oxide (NO) but the role of this molecule in plant-adaptive response to hypoxia is not known. Here, we investigated whether ethylene-induced aerenchyma requires hypoxia-induced NO. Under hypoxic conditions, wheat roots produced NO apparently via nitrate reductase and scavenging of NO led to a marked reduction in aerenchyma formation. Interestingly, we found that hypoxically induced NO is important for induction of the ethylene biosynthetic genes encoding ACC synthase and ACC oxidase. Hypoxia-induced NO accelerated production of reactive oxygen species, lipid peroxidation, and protein tyrosine nitration. Other events related to cell death such as increased conductivity, increased cellulase activity, DNA fragmentation, and cytoplasmic streaming occurred under hypoxia, and opposing effects were observed by scavenging NO. The NO scavenger cPTIO (2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide potassium salt) and ethylene biosynthetic inhibitor CoCl2 both led to reduced induction of genes involved in signal transduction such as phospholipase C, G protein alpha subunit, calcium-dependent protein kinase family genes CDPK, CDPK2, CDPK 4, Ca-CAMK, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 5-phosphatase 1, and protein kinase suggesting that hypoxically induced NO is essential for the development of aerenchyma.
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- Aakanksha Wany
- National Institute for Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- National Institute for Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110067, India
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Xiang J, Wu H, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Li Z, Lin H, Chen H, Zhang J, Zhu D. Transcriptomic Analysis of Gibberellin- and Paclobutrazol-Treated Rice Seedlings under Submergence. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:E2225. [PMID: 29064391 PMCID: PMC5666904 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18102225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2017] [Revised: 10/16/2017] [Accepted: 10/19/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Submergence stress is a limiting factor for rice growing in rainfed lowland areas of the world. It is known that the phytohormone gibberellin (GA) has negative effects on submergence tolerance in rice, while its inhibitor paclobutrazol (PB) does the opposite. However, the physiological and molecular basis underlying the GA- and PB-regulated submergence response remains largely unknown. In this study, we reveal that PB could significantly enhance rice seedling survival by retaining a higher level of chlorophyll content and alcohol dehydrogenase activity, and decelerating the consumption of non-structure carbohydrate when compared with the control and GA-treated samples. Further transcriptomic analysis identified 3936 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) among the GA- and PB-treated samples and control, which are extensively involved in the submergence and other abiotic stress responses, phytohormone biosynthesis and signaling, photosynthesis, and nutrient metabolism. The results suggested that PB enhances rice survival under submergence through maintaining the photosynthesis capacity and reducing nutrient metabolism. Taken together, the current study provided new insight into the mechanism of phytohormone-regulated submergence response in rice.
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- Jing Xiang
- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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- Yuan LongPing High-TechAgriculture Co., Ltd., Changsha 410001, China.
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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- State Key Lab of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China.
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Zhang Q, Huber H, Boerakker JWT, Bosch D, de Kroon H, Visser EJW. Environmental factors constraining adventitious root formation during flooding of Solanum dulcamara. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY : FPB 2017; 44:858-866. [PMID: 32480614 DOI: 10.1071/fp16357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2016] [Accepted: 01/31/2017] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Flooding is a compound stress, imposing strong limitations on plant development. The expression of adaptive traits that alleviate flooding stress may be constrained if floodwater levels are too deep. For instance, adventitious root outgrowth is typically less profound in completely submerged plants than in partially submerged plants, suggesting additional constraints in full submergence. As both oxygen and carbohydrates are typically limited resources under submergence, we tested the effects of oxygen concentration in the floodwater and carbohydrate status of the plants on flooding-induced adventitious root formation in Solanum dulcamara L. Partially submerged plants continued to form adventitious roots in low-oxygen floodwater, whereas completely submerged plants developed hardly any roots, even in floodwater with twice the ambient oxygen concentration. This suggests that contact with the atmosphere, enabling internal aeration, is much more important to optimal adventitious root formation than floodwater oxygen concentrations. If plants were depleted of carbohydrates before flooding, adventitious root formation in partial submergence was poor, unless high light was provided. Thus, either stored or newly produced carbohydrates can fuel adventitious root formation. These results imply that the impact of an environmental stress factor like flooding on plant performance may strongly depend on the interplay with other environmental factors.
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- Qian Zhang
- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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van Veen H, Vashisht D, Akman M, Girke T, Mustroph A, Reinen E, Hartman S, Kooiker M, van Tienderen P, Schranz ME, Bailey-Serres J, Voesenek LACJ, Sasidharan R. Transcriptomes of Eight Arabidopsis thaliana Accessions Reveal Core Conserved, Genotype- and Organ-Specific Responses to Flooding Stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 172:668-689. [PMID: 27208254 PMCID: PMC5047075 DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2016] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of flooding events, with significant negative impact on agricultural productivity. These events often submerge plant aerial organs and roots, limiting growth and survival due to a severe reduction in light reactions and gas exchange necessary for photosynthesis and respiration, respectively. To distinguish molecular responses to the compound stress imposed by submergence, we investigated transcriptomic adjustments to darkness in air and under submerged conditions using eight Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) accessions differing significantly in sensitivity to submergence. Evaluation of root and rosette transcriptomes revealed an early transcriptional and posttranscriptional response signature that was conserved primarily across genotypes, although flooding susceptibility-associated and genotype-specific responses also were uncovered. Posttranscriptional regulation encompassed darkness- and submergence-induced alternative splicing of transcripts from pathways involved in the alternative mobilization of energy reserves. The organ-specific transcriptome adjustments reflected the distinct physiological status of roots and shoots. Root-specific transcriptome changes included marked up-regulation of chloroplast-encoded photosynthesis and redox-related genes, whereas those of the rosette were related to the regulation of development and growth processes. We identified a novel set of tolerance genes, recognized mainly by quantitative differences. These included a transcriptome signature of more pronounced gluconeogenesis in tolerant accessions, a response that included stress-induced alternative splicing. This study provides organ-specific molecular resolution of genetic variation in submergence responses involving interactions between darkness and low-oxygen constraints of flooding stress and demonstrates that early transcriptome plasticity, including alternative splicing, is associated with the ability to cope with a compound environmental stress.
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- Hans van Veen
- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (H.v.V., D.V., E.R., S.H., M.K., J.B.-S., L.A.C.J.V., R.S.);Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, 56127 Pisa, Italy (H.v.V.);Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands (M.A., P.v.T.);Center for Plant Cell Biology, Botany, and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (T.G., J.B.-S.);Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany (A.M.); andBiosystematics Group, Wageningen University, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands (M.E.S.)
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Zhang JY, Huang SN, Wang G, Xuan JP, Guo ZR. Overexpression of Actinidia deliciosa pyruvate decarboxylase 1 gene enhances waterlogging stress in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2016; 106:244-52. [PMID: 27191596 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2016.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2015] [Revised: 05/06/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Ethanolic fermentation is classically associated with waterlogging tolerance when plant cells switch from respiration to anaerobic fermentation. Pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC), which catalyzes the first step in this pathway, is thought to be the main regulatory enzyme. Here, we cloned a full-length PDC cDNA sequence from kiwifruit, named AdPDC1. We determined the expression of the AdPDC1 gene in kiwifruit under different environmental stresses using qRT-PCR, and the results showed that the increase of AdPDC1 expression during waterlogging stress was much higher than that during salt, cold, heat and drought stresses. Overexpression of kiwifruit AdPDC1 in transgenic Arabidopsis enhanced the resistance to waterlogging stress but could not enhance resistance to cold stress at five weeks old seedlings. Overexpression of kiwifruit AdPDC1 in transgenic Arabidopsis could not enhance resistance to NaCl and mannitol stresses at the stage of seed germination and in early seedlings. These results suggested that the kiwifruit AdPDC1 gene is required during waterlogging but might not be required during other environmental stresses. Expression of the AdPDC1 gene was down-regulated by abscisic acid (ABA) in kiwifruit, and overexpression of the AdPDC1 gene in Arabidopsis inhibited seed germination and root length under ABA treatment, indicating that ABA might negatively regulate the AdPDC1 gene under waterlogging stress.
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- Ji-Yu Zhang
- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210014, China.
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- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210014, China
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- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210014, China
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- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210014, China
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- Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210014, China.
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Gibbs DJ, Conde JV, Berckhan S, Prasad G, Mendiondo GM, Holdsworth MJ. Group VII Ethylene Response Factors Coordinate Oxygen and Nitric Oxide Signal Transduction and Stress Responses in Plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 169:23-31. [PMID: 25944828 PMCID: PMC4577381 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2015] [Accepted: 04/30/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The group VII ethylene response factors (ERFVIIs) are plant-specific transcription factors that have emerged as important regulators of abiotic and biotic stress responses, in particular, low-oxygen stress. A defining feature of ERFVIIs is their conserved N-terminal domain, which renders them oxygen- and nitric oxide (NO)-dependent substrates of the N-end rule pathway of targeted proteolysis. In the presence of these gases, ERFVIIs are destabilized, whereas an absence of either permits their accumulation; ERFVIIs therefore coordinate plant homeostatic responses to oxygen availability and control a wide range of NO-mediated processes. ERFVIIs have a variety of context-specific protein and gene interaction partners, and also modulate gibberellin and abscisic acid signaling to regulate diverse developmental processes and stress responses. This update discusses recent advances in our understanding of ERFVII regulation and function, highlighting their role as central regulators of gaseous signal transduction at the interface of ethylene, oxygen, and NO signaling.
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- Daniel J Gibbs
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, United Kingdom (D.J.G.); andDepartment of Plant and Crop Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, United Kingdom (J.V.C., S.B., G.P., G.M.M., M.J.H.)
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, United Kingdom (D.J.G.); andDepartment of Plant and Crop Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, United Kingdom (J.V.C., S.B., G.P., G.M.M., M.J.H.)
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, United Kingdom (D.J.G.); andDepartment of Plant and Crop Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, United Kingdom (J.V.C., S.B., G.P., G.M.M., M.J.H.)
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, United Kingdom (D.J.G.); andDepartment of Plant and Crop Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, United Kingdom (J.V.C., S.B., G.P., G.M.M., M.J.H.)
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, United Kingdom (D.J.G.); andDepartment of Plant and Crop Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, United Kingdom (J.V.C., S.B., G.P., G.M.M., M.J.H.)
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, United Kingdom (D.J.G.); andDepartment of Plant and Crop Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Leicestershire LE12 5RD, United Kingdom (J.V.C., S.B., G.P., G.M.M., M.J.H.)
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Sasidharan R, Voesenek LACJ. Ethylene-Mediated Acclimations to Flooding Stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2015; 169:3-12. [PMID: 25897003 PMCID: PMC4577390 DOI: 10.1104/pp.15.00387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2015] [Accepted: 04/18/2015] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Flooding is detrimental for plants, primarily because of restricted gas exchange underwater, which leads to an energy and carbohydrate deficit. Impeded gas exchange also causes rapid accumulation of the volatile ethylene in all flooded plant cells. Although several internal changes in the plant can signal the flooded status, it is the pervasive and rapid accumulation of ethylene that makes it an early and reliable flooding signal. Not surprisingly, it is a major regulator of several flood-adaptive plant traits. Here, we discuss these major ethylene-mediated traits, their functional relevance, and the recent progress in identifying the molecular and signaling events underlying these traits downstream of ethylene. We also speculate on the role of ethylene in postsubmergence recovery and identify several questions for future investigations.
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- Rashmi Sasidharan
- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584-CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584-CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Yan H, Liu R, Liu Z, Wang X, Luo W, Sheng L. Growth and Physiological Responses to Water Depths in Carex schmidtii Meinsh. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0128176. [PMID: 26009895 PMCID: PMC4444289 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2014] [Accepted: 04/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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A greenhouse experiment was performed to investigate growth and physiological responses to water depth in completely submerged condition of a wetland plant Carex schmidtii Meinsh., one of the dominant species in the Longwan Crater Lake wetlands (China). Growth and physiological responses of C. schmidtii were investigated by growing under control (non-submerged) and three submerged conditions (5 cm, 15 cm and 25 cm water level). Total biomass was highest in control, intermediate in 5 cm treatment and lowest in the other two submerged treatments. Water depth prominently affected the first-order lateral root to main root mass ratio. Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) activity decreased but malondialdehyde (MDA) content increased as water depth increased. The starch contents showed no differences among the various treatments at the end of the experiment. However, soluble sugar contents were highest in control, intermediate in 5 cm and 15 cm treatments and lowest in 25 cm treatment. Our data suggest that submergence depth affected some aspects of growth and physiology of C. schmidtii, which can reduce anoxia damage not only through maintaining the non-elongation strategy in shoot part but also by adjusting biomass allocation to different root orders rather than adjusting root-shoot biomass allocation.
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- Hong Yan
- Key laboratory for Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration of National Environmental Protection, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
- Jilin provincial academy of forestry science, Changchun, China
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- Key laboratory for Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration of National Environmental Protection, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Key laboratory for Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration of National Environmental Protection, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Key laboratory for Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration of National Environmental Protection, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Key laboratory for Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration of National Environmental Protection, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
- Division of Biological Sciences, the University of Montana, Missoula, United States of America
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- Key laboratory for Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration of National Environmental Protection, School of Environment, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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Voesenek LACJ, Bailey-Serres J. Flood adaptive traits and processes: an overview. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2015; 206:57-73. [PMID: 25580769 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 343] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2014] [Accepted: 10/30/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Unanticipated flooding challenges plant growth and fitness in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Here we describe mechanisms of developmental plasticity and metabolic modulation that underpin adaptive traits and acclimation responses to waterlogging of root systems and submergence of aerial tissues. This includes insights into processes that enhance ventilation of submerged organs. At the intersection between metabolism and growth, submergence survival strategies have evolved involving an ethylene-driven and gibberellin-enhanced module that regulates growth of submerged organs. Opposing regulation of this pathway is facilitated by a subgroup of ethylene-response transcription factors (ERFs), which include members that require low O₂ or low nitric oxide (NO) conditions for their stabilization. These transcription factors control genes encoding enzymes required for anaerobic metabolism as well as proteins that fine-tune their function in transcription and turnover. Other mechanisms that control metabolism and growth at seed, seedling and mature stages under flooding conditions are reviewed, as well as findings demonstrating that true endurance of submergence includes an ability to restore growth following the deluge. Finally, we highlight molecular insights obtained from natural variation of domesticated and wild species that occupy different hydrological niches, emphasizing the value of understanding natural flooding survival strategies in efforts to stabilize crop yields in flood-prone environments.
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- Laurentius A C J Voesenek
- Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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Pierik R, Testerink C. The art of being flexible: how to escape from shade, salt, and drought. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2014; 166:5-22. [PMID: 24972713 PMCID: PMC4149730 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.239160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Environmental stresses, such as shading of the shoot, drought, and soil salinity, threaten plant growth, yield, and survival. Plants can alleviate the impact of these stresses through various modes of phenotypic plasticity, such as shade avoidance and halotropism. Here, we review the current state of knowledge regarding the mechanisms that control plant developmental responses to shade, salt, and drought stress. We discuss plant hormones and cellular signaling pathways that control shoot branching and elongation responses to shade and root architecture modulation in response to drought and salinity. Because belowground stresses also result in aboveground changes and vice versa, we then outline how a wider palette of plant phenotypic traits is affected by the individual stresses. Consequently, we argue for a research agenda that integrates multiple plant organs, responses, and stresses. This will generate the scientific understanding needed for future crop improvement programs aiming at crops that can maintain yields under variable and suboptimal conditions.
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- Ronald Pierik
- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (R.P.); andPlant Physiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands (C.T.)
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands (R.P.); andPlant Physiology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands (C.T.)
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Zou X, Hu C, Zeng L, Cheng Y, Xu M, Zhang X. A comparison of screening methods to identify waterlogging tolerance in the field in Brassica napus L. during plant ontogeny. PLoS One 2014; 9:e89731. [PMID: 24594687 PMCID: PMC3940661 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2013] [Accepted: 01/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Waterlogging tolerance is typically evaluated at a specific development stage, with an implicit assumption that differences in waterlogging tolerance expressed in these systems will result in improved yield performance in fields. It is necessary to examine these criteria in fields. In the present study, three experiments were conducted to screen waterlogging tolerance in 25 rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) varieties at different developmental stages, such as seedling establishment stage and seedling stage at controlled environment, and maturity stage in the fields. The assessments for physiological parameters at three growth stages suggest that there were difference of waterlogging tolerance at all the development stages, providing an important basis for further development of breeding more tolerant materials. The results indicated that flash waterlogging restricts plant growth and growth is still restored after removal of the stress. Correlation analysis between waterlogging tolerance coefficient (WTC) of yield and other traits revealed that there was consistency in waterlogging tolerance of the genotypes until maturity, and good tolerance at seedling establishment stage and seedling stage can guarantee tolerance in later stages. The waterlogging-tolerant plants could be selected using some specific traits at any stage, and selections would be more effective at the seedling establishment stage. Thus, our study provides a method for screening waterlogging tolerance, which would enable the suitable basis for initial selection of a large number of germplasm or breeding populations for waterlogging tolerance and help for verifying their potential utility in crop-improvement.
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- Xiling Zou
- Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Improvement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Improvement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Improvement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Improvement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Improvement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory of Oil Crop Biology and Genetic Improvement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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New Insights into the Metabolic and Molecular Mechanism of Plant Response to Anaerobiosis. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 311:231-64. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800179-0.00005-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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van Veen H, Mustroph A, Barding GA, Vergeer-van Eijk M, Welschen-Evertman RA, Pedersen O, Visser EJ, Larive CK, Pierik R, Bailey-Serres J, Voesenek LA, Sasidharan R. Two Rumex species from contrasting hydrological niches regulate flooding tolerance through distinct mechanisms. THE PLANT CELL 2013; 25:4691-707. [PMID: 24285788 PMCID: PMC3875744 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.119016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2013] [Revised: 09/24/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Global climate change has increased flooding events, which affect both natural vegetation dynamics and crop productivity. The flooded environment is lethal for most plant species because it restricts gas exchange and induces an energy and carbon crisis. Flooding survival strategies have been studied in Oryza sativa, a cultivated monocot. However, our understanding of plant adaptation to natural flood-prone environments remains scant, even though wild plants represent a valuable resource of tolerance mechanisms that could be used to generate stress-tolerant crops. Here we identify mechanisms that mediate the distinct flooding survival strategies of two related wild dicot species: Rumex palustris and Rumex acetosa. Whole transcriptome sequencing and metabolite profiling reveal flooding-induced metabolic reprogramming specific to R. acetosa. By contrast, R. palustris uses the early flooding signal ethylene to increase survival by regulating shade avoidance and photomorphogenesis genes to outgrow submergence and by priming submerged plants for future low oxygen stress. These results provide molecular resolution of flooding survival strategies of two species occupying distinct hydrological niches. Learning how these contrasting flood adaptive strategies evolved in nature will be instrumental for the development of stress-tolerant crop varieties that deliver enhanced yields in a changing climate.
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- Hans van Veen
- Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Bayreuth University, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Freshwater Biological Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK-3400 Hillerød, Denmark
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- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521
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- Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Centre for Biosystems Genomics, 6708 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Centre for Biosystems Genomics, 6708 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Voesenek LACJ, Bailey-Serres J. Flooding tolerance: O2 sensing and survival strategies. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2013; 16:647-653. [PMID: 23830867 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2013.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2013] [Revised: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 06/11/2013] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The investigation of flooding survival strategies in model, crop and wild plant species has yielded insights into molecular, physiological and developmental mechanisms of soil flooding (waterlogging) and submergence survival. The antithetical flooding escape and quiescence strategies of deepwater and submergence tolerant rice (Oryza sativa), respectively, are regulated by members of a clade of ethylene responsive factor transcriptional activators. This knowledge paved the way for the discovery that these proteins are targets of a highly conserved O2-sensing protein turnover mechanism in Arabidopsis thaliana. Further examples of genes that regulate transcription, root and shoot metabolism or development during floods have emerged. With the rapid advancement of genomic technologies, the mining of natural genetic variation in flooding tolerant wild species may ultimately benefit crop production.
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- L A C J Voesenek
- Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Gommers CMM, Visser EJW, St Onge KR, Voesenek LACJ, Pierik R. Shade tolerance: when growing tall is not an option. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2013; 18:65-71. [PMID: 23084466 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2012] [Revised: 09/04/2012] [Accepted: 09/21/2012] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Two different plant strategies exist to deal with shade: shade avoidance and shade tolerance. All shade-exposed plants optimize photosynthesis to adapt to the decrease in light quality and quantity. When shaded, most species in open habitats express the shade-avoidance syndrome, a growth response to escape shade. Shade-tolerant species from forest understories cannot outgrow surrounding trees and adopt a tolerance response. Unlike shade avoidance, virtually nothing is known about regulation of shade tolerance. In this opinion article, we discuss potential modes of molecular regulation to adopt a shade-tolerance rather than a shade-avoidance strategy. We argue that molecular approaches using model and non-model species should help identify the molecular pathways that underpin shade tolerance, thus providing knowledge for further crop improvement.
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- Charlotte M M Gommers
- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Bailey-Serres J, Lee SC, Brinton E. Waterproofing crops: effective flooding survival strategies. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 160:1698-709. [PMID: 23093359 PMCID: PMC3510103 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.208173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2012] [Accepted: 10/22/2012] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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- Julia Bailey-Serres
- Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Science, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0124, USA.
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Fukao T, Yeung E, Bailey-Serres J. The submergence tolerance gene SUB1A delays leaf senescence under prolonged darkness through hormonal regulation in rice. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2012; 160:1795-807. [PMID: 23073696 PMCID: PMC3510111 DOI: 10.1104/pp.112.207738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2012] [Accepted: 10/13/2012] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Leaf senescence is a natural age-dependent process that is induced prematurely by various environmental stresses. Typical alterations during leaf senescence include breakdown of chlorophyll, a shift to catabolism of energy reserves, and induction of senescence-associated genes, all of which can occur during submergence, drought, and constant darkness. Here, we evaluated the influence of the submergence tolerance regulator, SUBMERGENCE1A (SUB1A), in the acclimation responses during leaf senescence caused by prolonged darkness in rice (Oryza sativa). SUB1A messenger RNA was highly induced by prolonged darkness in a near-isogenic line containing SUB1A. Genotypes with conditional and ectopic overexpression of SUB1A significantly delayed loss of leaf color and enhanced recovery from dark stress. Physiological analysis revealed that SUB1A postpones dark-induced senescence through the maintenance of chlorophyll and carbohydrate reserves in photosynthetic tissue. This delay allowed leaves of SUB1A genotypes to recover photosynthetic activity more quickly upon reexposure to light. SUB1A also restricted the transcript accumulation of representative senescence-associated genes. Jasmonate and salicylic acid are positive regulators of leaf senescence, but ectopic overexpression of SUB1A dampened responsiveness to both hormones in the context of senescence. We found that ethylene accelerated senescence stimulated by darkness and jasmonate, although SUB1A significantly restrained dark-induced ethylene accumulation. Overall, SUB1A genotypes displayed altered responses to prolonged darkness by limiting ethylene production and responsiveness to jasmonate and salicylic acid, thereby dampening the breakdown of chlorophyll, carbohydrates, and the accumulation of senescence-associated messenger RNAs. A delay of leaf senescence conferred by SUB1A can contribute to the enhancement of tolerance to submergence, drought, and oxidative stress.
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Huber H, Chen X, Hendriks M, Keijsers D, Voesenek LACJ, Pierik R, Poorter H, de Kroon H, Visser EJW. Plasticity as a plastic response: how submergence-induced leaf elongation in Rumex palustris depends on light and nutrient availability in its early life stage. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2012; 194:572-582. [PMID: 22335539 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04075.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Plants may experience different environmental cues throughout their development which interact in determining their phenotype. This paper tests the hypothesis that environmental conditions experienced early during ontogeny affect the phenotypic response to subsequent environmental cues. This hypothesis was tested by exposing different accessions of Rumex palustris to different light and nutrient conditions, followed by subsequent complete submergence. Final leaf length and submergence-induced plasticity were affected by the environmental conditions experienced at early developmental stages. In developmentally older leaves, submergence-induced elongation was lower in plants previously subjected to high-light conditions. Submergence-induced elongation of developmentally younger leaves, however, was larger when pregrown in high light. High-light and low-nutrient conditions led to an increase of nonstructural carbohydrates in the plants. There was a positive correlation between submergence-induced leaf elongation and carbohydrate concentration and content in roots and shoots, but not with root and shoot biomass before submergence. These results show that conditions experienced by young plants modulate the responses to subsequent environmental conditions, in both magnitude and direction. Internal resource status interacts with cues perceived at different developmental stages in determining plastic responses to the environment.
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- Heidrun Huber
- Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Plant Ecophysiology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Plant Sciences (IBG-2), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Bailey-Serres J, Fukao T, Gibbs DJ, Holdsworth MJ, Lee SC, Licausi F, Perata P, Voesenek LACJ, van Dongen JT. Making sense of low oxygen sensing. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2012; 17:129-38. [PMID: 22280796 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2011.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 307] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2011] [Revised: 12/06/2011] [Accepted: 12/13/2011] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Plant-specific group VII Ethylene Response Factor (ERF) transcription factors have emerged as pivotal regulators of flooding and low oxygen responses. In rice (Oryza sativa), these proteins regulate contrasting strategies of flooding survival. Recent studies on Arabidopsis thaliana group VII ERFs show they are stabilized under hypoxia but destabilized under oxygen-replete conditions via the N-end rule pathway of targeted proteolysis. Oxygen-dependent sequestration at the plasma membrane maintains at least one of these proteins, RAP2.12, under normoxia. Remarkably, SUB1A, the rice group VII ERF that enables prolonged submergence tolerance, appears to evade oxygen-regulated N-end rule degradation. We propose that the turnover of group VII ERFs is of ecological relevance in wetland species and might be manipulated to improve flood tolerance of crops.
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- Julia Bailey-Serres
- Center for Plant Cell Biology, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0124, USA.
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Zhang H, Li H, Yuan L, Wang Z, Yang J, Zhang J. Post-anthesis alternate wetting and moderate soil drying enhances activities of key enzymes in sucrose-to-starch conversion in inferior spikelets of rice. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2012; 63:215-27. [PMID: 21926094 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/err263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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This study tested the hypothesis that a post-anthesis moderate soil drying can improve grain filling through regulating the key enzymes in the sucrose-to-starch pathway in the grains of rice (Oryza sativa L.). Two rice cultivars were field grown and two irrigation regimes, alternate wetting and moderate soil drying (WMD) and conventional irrigation (CI, continuously flooded), were imposed during the grain-filling period. The grain-filling rate and activities of four key enzymes in sucrose-to-starch conversion, sucrose synthase (SuSase), adenosine diphosphate-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGPase), starch synthase (StSase), and starch branching enzyme (SBE), showed no significant difference between WMD and CI regimes for the earlier flowering superior spikelets. However, they were significantly enhanced by the WMD for the later flowering inferior spikelets. The activities of both soluble and insoluble acid invertase in the grains were little affected by the WMD. The two cultivars showed the same tendencies. The activities of SuSase, AGPase, StSase, and SBE in grains were very significantly correlated with the grain-filling rate. The abscisic acid (ABA) concentration in inferior spikelets was remarkably increased in the WMD and very significantly correlated with activities of SuSase, AGPase, StSase, and SBE. Application of ABA on plants under CI produced similar results to those seen in plants receiving WMD. Applying fluridone, an indirect inhibitor of ABA synthesis, produced the opposite effect. The results suggest that post-anthesis WMD could enhance sink strength by regulating the key enzymes involved, and consequently, increase the grain-filling rate and grain weight of inferior spikelets. ABA plays an important role in this process.
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- Hao Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China
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Wanke D. The ABA-mediated switch between submersed and emersed life-styles in aquatic macrophytes. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2011; 124:467-75. [PMID: 21674229 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-011-0434-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2011] [Accepted: 05/10/2011] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Hydrophytes comprise aquatic macrophytes from various taxa that are able to sustain and to complete their lifecycle in a flooded environment. Their ancestors, however, underwent adaptive processes to withstand drought on land and became partially or completely independent of water for sexual reproduction. Interestingly, the step backwards into the high-density aquatic medium happened independently several times in numerous plant taxa. For flowering plants, this submersed life-style is especially difficult as they need to erect their floral organs above the water surface to be pollinated. Moreover, fresh-water plants evolved the adaptive mechanism of heterophylly, which enabled them to switch between a submersed and an emersed leaf morphology. The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) is a key factor of heterophylly induction in aquatic plants and is a major switch between a submersed and emersed life. The mechanisms of ABA signal perception and transduction appear to be conserved throughout the evolution of basal plants to angiosperms and from terrestrial to aquatic plants. This review summarizes the interplay of environmental factors that act through ABA to orchestrate adaptation of plants to their aquatic environment.
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- Dierk Wanke
- ZMBP-Plant Physiology, Tübingen University, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
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Chen X, Visser EJW, de Kroon H, Pierik R, Voesenek LACJ, Huber H. Fitness consequences of natural variation in flooding-induced shoot elongation in Rumex palustris. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 190:409-420. [PMID: 21261627 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03639.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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• Plants can respond to their environment by morphological plasticity. Generally, the potential benefits of adaptive plastic responses are beyond doubt under predictable environmental changes. However, the net benefits may be less straightforward when plants encounter temporal stresses, such as flooding in river flood plains. • Here, we tested whether the balance of costs and benefits associated with flooding-induced shoot elongation depends on the flooding regime, by subjecting Rumex palustris plants with different elongation capacity to submergence of different frequency and duration. • Our results showed that reaching the surface by shoot elongation is associated with fitness benefits, as under less frequent, but longer, flooding episodes plants emerging above the floodwater had greater biomass production than plants that were kept below the surface. As we predicted, slow-elongating plants had clear advantages over fast-elongating ones if submergence was frequent but of short duration, indicating that elongation also incurs costs. • Our data suggest that high costs select for weak plasticity under frequent environmental change. In contrast to our predictions, however, fast-elongating plants did not have an overall advantage over slow-elongating plants when floods lasted longer. This indicates that the delicate balance between benefits and costs of flooding-induced elongation depends on the specific characteristics of the flooding regime.
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- Xin Chen
- Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Lee SC, Mustroph A, Sasidharan R, Vashisht D, Pedersen O, Oosumi T, Voesenek LACJ, Bailey-Serres J. Molecular characterization of the submergence response of the Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Columbia. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 190:457-71. [PMID: 21231933 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03590.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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• A detailed description of the molecular response of Arabidopsis thaliana to submergence can aid the identification of genes that are critical to flooding survival. • Rosette-stage plants were fully submerged in complete darkness and shoot and root tissue was harvested separately after the O(2) partial pressure of the petiole and root had stabilized at c. 6 and 0.1 kPa, respectively. As controls, plants were untreated or exposed to darkness. Following quantitative profiling of cellular mRNAs with the Affymetrix ATH1 platform, changes in the transcriptome in response to submergence, early darkness, and O(2)-deprivation were evaluated by fuzzy k-means clustering. This identified genes co-regulated at the conditional, developmental or organ-specific level. Mutants for 10 differentially expressed HYPOXIA-RESPONSIVE UNKNOWN PROTEIN (HUP) genes were screened for altered submergence tolerance. • The analysis identified 34 genes that were ubiquitously co-regulated by submergence and O(2) deprivation. The biological functions of these include signaling, transcription, and anaerobic energy metabolism. HUPs comprised 40% of the co-regulated transcripts and mutants of seven of these genes were significantly altered in submergence tolerance. • The results define transcriptomic adjustments in response to submergence in the dark and demonstrate that the manipulation of HUPs can alter submergence tolerance.
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- Seung Cho Lee
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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Fukao T, Yeung E, Bailey-Serres J. The submergence tolerance regulator SUB1A mediates crosstalk between submergence and drought tolerance in rice. THE PLANT CELL 2011; 23:412-27. [PMID: 21239643 PMCID: PMC3051255 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.110.080325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 290] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
Abstract
Submergence and drought are major constraints to rice (Oryza sativa) production in rain-fed farmlands, both of which can occur sequentially during a single crop cycle. SUB1A, an ERF transcription factor found in limited rice accessions, dampens ethylene production and gibberellic acid responsiveness during submergence, economizing carbohydrate reserves and significantly prolonging endurance. Here, we evaluated the functional role of SUB1A in acclimation to dehydration. Comparative analysis of genotypes with and without SUB1A revealed that SUB1A enhanced recovery from drought at the vegetative stage through reduction of leaf water loss and lipid peroxidation and increased expression of genes associated with acclimation to dehydration. Overexpression of SUB1A augmented ABA responsiveness, thereby activating stress-inducible gene expression. Paradoxically, vegetative tissue undergoes dehydration upon desubmergence even though the soil contains sufficient water, indicating that leaf desiccation occurs in the natural progression of a flooding event. Desubmergence caused the upregulation of gene transcripts associated with acclimation to dehydration, with higher induction in SUB1A genotypes. SUB1A also restrained accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in aerial tissue during drought and desubmergence. Consistently, SUB1A increased the abundance of transcripts encoding ROS scavenging enzymes, resulting in enhanced tolerance to oxidative stress. Therefore, in addition to providing robust submergence tolerance, SUB1A improves survival of rapid dehydration following desubmergence and water deficit during drought.
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