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Chen L, Ghannoum O, Furbank RT. Sugar sensing in C4 source leaves: a gap that needs to be filled. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2024; 75:3818-3834. [PMID: 38642398 PMCID: PMC11233418 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 04/22/2024]
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Plant growth depends on sugar production and export by photosynthesizing source leaves and sugar allocation and import by sink tissues (grains, roots, stems, and young leaves). Photosynthesis and sink demand are tightly coordinated through metabolic (substrate, allosteric) feedback and signalling (sugar, hormones) mechanisms. Sugar signalling integrates sugar production with plant development and environmental cues. In C3 plants (e.g. wheat and rice), it is well documented that sugar accumulation in source leaves, due to source-sink imbalance, negatively feeds back on photosynthesis and plant productivity. However, we have a limited understanding about the molecular mechanisms underlying those feedback regulations, especially in C4 plants (e.g. maize, sorghum, and sugarcane). Recent work with the C4 model plant Setaria viridis suggested that C4 leaves have different sugar sensing thresholds and behaviours relative to C3 counterparts. Addressing this research priority is critical because improving crop yield requires a better understanding of how plants coordinate source activity with sink demand. Here we review the literature, present a model of action for sugar sensing in C4 source leaves, and suggest ways forward.
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- Lily Chen
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Campus, NSW, 2753, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Campus, NSW, 2753, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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Pandian K, Matsui M, Hankemeier T, Ali A, Okubo-Kurihara E. Advances in single-cell metabolomics to unravel cellular heterogeneity in plant biology. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 193:949-965. [PMID: 37338502 PMCID: PMC10517197 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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Single-cell metabolomics is a powerful tool that can reveal cellular heterogeneity and can elucidate the mechanisms of biological phenomena in detail. It is a promising approach in studying plants, especially when cellular heterogeneity has an impact on different biological processes. In addition, metabolomics, which can be regarded as a detailed phenotypic analysis, is expected to answer previously unrequited questions which will lead to expansion of crop production, increased understanding of resistance to diseases, and in other applications as well. In this review, we will introduce the flow of sample acquisition and single-cell techniques to facilitate the adoption of single-cell metabolomics. Furthermore, the applications of single-cell metabolomics will be summarized and reviewed.
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- Kanchana Pandian
- Metabolomics and Analytics Centre, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Einstein Road 55, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- RIKEN, Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Metabolomics and Analytics Centre, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Einstein Road 55, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Metabolomics and Analytics Centre, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Einstein Road 55, 2333 CC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- RIKEN, Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
- College of Science, Rikkyo University, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
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Baca Cabrera JC, Hirl RT, Zhu J, Schäufele R, Ogée J, Schnyder H. 18 O enrichment of sucrose and photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic leaf water in a C 3 grass-atmospheric drivers and physiological relations. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2023. [PMID: 37376738 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 05/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
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The 18 O enrichment (Δ18 O) of leaf water affects the Δ18 O of photosynthetic products such as sucrose, generating an isotopic archive of plant function and past climate. However, uncertainty remains as to whether leaf water compartmentation between photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic tissue affects the relationship between Δ18 O of bulk leaf water (Δ18 OLW ) and leaf sucrose (Δ18 OSucrose ). We grew Lolium perenne (a C3 grass) in mesocosm-scale, replicated experiments with daytime relative humidity (50% or 75%) and CO2 level (200, 400 or 800 μmol mol-1 ) as factors, and determined Δ18 OLW , Δ18 OSucrose and morphophysiological leaf parameters, including transpiration (Eleaf ), stomatal conductance (gs ) and mesophyll conductance to CO2 (gm ). The Δ18 O of photosynthetic medium water (Δ18 OSSW ) was estimated from Δ18 OSucrose and the equilibrium fractionation between water and carbonyl groups (εbio ). Δ18 OSSW was well predicted by theoretical estimates of leaf water at the evaporative site (Δ18 Oe ) with adjustments that correlated with gas exchange parameters (gs or total conductance to CO2 ). Isotopic mass balance and published work indicated that nonphotosynthetic tissue water was a large fraction (~0.53) of bulk leaf water. Δ18 OLW was a poor proxy for Δ18 OSucrose , mainly due to opposite Δ18 O responses of nonphotosynthetic tissue water (Δ18 Onon-SSW ) relative to Δ18 OSSW , driven by atmospheric conditions.
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- Juan C Baca Cabrera
- Technische Universität München, TUM School of Life Sciences, Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
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- Technische Universität München, TUM School of Life Sciences, Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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- Technische Universität München, TUM School of Life Sciences, Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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- Technische Universität München, TUM School of Life Sciences, Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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- Technische Universität München, TUM School of Life Sciences, Lehrstuhl für Grünlandlehre, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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Chen L, Ganguly DR, Shafik SH, Ermakova M, Pogson BJ, Grof CPL, Sharwood RE, Furbank RT. Elucidating the role of SWEET13 in phloem loading of the C 4 grass Setaria viridis. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2022; 109:615-632. [PMID: 34780111 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Photosynthetic efficiency and sink demand are tightly correlated with rates of phloem loading, where maintaining low cytosolic sugar concentrations is paramount to prevent the downregulation of photosynthesis. Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters (SWEETs) are thought to have a pivotal role in the apoplastic phloem loading of C4 grasses. SWEETs have not been well studied in C4 species, and their investigation is complicated by photosynthesis taking place across two cell types and, therefore, photoassimilate export can occur from either one. SWEET13 homologues in C4 grasses have been proposed to facilitate apoplastic phloem loading. Here, we provide evidence for this hypothesis using the C4 grass Setaria viridis. Expression analyses on the leaf gradient of C4 species Setaria and Sorghum bicolor show abundant transcript levels for SWEET13 homologues. Carbohydrate profiling along the Setaria leaf shows total sugar content to be significantly higher in the mature leaf tip compared with the younger tissue at the base. We present the first known immunolocalization results for SvSWEET13a and SvSWEET13b using novel isoform-specific antisera. These results show localization to the bundle sheath and phloem parenchyma cells of both minor and major veins. We further present the first transport kinetics study of C4 monocot SWEETs by using a Xenopus laevis oocyte heterologous expression system. We demonstrate that SvSWEET13a and SvSWEET13b are high-capacity transporters of glucose and sucrose, with a higher apparent Vmax for sucrose, compared with glucose, typical of clade III SWEETs. Collectively, these results provide evidence for an apoplastic phloem loading pathway in Setaria and possibly other C4 species.
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- Lily Chen
- Research School of Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
- School of Science, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Campus, New South Wales, 2753, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
- CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
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- Centre for Plant Science, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, College of Engineering Science and Environment, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, 2308, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
- School of Science, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Campus, New South Wales, 2753, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia
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Voitsekhovskaja OV, Melnikova AN, Demchenko KN, Ivanova AN, Dmitrieva VA, Maksimova AI, Lohaus G, Tomos AD, Tyutereva EV, Koroleva OA. Leaf Epidermis: The Ambiguous Symplastic Domain. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:695415. [PMID: 34394148 PMCID: PMC8358407 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.695415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The ability to develop secondary (post-cytokinetic) plasmodesmata (PD) is an important evolutionary advantage that helps in creating symplastic domains within the plant body. Developmental regulation of secondary PD formation is not completely understood. In flowering plants, secondary PD occur exclusively between cells from different lineages, e.g., at the L1/L2 interface within shoot apices, or between leaf epidermis (L1-derivative), and mesophyll (L2-derivative). However, the highest numbers of secondary PD occur in the minor veins of leaf between bundle sheath cells and phloem companion cells in a group of plant species designated "symplastic" phloem loaders, as opposed to "apoplastic" loaders. This poses a question of whether secondary PD formation is upregulated in general in symplastic loaders. Distribution of PD in leaves and in shoot apices of two symplastic phloem loaders, Alonsoa meridionalis and Asarina barclaiana, was compared with that in two apoplastic loaders, Solanum tuberosum (potato) and Hordeum vulgare (barley), using immunolabeling of the PD-specific proteins and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), respectively. Single-cell sampling was performed to correlate sugar allocation between leaf epidermis and mesophyll to PD abundance. Although the distribution of PD in the leaf lamina (except within the vascular tissues) and in the meristem layers was similar in all species examined, far fewer PD were found at the epidermis/epidermis and mesophyll/epidermis boundaries in apoplastic loaders compared to symplastic loaders. In the latter, the leaf epidermis accumulated sugar, suggesting sugar import from the mesophyll via PD. Thus, leaf epidermis and mesophyll might represent a single symplastic domain in Alonsoa meridionalis and Asarina barclaiana.
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- Olga V. Voitsekhovskaja
- Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Plant Biochemistry, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
- Molecular Plant Research/Plant Biochemistry, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
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- Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
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Torralbo F, Vicente R, Morcuende R, González-Murua C, Aranjuelo I. C and N metabolism in barley leaves and peduncles modulates responsiveness to changing CO2. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2019; 70:599-611. [PMID: 30476207 PMCID: PMC6322569 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Balancing of leaf carbohydrates is a key process for maximising crop performance in elevated CO2 environments. With the aim of testing the role of the carbon sink-source relationship under different CO2 conditions, we performed two experiments with two barley genotypes (Harrington and RCSL-89) exposed to changing CO2. In Experiment 1, the genotypes were exposed to 400 and 700 ppm CO2. Elevated CO2 induced photosynthetic acclimation in Harrington that was linked with the depletion of Rubisco protein. In contrast, a higher peduncle carbohydrate-storage capacity in RSCL-89 was associated with a better balance of leaf carbohydrates that could help to maximize the photosynthetic capacity under elevated CO2. In Experiment 2, plants that were grown at 400 ppm or 700 ppm CO2 for 5 weeks were switched to 700 ppm or 400 ppm CO2, respectively. Raising CO2 to 700 ppm increased photosynthetic rates with a reduction in leaf carbohydrate content and an improvement in N assimilation. The increase in nitrate content was associated with up-regulation of genes of protein transcripts of photosynthesis and N assimilation that favoured plant performance under elevated CO2. Finally, decreasing the CO2 from 700 ppm to 400 ppm revealed that both stomatal closure and inhibited expression of light-harvesting proteins negatively affected photosynthetic performance and plant growth.
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- Fernando Torralbo
- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB)-CSIC, Avenida de Pamplona, Mutilva Baja, Spain
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- Abiotic Stress Department, Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca, IRNASA-CSIC, Salamanca, Spain
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg, Potsdam, Germany
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- Abiotic Stress Department, Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca, IRNASA-CSIC, Salamanca, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain
- Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB)-CSIC, Avenida de Pamplona, Mutilva Baja, Spain
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Reyna-Llorens I, Hibberd JM. Recruitment of pre-existing networks during the evolution of C 4 photosynthesis. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 372:20160386. [PMID: 28808102 PMCID: PMC5566883 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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During C4 photosynthesis, CO2 is concentrated around the enzyme RuBisCO. The net effect is to reduce photorespiration while increasing water and nitrogen use efficiencies. Species that use C4 photosynthesis have evolved independently from their C3 ancestors on more than 60 occasions. Along with mimicry and the camera-like eye, the C4 pathway therefore represents a remarkable example of the repeated evolution of a highly complex trait. In this review, we provide evidence that the polyphyletic evolution of C4 photosynthesis is built upon pre-existing metabolic and genetic networks. For example, cells around veins of C3 species show similarities to those of the C4 bundle sheath in terms of C4 acid decarboxylase activity and also the photosynthetic electron transport chain. Enzymes of C4 photosynthesis function together in gluconeogenesis during early seedling growth of C3Arabidopsis thaliana Furthermore, multiple C4 genes appear to be under control of both light and chloroplast signals in the ancestral C3 state. We, therefore, hypothesize that relatively minor rewiring of pre-existing genetic and metabolic networks has facilitated the recurrent evolution of this trait. Understanding how these changes are likely to have occurred could inform attempts to install C4 traits into C3 crops.This article is part of the themed issue 'Enhancing photosynthesis in crop plants: targets for improvement'.
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- Ivan Reyna-Llorens
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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Fricke W. Water transport and energy. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2017; 40:977-994. [PMID: 27756100 DOI: 10.1111/pce.12848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2016] [Revised: 10/08/2016] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Water transport in plants occurs along various paths and is driven by gradients in its free energy. It is generally considered that the mode of transport, being either diffusion or bulk flow, is a passive process, although energy may be required to sustain the forces driving water flow. This review aims at putting water flow at the various organisational levels (cell, organ, plant) in the context of the energy that is required to maintain these flows. In addition, the question is addressed (1) whether water can be transported against a difference in its chemical free energy, 'water potential' (Ψ), through, directly or indirectly, active processes; and (2) whether the energy released when water is flowing down a gradient in its energy, for example during day-time transpiration and cell expansive growth, is significant compared to the energy budget of plant and cell. The overall aim of review is not so much to provide a definite 'Yes' and 'No' to these questions, but rather to stimulate discussion and raise awareness that water transport in plants has its real, associated, energy costs and potential energy gains.
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- Wieland Fricke
- School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland
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Miyake H. Starch Accumulation in the Bundle Sheaths of C3 Plants: A Possible Pre-Condition for C4 Photosynthesis. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 57:890-6. [PMID: 26936788 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcw046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 02/20/2016] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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C4 plants have evolved >60 times from their C3 ancestors. C4 photosynthesis requires a set of closely co-ordinated anatomical and biochemical characteristics. However, it is now recognized that the evolution of C4 plants requires fewer changes than had ever been considered, because of the genetic, biochemical and anatomical pre-conditions of C3 ancestors that were recruited into C4 photosynthesis. Therefore, the pre-conditions in C3 plants are now being actively investigated to clarify the evolutionary trajectory from C3 to C4 plants and to engineer C4 traits efficiently into C3 crops. In the present mini review, the anatomical characteristics of C3 and C4 plants are briefly reviewed and the importance of the bundle sheath for the evolution of C4 photosynthesis is described. For example, while the bundle sheath of C3 rice plants accumulates large amounts of starch in the developing leaf blade and at the lamina joint of the mature leaf, the starch sheath function is also observed during leaf development in starch accumulator grasses regardless of photosynthetic type. The starch sheath function of C3 plants is therefore also implicated as a possible pre-condition for the evolution of C4 photosynthesis. The phylogenetic relationships between the types of storage carbohydrates and of photosynthesis need to be clarified in the future.
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- Hiroshi Miyake
- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan
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Martínez-Noël GMA, Dosio GAA, Puebla AF, Insani EM, Tognetti JA. Sunflower: a potential fructan-bearing crop? FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:798. [PMID: 26528295 PMCID: PMC4600902 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Grain filling in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) mainly depends on actual photosynthesis, being the contribution of stored reserves in stems (sucrose, hexoses, and starch) rather low. Drought periods during grain filling often reduce yield. Increasing the capacity of stem to store reserves could help to increase grain filling and yield stability in dry years. Fructans improve water uptake in soils at low water potential, and allow the storage of large amount of assimilates per unit tissue volume that can be readily remobilized to grains. Sunflower is a close relative to Jerusalem artichoke (H. tuberosus L.), which accumulates large amounts of fructan (inulin) in tubers and true stems. The reason why sunflower does not accumulate fructans is obscure. Through a bioinformatics analysis of a sunflower transcriptome database, we found sequences that are homologous to dicotyledon and monocotyledon fructan synthesis genes. A HPLC analysis of stem sugar composition revealed the presence of low amounts of 1-kestose, while a drastic enhancement of endogenous sucrose levels by capitulum removal did not promote 1-kestose accumulation. This suggests that the regulation of fructan synthesis in this species may differ from the currently best known model, mainly derived from research on Poaceae, where sucrose acts as both a signaling molecule and substrate, in the induction of fructan synthesis. Thus, sunflower might potentially constitute a fructan-bearing species, which could result in an improvement of its performance as a grain crop. However, a large effort is needed to elucidate how this up to now unsuspected potential could be effectively expressed.
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- Giselle M. A. Martínez-Noël
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Biotecnología-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasMar del Plata, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar del PlataBalcarce, Argentina
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, CICVyA-CNIA-INTAHurlingham, Argentina
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- Instituto de Biotecnología, CICVyA-CNIA-INTAHurlingham, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Fisiología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar del PlataBalcarce, Argentina
- Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos AiresLa Plata, Argentina
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Cimini S, Locato V, Vergauwen R, Paradiso A, Cecchini C, Vandenpoel L, Verspreet J, Courtin CM, D'Egidio MG, Van den Ende W, De Gara L. Fructan biosynthesis and degradation as part of plant metabolism controlling sugar fluxes during durum wheat kernel maturation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2015; 6:89. [PMID: 25750648 PMCID: PMC4335405 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2014] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Wheat kernels contain fructans, fructose based oligosaccharides with prebiotic properties, in levels between 2 and 35 weight % depending on the developmental stage of the kernel. To improve knowledge on the metabolic pathways leading to fructan storage and degradation, carbohydrate fluxes occurring during durum wheat kernel development were analyzed. Kernels were collected at various developmental stages and quali-quantitative analysis of carbohydrates (mono- and di-saccharides, fructans, starch) was performed, alongside analysis of the activities and gene expression of the enzymes involved in their biosynthesis and hydrolysis. High resolution HPAEC-PAD of fructan contained in durum wheat kernels revealed that fructan content is higher at the beginning of kernel development, when fructans with higher DP, such as bifurcose and 1,1-nystose, were mainly found. The changes in fructan pool observed during kernel maturation might be part of the signaling pathways influencing carbohydrate metabolism and storage in wheat kernels during development. During the first developmental stages fructan accumulation may contribute to make kernels more effective Suc sinks and to participate in osmotic regulation while the observed decrease in their content may mark the transition to later developmental stages, transition that is also orchestrated by changes in redox balance.
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- Sara Cimini
- Laboratory of Plant Biochemistry and Food Sciences, Campus Bio-Medico UniversityRome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Plant Biochemistry and Food Sciences, Campus Bio-Medico UniversityRome, Italy
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- Laboratory for Molecular Plant Biology and Leuven Food Science and Nutrition Research Centre (LFoRCe), KU LeuvenLeuven, Belgium
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- Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Unità di ricerca per la Valorizzazione Qualitativa dei CerealiRome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Plant Biochemistry and Food Sciences, Campus Bio-Medico UniversityRome, Italy
- Laboratory for Molecular Plant Biology and Leuven Food Science and Nutrition Research Centre (LFoRCe), KU LeuvenLeuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry, KU LeuvenLeuven, Belgium
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- Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, Unità di ricerca per la Valorizzazione Qualitativa dei CerealiRome, Italy
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- Laboratory for Molecular Plant Biology and Leuven Food Science and Nutrition Research Centre (LFoRCe), KU LeuvenLeuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Plant Biochemistry and Food Sciences, Campus Bio-Medico UniversityRome, Italy
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Heise R, Arrivault S, Szecowka M, Tohge T, Nunes-Nesi A, Stitt M, Nikoloski Z, Fernie AR. Flux profiling of photosynthetic carbon metabolism in intact plants. Nat Protoc 2014; 9:1803-24. [DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Arrivault S, Guenther M, Florian A, Encke B, Feil R, Vosloh D, Lunn JE, Sulpice R, Fernie AR, Stitt M, Schulze WX. Dissecting the subcellular compartmentation of proteins and metabolites in arabidopsis leaves using non-aqueous fractionation. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014; 13:2246-59. [PMID: 24866124 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m114.038190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Non-aqueous fractionation is a technique for the enrichment of different subcellular compartments derived from lyophilized material. It was developed to study the subcellular distribution of metabolites. Here we analyzed the distribution of about 1,000 proteins and 70 metabolites, including 22 phosphorylated intermediates in wild-type Arabidopsis rosette leaves, using non-aqueous gradients divided into 12 fractions. Good separation of plastidial, cytosolic, and vacuolar metabolites and proteins was achieved, but cytosolic, mitochondrial, and peroxisomal proteins clustered together. There was considerable heterogeneity in the fractional distribution of transcription factors, ribosomal proteins, and subunits of the vacuolar-ATPase, indicating diverse compartmental location. Within the plastid, sub-organellar separation of thylakoids and stromal proteins was observed. Metabolites from the Calvin-Benson cycle, photorespiration, starch and sucrose synthesis, glycolysis, and the tricarboxylic acid cycle grouped with their associated proteins of the respective compartment. Non-aqueous fractionation thus proved to be a powerful method for the study of the organellar, and in some cases sub-organellar, distribution of proteins and their association with metabolites. It remains the technique of choice for the assignment of subcellular location to metabolites in intact plant tissues, and thus the technique of choice for doing combined metabolite-protein analysis on a single tissue sample.
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- Stéphanie Arrivault
- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; §Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; ¶National University of Ireland, University Rd., Galway, Ireland
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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- From the ‡Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany; ‖Department of Plant Systems Biology, Universität Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
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Braun DM, Wang L, Ruan YL. Understanding and manipulating sucrose phloem loading, unloading, metabolism, and signalling to enhance crop yield and food security. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2014; 65:1713-35. [PMID: 24347463 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Sucrose is produced in, and translocated from, photosynthetically active leaves (sources) to support non-photosynthetic tissues (sinks), such as developing seeds, fruits, and tubers. Different plants can utilize distinct mechanisms to transport sucrose into the phloem sieve tubes in source leaves. While phloem loading mechanisms have been extensively studied in dicot plants, there is less information about phloem loading in monocots. Maize and rice are major dietary staples, which have previously been proposed to use different cellular routes to transport sucrose from photosynthetic cells into the translocation stream. The anatomical, physiological, and genetic evidence supporting these conflicting hypotheses is examined. Upon entering sink cells, sucrose often is degraded into hexoses for a wide range of metabolic and storage processes, including biosynthesis of starch, protein, and cellulose, which are all major constituents for food, fibre, and fuel. Sucrose, glucose, fructose, and their derivate, trehalose-6-phosphate, also serve as signalling molecules to regulate gene expression either directly or through cross-talk with other signalling pathways. As such, sugar transport and metabolism play pivotal roles in plant development and realization of crop yield that needs to be increased substantially to meet the projected population demand in the foreseeable future. This review will discuss the current understanding of the control of carbon partitioning from the cellular to whole-plant levels, focusing on (i) the pathways employed for phloem loading in source leaves, particularly in grasses, and the routes used in sink organs for phloem unloading; (ii) the transporter proteins responsible for sugar efflux and influx across plasma membranes; and (iii) the key enzymes regulating sucrose metabolism, signalling, and utilization. Examples of how sugar transport and metabolism can be manipulated to improve crop productivity and stress tolerance are discussed.
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- David M Braun
- Division of Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, and Missouri Maize Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Koroleva OA, Cramer R. Single-cell proteomic analysis of glucosinolate-rich S-cells in Arabidopsis thaliana. Methods 2011; 54:413-23. [PMID: 21708264 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2011.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2010] [Revised: 06/03/2011] [Accepted: 06/07/2011] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Single-cell analysis is essential for understanding the processes of cell differentiation and metabolic specialisation in rare cell types. The amount of single proteins in single cells can be as low as one copy per cell and is for most proteins in the attomole range or below; usually considered as insufficient for proteomic analysis. The development of modern mass spectrometers possessing increased sensitivity and mass accuracy in combination with nano-LC-MS/MS now enables the analysis of single-cell contents. In Arabidopsis thaliana, we have successfully identified nine unique proteins in a single-cell sample and 56 proteins from a pool of 15 single-cell samples from glucosinolate-rich S-cells by nanoLC-MS/MS proteomic analysis, thus establishing the proof-of-concept for true single-cell proteomic analysis. Dehydrin (ERD14_ARATH), two myrosinases (BGL37_ARATH and BGL38_ARATH), annexin (ANXD1_ARATH), vegetative storage proteins (VSP1_ARATH and VSP2_ARATH) and four proteins belonging to the S-adenosyl-l-methionine cycle (METE_ARATH, SAHH1_ARATH, METK4_ARATH and METK1/3_ARATH) with associated adenosine kinase (ADK1_ARATH), were amongst the proteins identified in these single-S-cell samples. Comparison of the functional groups of proteins identified in S-cells with epidermal/cortical cells and whole tissue provided a unique insight into the metabolism of S-cells. We conclude that S-cells are metabolically active and contain the machinery for de novo biosynthesis of methionine, a precursor for the most abundant glucosinolate glucoraphanine in these cells. Moreover, since abundant TGG2 and TGG1 peptides were consistently found in single-S-cell samples, previously shown to have high amounts of glucosinolates, we suggest that both myrosinases and glucosinolates can be localised in the same cells, but in separate subcellular compartments. The complex membrane structure of S-cells was reflected by the presence of a number of proteins involved in membrane maintenance and cellular organisation.
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- Olga A Koroleva
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AS, UK.
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Koroleva OA, Gibson TM, Cramer R, Stain C. Glucosinolate-accumulating S-cells in Arabidopsis leaves and flower stalks undergo programmed cell death at early stages of differentiation. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2010; 64:456-69. [PMID: 20815819 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2010.04339.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The plant secondary metabolites glucosinolates (GSL) have important functions in plant resistance to herbivores and pathogens. We identified all major GSL that accumulated in S-cells in Arabidopsis by MALDI-TOF MS, and estimated by LC-MS that the total GSL concentration in these cells is >130 mM. The precise locations of the S-cells outside phloem bundles in rosette and cauline leaves and in flower stalks were visualised using sulphur mapping by cryo-SEM/energy-dispersive X-ray analysis. S-cells contain up to 40% of the total sulphur in flower stalk tissues. S-cells in emerging flower stalks and developing leaf tissues show typical signs of programmed cell death (PCD) or apoptosis, such as chromatin condensation in the nucleus and blebbing of the membranes. TUNEL staining for DNA double-strand breaks confirmed the occurrence of PCD in S-cells in post-meristematic tissues in the flower stalk as well as in the leaf. Our results indicate that S-cells in post-meristematic tissues show an extreme degree of metabolic specialisation in addition to PCD. Accumulation and maintenance of a high concentration of GSL in these cells are accompanied by degradation of a number of cell organelles. The substantial changes in cell composition during S-cell differentiation indicate the importance of this particular GSL-based phloem defence system. The specific anatomy of the S-cells and the ability to accumulate specialised secondary metabolites is similar to that of the non-articulated laticifer cells in latex plants, suggesting a common evolutionary origin.
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- Olga A Koroleva
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AS, UK.
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Yıldız S. The Metabolism of Fructooligosaccharides and Fructooligosaccharide-Related Compounds in Plants. FOOD REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/87559129.2010.518295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- S. Yıldız
- a Süleyman Demirel University, Chemical Engineering Department , Çünür , Isparta , Turkey
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Martinez-Noël GA, Tognetti JA, Salerno GL, Pontis HG. Sugar signaling of fructan metabolism: New insights on protein phosphatases in sucrose-fed wheat leaves. PLANT SIGNALING & BEHAVIOR 2010; 230:1071-9. [PMID: 20220311 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-009-1002-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2009] [Accepted: 08/05/2009] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Protein phosphatase type 2A (PP2A) activity is required for the sucrose induction of fructan metabolism in wheat leaves, as shown in experiments with the addition of the specific inhibitor okadaic acid (OA) together with sucrose. However, a decrease in total PP2A activity has been found along sucrose treatment. Here we analyze the effect of sucrose feeding to wheat leaves on PP2A activity profiles after Deae-Sephacel and Superose separation, in comparison with those of control leaves. The results show no evidence of changes in PP2A activity profiles as a consequence of sucrose feeding. In all, our data suggest that constitutive levels of PP2A activity may be sufficient for the sucrose-mediated induction of fructan metabolism and that general decrease of PP2A activity produced by long-term treatment with sucrose may be due to a negative feedback regulation.
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Scofield GN, Ruuska SA, Aoki N, Lewis DC, Tabe LM, Jenkins CLD. Starch storage in the stems of wheat plants: localization and temporal changes. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2009; 103:859-68. [PMID: 19190011 PMCID: PMC2707892 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2008] [Revised: 10/29/2008] [Accepted: 12/11/2008] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Carbohydrate temporarily accumulates in wheat stems during the early reproductive growth phase, predominantly as water soluble carbohydrate (WSC), and is subsequently remobilized during grain filling. Starch has also been reported as a minor storage carbohydrate component in wheat stems, but the details are lacking. METHODS The accumulation and localization of starch in wheat stem and leaf sheath tissue over a developmental period from 6 d before anthesis to 35 d after anthesis was investigated. KEY RESULTS The region of the peduncle enclosed by the flag-leaf sheath, and the penultimate internode were the main tissues identified as containing starch, in which the starch grains localized to the storage parenchyma cells. In contrast, the exposed peduncle lacked starch grains. Starch grains were also found in the flag-leaf and second-leaf sheath. Plants grown in low-nitrogen conditions exhibited increased storage of both starch and WSC compared with plants grown in high-nitrogen supply. CONCLUSIONS The major accumulation and decrease of starch occurred temporally independently to that for WSC, suggesting a different functional role for starch in wheat stems. Starch reutilization concomitant with peduncle growth, and the early development of the reproductive structures, suggested a role in provision of energy and/or carbon scaffolds for these growth processes.
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Gholipour Y, Nonami H, Erra-Balsells R. Application of pressure probe and UV-MALDI-TOF MS for direct analysis of plant underivatized carbohydrates in subpicoliter single-cell cytoplasm extract. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2008; 19:1841-1848. [PMID: 18835726 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2008.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2008] [Revised: 07/07/2008] [Accepted: 08/11/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Single-cell cytoplasm sap (1-10 pL) was extracted by using a pressure probe glass microcapillary tip from tulip leaf and bulb and analyzed by UV-MALDI-TOF MS for free underivatized carbohydrate content. Three matrices including 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB), 2,4,6-trihydroxyacetophenone (THAP), and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in positive ion mode were selected for analysis because of acceptable carbohydrate-related signal reproducibility. Disaccharide and oligosaccharide (up to 15 Hex when THAP was used, 11 Hex with DHB, and 7 Hex with CNTs) were detected in tulip bulb cell cytoplasm sample. When DHB was used as matrix, neutral carbohydrates were more abundantly detected as sodiated cations; the sugar-related signals, however, appeared as dominant potassiated cations when THAP and CNTs were used. Small amount of monosaccharide was also detected in bulb cell cytoplasm with CNTs as matrix. UV-MALDI-TOF MS of leaf cell extract resulted in high-resolution detection of hexose and disaccharide with DHB, THAP, and CNTs.
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- Yousef Gholipour
- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
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Lieckfeldt E, Simon-Rosin U, Kose F, Zoeller D, Schliep M, Fisahn J. Gene expression profiling of single epidermal, basal and trichome cells of Arabidopsis thaliana. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2008; 165:1530-44. [PMID: 18006186 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2007.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2007] [Revised: 06/06/2007] [Accepted: 06/10/2007] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Samples of single epidermal, basal and trichome cells were collected by glass microcapillaries from 7-week-old Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. Transcript amplification of these single-cell samples was performed by RT PCR. For gene expression profiling, we hybridized the amplified transcriptome of each individual cell type to nylon membranes spotted with 16,000 Arabidopsis expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Initial analysis of the array filter data enabled us to functionally categorize transcripts that were present in each individual cell type. In order to confirm the filter array data, we used RT PCR. Results of this RT PCR approach confirmed the presence of 12 selected candidate genes in agreement with array filter hybridization data. Further, transcripts involved in detoxification and sulfur metabolism could be identified in epidermal cell extracts. Together, the results of our study provide the localization of approximately 1000 expressed genes to either pavement, basal or trichome cells. To cluster transcripts with similar expression levels, we developed a novel mathematical algorithm. Based on the mean and standard deviation, ratios of expression levels of a transcript were defined for pairs of the three cell types. This numerical analysis enabled subdivision into 67 categories of genes differentially expressed in epidermal, basal and trichome cells. Transcripts in each category displayed similar ratios of expression levels in the three cell types. Examples of these clusters are presented and discussed in Appendix A.
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- Elke Lieckfeldt
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
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Kukushkin AK, Kuznetsova SA, Dolgopolova AA. Physicochemical examinations of the mechanisms and regulation of photosynthesis in higher plants: II. Luminescence induction in examination of photosynthesis regulation. RUSS J GEN CHEM+ 2007. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070363207110345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Fructans from oat and rye: composition and effects on membrane stability during drying. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2007; 1768:1611-9. [PMID: 17462587 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2007] [Revised: 03/12/2007] [Accepted: 03/15/2007] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Fructans have been implicated in the abiotic stress tolerance of many plant species, including grasses and cereals. To elucidate the possibility that cereal fructans may stabilize cellular membranes during dehydration, we used liposomes as a model system and isolated fructans from oat (Avena sativa) and rye (Secale cereale). Fructans were fractionated by preparative size exclusion chromatography into five defined size classes (degree of polymerization (DP) 3 to 7) and two size classes containing high DP fructans (DP>7 short and long). They were characterized by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). The effects of the fructans on liposome stability during drying and rehydration were assessed as the ability of the sugars to prevent leakage of a soluble marker from liposomes and liposome fusion. Both species contain highly complex mixtures of fructans, with a DP up to 17. The two DP>7 fractions from both species were unable to protect liposomes, while the fractions containing smaller fructans were protective to different degrees. Protection showed an optimum at DP 4 and the DP 3, 4, and 5 fractions from oat were more protective than all other fractions from both species. In addition, we found evidence for synergistic effects in membrane stabilization in mixtures of low DP with DP>7 fructans. The data indicate that cereal fructans have the ability to stabilize membranes under stress conditions and that there are size and species dependent differences between the fructans. In addition, mixtures of fructans, as they occur in living cells may have protective properties that differ significantly from those of the purified fractions.
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Verscht J, Tomos D, Komor E. Sugar concentrations along and across the Ricinus communis L. hypocotyl measured by single cell sampling analysis. PLANTA 2006; 224:1303-14. [PMID: 16738860 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0309-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2006] [Accepted: 04/25/2006] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Single cell sap sampling and analysis were used to measure the longitudinal and radial distribution of sucrose, glucose and fructose in the apical cell division zone and in the basal, elongated zone of the Ricinus hypocotyl. Sucrose and hexose increased in concentration from the apex to the base of the seedling axis. In the cell division zone low hexose and sucrose concentrations prevailed in cortex and pith, with a slightly higher hexose concentration in pith cells. The sucrose concentrations in sieve tubes and in phloem were much higher than in the cortex and pith cells. In the basal zone of the hypocotyl high levels of sucrose in phloem, cortex and pith were found, therefore radial, diffusional sucrose flow away from the phloem was considered unlikely. It is proposed that radial flow of growth-water to the hypocotyl periphery together with the down-regulation of a sucrose transporter at the phloem leads to a preferential sucrose flow to the expanding cortex. The pith cells, which do not experience flow of growth-water, are probably insufficiently supplied with sucrose from the phloem resulting eventually in cell death as the plant grows. Shortage of sucrose supply, experimentally achieved by removal of the endosperm, led to sucrose hydrolysis in the pith. The sucrose levels in the other tissues decreased less. It appears that the hydrolysis to hexose was initiated to maintain the osmotic value in the pith cell sap. It is speculated that high hexose levels in the cells are indicative of insufficient sucrose supply via the phloem and that the pith cells are confronted with that situation during early seedling development.
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- Jutta Verscht
- LS Pflanzenphysiologie, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Voitsekhovskaja OV, Koroleva OA, Batashev DR, Knop C, Tomos AD, Gamalei YV, Heldt HW, Lohaus G. Phloem loading in two Scrophulariaceae species. What can drive symplastic flow via plasmodesmata? PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2006. [PMID: 16377750 DOI: 10.?1104/?pp.?105.?068312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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To determine the driving forces for symplastic sugar flux between mesophyll and phloem, gradients of sugar concentrations and osmotic pressure were studied in leaf tissues of two Scrophulariaceae species, Alonsoa meridionalis and Asarina barclaiana. A. meridionalis has a typical symplastic configuration of minor-vein phloem, i.e. intermediary companion cells with highly developed plasmodesmal connections to bundle-sheath cells. In A. barclaiana, two types of companion cells, modified intermediary cells and transfer cells, were found in minor-vein phloem, giving this species the potential to have a complex phloem-loading mode. We identified all phloem-transported carbohydrates in both species and analyzed the levels of carbohydrates in chloroplasts, vacuoles, and cytoplasm of mesophyll cells by nonaqueous fractionation. Osmotic pressure was measured in single epidermal and mesophyll cells and in whole leaves and compared with calculated values for phloem sap. In A. meridionalis, a 2-fold concentration gradient for sucrose between mesophyll and phloem was found. In A. barclaiana, the major transported carbohydrates, sucrose and antirrhinoside, were present in the phloem in 22- and 6-fold higher concentrations, respectively, than in the cytoplasm of mesophyll cells. The data show that diffusion of sugars along their concentration gradients is unlikely to be the major mechanism for symplastic phloem loading if this were to occur in these species. We conclude that in both A. meridionalis and A. barclaiana, apoplastic phloem loading is an indispensable mechanism and that symplastic entrance of solutes into the phloem may occur by mass flow. The conditions favoring symplastic mass flow into the phloem are discussed.
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- Olga V Voitsekhovskaja
- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, 37077 Goettingen, Germany.
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Voitsekhovskaja OV, Koroleva OA, Batashev DR, Knop C, Tomos AD, Gamalei YV, Heldt HW, Lohaus G. Phloem loading in two Scrophulariaceae species. What can drive symplastic flow via plasmodesmata? PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2006; 140:383-95. [PMID: 16377750 PMCID: PMC1326059 DOI: 10.1104/pp.105.068312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2005] [Revised: 10/31/2005] [Accepted: 11/03/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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To determine the driving forces for symplastic sugar flux between mesophyll and phloem, gradients of sugar concentrations and osmotic pressure were studied in leaf tissues of two Scrophulariaceae species, Alonsoa meridionalis and Asarina barclaiana. A. meridionalis has a typical symplastic configuration of minor-vein phloem, i.e. intermediary companion cells with highly developed plasmodesmal connections to bundle-sheath cells. In A. barclaiana, two types of companion cells, modified intermediary cells and transfer cells, were found in minor-vein phloem, giving this species the potential to have a complex phloem-loading mode. We identified all phloem-transported carbohydrates in both species and analyzed the levels of carbohydrates in chloroplasts, vacuoles, and cytoplasm of mesophyll cells by nonaqueous fractionation. Osmotic pressure was measured in single epidermal and mesophyll cells and in whole leaves and compared with calculated values for phloem sap. In A. meridionalis, a 2-fold concentration gradient for sucrose between mesophyll and phloem was found. In A. barclaiana, the major transported carbohydrates, sucrose and antirrhinoside, were present in the phloem in 22- and 6-fold higher concentrations, respectively, than in the cytoplasm of mesophyll cells. The data show that diffusion of sugars along their concentration gradients is unlikely to be the major mechanism for symplastic phloem loading if this were to occur in these species. We conclude that in both A. meridionalis and A. barclaiana, apoplastic phloem loading is an indispensable mechanism and that symplastic entrance of solutes into the phloem may occur by mass flow. The conditions favoring symplastic mass flow into the phloem are discussed.
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- Olga V Voitsekhovskaja
- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, 37077 Goettingen, Germany.
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Livingston DP, Premakumar R, Tallury SP. Carbohydrate partitioning between upper and lower regions of the crown in oat and rye during cold acclimation and freezing. Cryobiology 2005; 52:200-8. [PMID: 16359655 DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2005.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2005] [Revised: 11/01/2005] [Accepted: 11/07/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Carbohydrates have long been recognized as an important aspect of freezing tolerance in plants but the association between these two factors is often ambiguous. To help clarify the relationship, the allocation of carbohydrates between specific tissues within the over wintering organ (crown) of winter cereals was measured. A winter-hardy and non-winter-hardy oat (Avena sativa L.), and a rye (Secale cereale L.) cultivar were grown and frozen under controlled conditions. Crown tissue was fractionated into an upper portion, called the apical region, and a lower portion, called the lower crown. These tissues were ground in liquid N and extracted with water. Extracts were analyzed by HPLC for the simple sugars, sucrose, glucose, fructose, and for fructan of various size classes. After 3 weeks of cold acclimation at 3 degrees C, carbohydrates accounted for approximately 40% of the dry weight of oats and 60% of the dry weight of rye. The apical region, which is the tissue within the crown that acclimates to the greatest extent, was generally 10% higher in total carbohydrates than the lower crown. During a mild freeze, various carbohydrates were allocated differently between specific tissues in the three genotypes. When frozen, fructan generally decreased to a greater extent in the lower crown than in the apical region but sugars increased more in the apical region than in the lower crown. Results suggest that to understand how carbohydrates relate to freezing tolerance, regions of the crown that endure freezing stress differently should be compared.
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- D P Livingston
- USDA and North Carolina State University, Unit 3, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
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Parrott D, Yang L, Shama L, Fischer AM. Senescence is accelerated, and several proteases are induced by carbon "feast" conditions in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) leaves. PLANTA 2005; 222:989-1000. [PMID: 16034594 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-005-0042-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2005] [Accepted: 05/30/2005] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Leaf senescence is characterized by nitrogen remobilization to developing seeds of annual plants, or surviving organs of perennial species. It has been demonstrated that high carbohydrate levels (carbon "feast") are associated with the onset of the senescence process. Therefore, the development of model systems allowing the manipulation of leaf carbohydrates constitutes a logical first step in the investigation of processes important during early phases of senescence, such as plastidial protein degradation. In this study, sugar accumulation was induced either by the incubation of excised, mature barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) leaves under relatively strong light, or by the interruption of sieve tubes at the base of the leaf lamina by "steam-girdling". Accelerated chlorophyll degradation and net proteolysis confirmed successful senescence induction in both model systems, but suggested that girdled leaves are more useful than excised leaves to study proteolysis. Activities or transcript levels of several proteolytic enzymes, including plastidial (aminopeptidases, Clp protease), cytosolic (proteasome) and vacuolar (thiol proteases, an aspartic protease and a serine carboxypeptidase) proteases were clearly induced under these conditions; some of these genes also reacted to other stimuli such as leaf excision. The most interesting finding was the specific induction of a carboxypeptidase gene (cp-mIII) in girdled leaves accumulating high carbohydrate levels. As a previous study from our laboratory, using a genetic approach, has indicated that one or several carboxypeptidases are involved in leaf N remobilization, the detailed characterization of cp-mIII (and, possibly, closely related genes) may considerably improve our understanding of whole-plant N recycling.
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- D Parrott
- Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717-3150, USA
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Livingston D, Premakumar R, Tallury SP. Carbohydrate concentrations in crown fractions from winter oat during hardening at sub-zero temperatures. ANNALS OF BOTANY 2005; 96:331-5. [PMID: 15894549 PMCID: PMC4246867 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mci167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Contradictory results in correlation studies of plant carbohydrates with freezing tolerance may be because whole crown tissue is analysed for carbohydrates while differences exist in the survival of specific tissue within the crown. The aim of this study was to see if carbohydrate changes in tissue within oat crowns during second phase hardening (sub-zero hardening) are tissue specific. METHODS The lower portion of oat (Avena sativa) crowns was exposed to mild grinding in a blender and the remaining crown meristem complex, consisting of tough root-like vessels, was ground in a device developed specifically for grinding cereal crown tissue. Carbohydrates were extracted by water and measured by HPLC. Carbohydrate concentrations were compared in the two regions of the crown before and after hardening at sub-zero temperatures. KEY RESULTS Fructan of all size classes except DP>6 decreased during sub-zero hardening in both stems (base of leaf sheath) and crown meristem complex. Total simple sugar increase, including sucrose, was significantly higher in the crown meristem complex than in the stem. CONCLUSIONS Results support the hypothesis that carbohydrate change in mildly frozen plants is tissue specific within crowns and underscore the need to evaluate specific tissue within the crown when correlating the biochemistry of plants with freezing tolerance.
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- David Livingston
- US Department of Agriculture and North Carolina State University, 840 Method Road, Unit 3, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
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Morcuende R, Kostadinova S, Pérez P, Del Molino IMM, Martínez-Carrasco R. Nitrate is a negative signal for fructan synthesis, and the fructosyltransferase-inducing trehalose inhibits nitrogen and carbon assimilation in excised barley leaves. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2004; 161:749-759. [PMID: 33873721 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2004.00990.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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• Fructan biosynthesis in barley (Hordeum vulgare) has been shown to be upregulated by sugar signalling and downregulated by nitrogen. The relationship between these two regulations is investigated. • Excised third-leaves of barley were fed nitrate or glutamine under two light intensities. Other leaf blades were supplied in the dark for 24 h with nitrate and trehalose in the presence of validamycin A, a trehalase inhibitor. • In the light, nitrate, but not glutamine, decreased fructan contents and sucrose:fructan 6-fructosyltransferase protein without affecting the levels of sucrose and other carbohydrates. In darkened leaves, trehalose increased and nitrate decreased the fructan contents and total sucrose:fructosyltransferase activity without altering the concentration of sucrose. The effect on fructan contents of trehalose disappeared, whereas that of nitrate remained in subsequent incubations in water under light. Trehalose decreased and nitrate increased the light- and CO2 -saturated rate of photosynthesis without significantly affecting the initial Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase) activity. Trehalose feeding decreased the activation of nitrate reductase and amino acid levels, and blocked the positive effect of nitrate on the maximal activity of this enzyme. • The results indicate that nitrate, and not a downstream metabolite, is a negative signal for fructan synthesis, independent from the positive sugar signalling and overriding it. Trehalose signalling inhibits nitrogen and carbon assimilation, at the same time, inducing fructosyltransferase activity.
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- R Morcuende
- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
- Present address: Department of Agrochemistry and Soil Science, Agricultural University, 12 Mendeleev Street, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
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- Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca, CSIC, Apartado 257, 37071 Salamanca, Spain
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Nagaraj VJ, Altenbach D, Galati V, Lüscher M, Meyer AD, Boller T, Wiemken A. Distinct regulation of sucrose: sucrose-1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST) and sucrose: fructan-6-fructosyltransferase (6-SFT), the key enzymes of fructan synthesis in barley leaves: 1-SST as the pacemaker. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2004; 161:735-748. [PMID: 33873712 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.00995.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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• Previously we have cloned sucrose: fructan-6-fructosyltransferase (6-SFT) from barley (Hordeum vulgare) and proposed that synthesis of fructans in grasses depends on the concerted action of two main enzymes: sucrose: sucrose-1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST), as in other fructan producing plants, and 6-SFT, found only in grasses. • Here we report the cloning of barley 1-SST, verifying the activity of the encoded protein by expression in Pichia pastoris. As expected, the barley 1-SST is homologous to invertases and fructosyltransferases, and in particular to barley 6-SFT. • The gene expression pattern of 1-SST and 6-SFT, along with the corresponding enzyme activities and fructan levels, were investigated in excised barley leaves subjected to a light-dark regime known to sequentially induce fructan accumulation and mobilization. The turnover of transcripts and enzyme activities of 1-SST and 6-SFT was compared, using appropriate inhibitors. • We found the 1-SST transcripts and enzymatic activity respond quickly, being subject to a rapid turnover. By contrast, the 6-SFT transcripts and enzymatic activity were found to be much more stable. The much higher responsiveness of 1-SST to regulatory processes, as compared with 6-SFT, clearly indicates that 1-SST plays the role of the pacemaker enzyme of fructan synthesis in barley leaves.
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- Vinay J Nagaraj
- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
- Present address: Marcel Lüscher, Hauptstrasse 74, CH-4450 Sissach, Switzerland
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- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
- Present address: Alain Denis Meyer, Thiersteinerrain 118, CH-4059 Basel, Switzerland
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- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Botanisches Institut der Universität Basel, Hebelstrasse 1, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Long SP, Ainsworth EA, Rogers A, Ort DR. Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide: plants FACE the future. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2004; 55:591-628. [PMID: 15377233 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.55.031903.141610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 619] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Atmospheric CO(2) concentration ([CO(2)]) is now higher than it was at any time in the past 26 million years and is expected to nearly double during this century. Terrestrial plants with the C(3) photosynthetic pathway respond in the short term to increased [CO(2)] via increased net photosynthesis and decreased transpiration. In the longer term this increase is often offset by downregulation of photosynthetic capacity. But much of what is currently known about plant responses to elevated [CO(2)] comes from enclosure studies, where the responses of plants may be modified by size constraints and the limited life-cycle stages that are examined. Free-Air CO(2) Enrichment (FACE) was developed as a means to grow plants in the field at controlled elevation of CO(2) under fully open-air field conditions. The findings of FACE experiments are quantitatively summarized via meta-analytic statistics and compared to findings from chamber studies. Although trends agree with parallel summaries of enclosure studies, important quantitative differences emerge that have important implications both for predicting the future terrestrial biosphere and understanding how crops may need to be adapted to the changed and changing atmosphere.
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- Stephen P Long
- Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois 61801-4798, USA.
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Johnson X, Lidgett A, Chalmers J, Guthridge K, Jones E, Cummings N, Spangenberg G. Isolation and characterisation of an invertase cDNA from perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne). JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 160:903-911. [PMID: 12964866 DOI: 10.1078/0176-1617-01130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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An invertase (LpFT2) cDNA from perennial ryegrass was isolated and sequenced. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an ORF of 2016 bp encoding a protein of 671 amino acids. LpFT2 is 76% identical to sugarcane soluble acid invertase, and contains invertase and fructosyltransferase functional domains. LpFT2 is present as a single copy gene and maps to the distal region of LG6 in perennial ryegrass. The expression pattern analysis of LpFT2 revealed transcript accumulation in seedlings and in mature leaf sheaths. The LpFT2 recombinant protein expressed in yeast showed invertase and fructan exohydrolase-like activities with complete breakdown of sucrose, 1-kestose (DP3), 1,1-kestotetraose (DP4) and 1,1,1-kestopentaose (DP5) into glucose and fructose.
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- Xenie Johnson
- Plant Biotechnology Centre, Agriculture Victoria, Department of Primary Industries, CRC for Molecular Plant Breeding, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
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Ritsema T, Smeekens SCM. Engineering fructan metabolism in plants. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2003; 160:811-820. [PMID: 12940548 DOI: 10.1078/0176-1617-01029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Fructans, or polyfructosylsucroses, are storage carbohydrates present in many higher plants. They are also considered healthy food ingredients. Engineering crops into high level production of specific fructan molecules is one of the mayor strategic research goals. Understanding the properties of fructosyltransferases is important, in order to direct the synthesis of fructans. In plants at least two fructosyltransferases are needed to synthesise fructans. One enzyme synthesises the fructan trisaccharide 1-kestose, the next enzyme uses 1-kestose for elongation and/or modification, producing longer fructans. The specificity of fructosyltransferases determines the type of glycosidic bond formed and the donor and acceptor substrates used. This enables the synthesis of many structurally diverse fructans. The production of these molecules in crops such as sugar beet and potato makes the commercial use of fructans feasible.
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- Tita Ritsema
- Molecular Plant Physiology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Gebbing T. The enclosed and exposed part of the peduncle of wheat (Triticum aestivum) - spatial separation of fructan storage. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2003; 159:245-252. [PMID: 33873665 DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00799.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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• Although fructan accumulation is reported in photosynthetically active organs, the long-term storage of fructan mainly occurs in more heterotrophic tissues. Significant amounts of fructan are stored in the internodes during grain filling of wheat (Triticum aestivum). The uppermost internode (peduncle) of wheat consists of a lower unexposed (i.e. enclosed by the flag leaf sheath and thus heterotrophic part, Pl ) and an upper exposed autotrophic part (Pu ). • Diurnal and long-term changes of fructan and sucrose (the precursor of fructan synthesis) contents were studied in Pl and Pu of potted wheat plants. • At mid grain-filling the sucrose concentration in Pu increased almost threefold during the light period and decreased in the following night. Diurnal changes in sucrose concentration were much less expressed in Pl . Fructan concentration was significantly higher in Pl than in Pu and did not change during the light period. • In another experiment, field grown wheat plants were sampled at regular intervals between 5 d before anthesis and grain maturity. At the time of maximum fructan content, 88% of the fructans in the total peduncle were stored in the heterotrophic Pl . Within Pl , fructan accumulation started in the older segments. The reason for the sharp separation of fructan storage between Pl and Pu remains unclear.
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- Thomas Gebbing
- Grassland Science, Technische Universität München, 85350 Freising, Germany; Present address: Institute for Plant Production, University of Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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Leonardos ED, Savitch LV, Huner NPA, Oquist G, Grodzinski B. Daily photosynthetic and C-export patterns in winter wheat leaves during cold stress and acclimation. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2003; 117:521-531. [PMID: 12675742 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.2003.00057.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Diurnal patterns of whole-plant and leaf gas exchange and 14C-export of winter wheat acclimated at 20 and 5 degrees C were determined. The 5 degrees C-acclimated plants had lower relative growth rates, smaller biomass and leaf area, but larger specific leaf weight than 20 degrees C plants. Photosynthetic rates in 20 degrees C and 5 degrees C-acclimated leaves were similar; however, daytime export from 5 degrees C-acclimated leaves was 45% lower. Photosynthesis and export remained steady in 20 degrees C and 5 degrees C-acclimated leaves during the daytime. By comparison, photosynthesis in 5 degrees C-stressed leaves (20 degrees C-acclimated plants exposed to 5 degrees C 12 h before and during measurements) declined from 70 to 50% of the 20 degrees C-acclimated leaves during the daytime, while export remained constant at 35% of the 20 degrees C-acclimated and 60% of the 5 degrees C-acclimated leaves. At high light and CO2, photosynthesis and export increased in both 20 degrees C and 5 degrees C-acclimated leaves, but rates in 5 degrees C-stressed leaves remained unchanged. At all conditions daytime export was greater than nighttime export. Taken together, during cold acclimation photosynthesis was upregulated, whereas export was only partially increased. We suggest that this reflects a requirement of cold-acclimated plants to both sustain an increased leaf metabolic demand while concomitantly supporting translocation of photoassimilates to overwintering sinks.
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- Evangelos D. Leonardos
- Department of Plant Agriculture, Division of Horticultural Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Centre, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada Department of Plant Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå University, Umeå, S-901 87, Sweden
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LALONDE S, TEGEDER M, THRONE-HOLST M, FROMMER WB, PATRICK JW. Phloem loading and unloading of sugars and amino acids. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2003; 26:37-56. [PMID: 0 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3040.2003.00847.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Pollock C, Farrar J, Tomos D, Gallagher J, Lu C, Koroleva O. Balancing supply and demand: the spatial regulation of carbon metabolism in grass and cereal leaves. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2003; 54:489-94. [PMID: 12508059 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Leaf primary metabolism responds to changes in both supply of inputs and demand for products. Metabolic control in leaves changes both spatially and temporally. Using leaves of C(3) temperate Gramineae, the spatial control of carbohydrate metabolism has been studied using a range of approaches. Single-cell sampling and subsequent analysis of metabolites, proteins and transcripts has indicated significant differences between epidermal, mesophyll and parenchymatous bundle sheath cells. These differences correlate with differentiated function as heterotrophic, autotrophic and transport pathway components of the leaf. The review emphasizes the key role of sucrose and discusses its catabolism to hexoses and its anabolism to fructans as mechanisms for the preservation of sucrose gradients within the leaf.
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- Chris Pollock
- Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth SY23 3EB, Wales, UK.
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Lu C, Koroleva OA, Farrar JF, Gallagher J, Pollock CJ, Tomos AD. Rubisco small subunit, chlorophyll a/b-binding protein and sucrose:fructan-6-fructosyl transferase gene expression and sugar status in single barley leaf cells in situ. Cell type specificity and induction by light. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 130:1335-48. [PMID: 12427999 PMCID: PMC166653 DOI: 10.1104/pp.008979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2002] [Accepted: 06/12/2002] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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We describe a highly efficient two-step single-cell reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction technique for analyzing gene expression at the single-cell level. Good reproducibility and a linear dose response indicated that the technique has high specificity and sensitivity for detection and quantification of rare RNA. Actin could be used as an internal standard. The expression of message for Rubisco small subunit (RbcS), chlorophyll a/b-binding protein (Cab), sucrose (Suc):fructan-6-fructosyl transferase (6-SFT), and Actin were measured in individual photosynthetic cells of the barley (Hordeum vulgare) leaf. Only Actin was found in the non-photosynthetic epidermal cells. Cab, RbcS, and 6-SFT genes were expressed at a low level in mesophyll and parenchymatous bundle sheath (BS) cells when sampled from plants held in dark for 40 h. Expression increased considerably after illumination. The amount of 6-SFT, Cab, and RbcS transcript increased more in mesophyll cells than in the parenchymatous BS cells. The difference may be caused by different chloroplast structure and posttranscriptional control in mesophyll and BS cells. When similar single-cell samples were assayed for Suc, glucose, and fructan, there was high correlation between 6-SFT gene expression and Suc and glucose concentrations. This is consistent with Suc concentration being the trigger for transcription. Together with earlier demonstrations that the mesophyll cells have a higher sugar threshold for fructan polymerization, our data may indicate separate control of transcription and enzyme activity. Values for the sugar concentrations of the individual cell types are reported.
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- Chungui Lu
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Bangor, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, Wales, United Kingdom
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Koroleva OA, Davies A, Deeken R, Thorpe MR, Tomos AD, Hedrich R. Identification of a new glucosinolate-rich cell type in Arabidopsis flower stalk. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2000; 124:599-608. [PMID: 11027710 PMCID: PMC59166 DOI: 10.1104/pp.124.2.599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2000] [Accepted: 06/22/2000] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Distribution of K, Ca, Cl, S, and P in freeze-dried sections of Arabidopsis flower stalk was analyzed by energy dispersive x-ray imaging. Concentrations of these elements in different cell types were quantified by microanalysis of single-cell samples and phloem exudates. Results showed a differential pattern of distribution for all five elements. K concentration was found to be highest in the parenchymatous tissue around vascular bundles. Ca and Cl were present mainly in the central part of the flower stalk. P was largely located in the bundles and in the parenchyma surrounding them. S signal was extraordinary high in groups of cells (S-cells) situated between the phloem of every vascular bundle and the endodermis. Enzymatic hydrolysis by thioglucosidase of cell sap collected from S-cells using a glass microcapillary resulted in the release of glucose, indicating that these cells contain glucosinolates at high (> 100 mM) concentration, which is consistent with the concentration of S (> 200 mM) estimated by x-ray analysis of cell sap samples. Since their position outside of the phloem is ideally suited for protecting the long-distance transport system from feeding insects, the possible roles of these cells as components of a plant defense system are discussed.
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- O A Koroleva
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, United Kingdom.
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Farrar J, Pollock C, Gallagher J. Sucrose and the integration of metabolism in vascular plants. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2000; 154:1-11. [PMID: 10725553 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9452(99)00260-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We consider the hypothesis that sucrose is a signal as well as a substrate. We suggest that the significance of sugar sensing in plants is the integration of whole-plant carbon flux so that the capacity of sources to produce sucrose matches the capacity of sinks to consume it. We pay particular attention to difficulties with this hypothesis and the areas where further or better evidence is needed. We conclude that there is strong correlative evidence for a link between sucrose metabolism and the level of expression of key genes, but that a number of different mechanisms may be involved.
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- J Farrar
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
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▪ Abstract This review discusses how the pressure probe has evolved from an instrument for measuring cell turgor and other water relations parameters into a device for sampling the contents of individual higher plant cells in situ in the living plant. Together with a suite of microanalytical techniques it has permitted the mapping of water and solute relations at the resolution of single cells and has the potential to link quantitatively the traditionally separate areas of water relations and metabolism. The development of the probe is outlined and its modification to measure root pressure and xylem tension described. The deployment of the pressure probe to determine and map turgor, hydraulic conductivity, reflection coefficient, cell rheological properties, solute concentrations and enzyme activities at the resolution of single cells is discussed. The controversy surrounding the interpretation of results obtained with the xylem-pressure probe is included. Possible further developments of the probe and applications of single cell sampling are suggested.
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- A. Deri Tomos
- Ysgol Gwyddorau Biolegol, Prifysgol Cymru Bangor, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, United Kingdom; e-mail: , Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom; e-mail:
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