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Min K, Chen K, Arora R. Short versus prolonged freezing differentially impacts freeze - thaw injury in spinach leaves: mechanistic insights through metabolite profiling. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2020; 168:777-789. [PMID: 31600406 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 09/19/2019] [Accepted: 10/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Plant tissues subjected to short or prolonged freezing to a fixed sub-freezing temperature are expected to undergo similar freeze-desiccation but the former causes substantially less injury than the latter. To gain metabolic insight into this differential response, metabolome changes in spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) leaves were determined following short-term (0.5 and 3.0 h) vs. prolonged freezing (5.5 and 10.5 h) at -4.5°C resulting in reversible or irreversible injury, respectively. LD50 , the freezing duration causing 50% injury, was estimated to be ∼3.1 h and defined as the threshold beyond which tissues were irreversibly injured. From 39 identified metabolites, 19 were selected and clustered into 3 groups: (1) signaling-related (salicylic acid, aliphatic and aromatic amino acids), (2) injury-related (GABA, lactic acid, maltose, fatty acids, policosanols, TCA intermediates) and (3) recovery-related (ascorbic acid, α-tocopherol). Initial accumulation of salicylic acid during short-term freezing followed by a decline may be involved in triggering tolerance mechanisms in moderately injured tissues, while its resurgence during prolonged freezing may signal programmed cell death. GABA accumulated with increasing freezing duration, possibly to serve as a 'pH-stat' against cytoplasmic acidification resulting from lactic acid accumulation. Mitochondria seem to be more sensitive to prolonged freezing than chloroplasts since TCA intermediates decreased after LD50 while salicylic acid and maltose, produced in chloroplasts, accumulate even at 10.5-h freezing. Fatty acids and policosanols accumulation with increasing freezing duration indicates greater injury to membrane lipids and epicuticular waxes. Ascorbic acid and α-tocopherol accumulated after short-term freezing, supposedly facilitating recovery while their levels decreased in irreversibly injured tissues.
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- Kyungwon Min
- Department of Horticulture, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011
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- Department of Genetic, Development, and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011
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- Department of Horticulture, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011
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- J. S. McKenzie
- Agriculture Canada Research Station; Beaverlodge Alberta
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- Agriculture Canada Research Station; Ste. Foy Quebec
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Salaj J, Hudák J. Effect of Low Temperatures on the Structure of Plant Cells. BOOKS IN SOILS, PLANTS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT 1999. [DOI: 10.1201/9780824746728.ch19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Rütten D, Santarius KA. Age-related differences in frost sensitivity of the photosynthetic apparatus of two Plagiomnium species. PLANTA 1992; 187:224-229. [PMID: 24178048 DOI: 10.1007/bf00201943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/23/1991] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Shoots of two species of moss, Plagiomnium undulatum (Hedw.) Kop. and Plagiomnium affine (Funck) Kop., were subjected to freezing at various temperatures. After thawing, the activities of different photosynthetic reactions were determined in relation to the ages of the leaves. Analysis of the fast kinetics of chlorophyll-a fluorescence of individual leaves showed that young and old tissues were considerably less frost tolerant than mature ones. In principle, the pattern of freeze inactivation of photosynthetic reactions resembles that observed in higher plants. The decreases in the amplitude of Fv (variable fluorescence) and the ratio of Fv to Fm (maximum fluorescence) with increasing freezing stress reflect a progressive inactivation of photosystem II (PSII)-mediated electron transport, i.e. inhibition of photoreaction to photochemistry and-or electron donation to the photochemical reaction, and thus a decline in the potential photochemical efficiency of PSII. The insignificant change in the F0 (constant fluorescence) level during progressive decline of Fv indicates that the excitation-energy transfer between antenna pigments and from those to reaction centres of PSII was little impaired by lethal freezing stress. Sugar analyses of various stem sections showed that ontogenetic variation in the frost tolerance of leaves cannot be attributed to differences in the cellular levels of sucrose, glucose and fructose.
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- D Rütten
- Institut für Ökologische Pflanzenphysiologie und Geobotanik, Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, 1, Düsseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany
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Steffen KL, Arora R, Palta JP. Relative sensitivity of photosynthesis and respiration to freeze-thaw stress in herbaceous species : importance of realistic freeze-thaw protocols. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1989; 89:1372-9. [PMID: 16666712 PMCID: PMC1056024 DOI: 10.1104/pp.89.4.1372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The relative effect of a freeze-thaw cycle on photosynthesis, respiration, and ion leakage of potato leaf tissue was examined in two potato species, Solanum acaule Bitt. and Solanum commersonii Dun. Photosynthesis was found to be much more sensitive to freezing stress than was respiration, and demonstrated more than a 60% inhibition before any impairment of respiratory function was observed. Photosynthesis showed a slight to moderate inhibition when only 5 to 10% of the total electrolytes had leaked from the tissue (reversible injury). This was in contrast to respiration which showed no impairment until temperatures at which about 50% ion leakage (irreversible injury) had occurred. The influence of freeze-thaw protocol was further examined in S. acaule and S. commersonii, in order to explore discrepancies in the literature as to the relative sensitivities of photosynthesis and respiration. As bath cooling rates increased from 1 degrees C/hour to about 3 or 6 degrees C/hour, there was a dramatic increase in the level of damage to all measured cellular functions. The initiation of ice formation in deeply supercooled tissue caused even greater damage. As the cooling rates used in stress treatments increased, the differential sensitivity between photosynthesis and respiration nearly disappeared. Examination of agriculturally relevant, climatological data from an 11 year period confirmed that air cooling rates in the freezing range do not exceed 2 degrees C/hour. It was demonstrated, in the studies presented here, that simply increasing the actual cooling rate from 1.0 to 2.9 degrees C/hour, in frozen tissue from paired leaflet halves, meant the difference between cell survival and cell death.
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- K L Steffen
- Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
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Gao JY, Andrews CJ, Pomeroy MK. Interactions among Flooding, Freezing, and Ice Encasement in Winter Wheat. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1983; 72:303-7. [PMID: 16662997 PMCID: PMC1066228 DOI: 10.1104/pp.72.2.303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Exposure of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to various combinations of flooding and freezing stresses induces much greater damage than the individual stresses. Cold-hardened plants flooded for 1 week or exposed to -6 degrees C for 1 week show 100% survival, while survival of plants exposed to both stresses simultaneously is reduced by 20 to 30%, and cold hardiness decreases by several degrees. The level of nonstructural carbohydrates increases in crown tissue during cold acclimation, but decreases when the plants are exposed to flooding or to -6 degrees C for 1 week. The respiratory capacity of crown tissue segments declines when the plants are stressed. Uptake of (86)Rb by the roots of intact seedlings declines after exposure to either freezing or flooding, whereas passive efflux of amino acids is observed after freezing but not following flooding. This study has shown that detectable stress-induced metabolic changes occur in winter wheat before the applied stress is severe enough to reduce survival.
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- J Y Gao
- Institute of Crop Germplasm Resources, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Peking, China
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Pomeroy MK, Pihakaski SJ, Andrews CJ. Membrane properties of isolated winter wheat cells in relation to icing stress. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1983; 72:535-9. [PMID: 16663038 PMCID: PMC1066269 DOI: 10.1104/pp.72.2.535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Isolated cell preparations of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) were utilized to examine the effect of ice encasement at -1 degrees C and exposure to ethanol on metabolic and biochemical properties of cells. Following icing and ethanol treatments, passive efflux of amino acids increased gradually with duration of exposure to the stress, and closely paralleled the decline in viability of cells. In contrast, uptake of (86)Rb declined much more rapidly than viability following exposure to icing or ethanol. Electron spin resonance spectroscopy studies revealed no significant change in molecular ordering within the cell membranes following icing or exposure to ethanol, whereas a small but significant increase in order was detected in the noniced controls. O(2) consumption by isolated cells declined only gradually due to icing and ethanol treatments, and remained relatively high even when cell viability was severely reduced. These results indicate that the plasma membrane is a primary site of injury during ice encasement and that damage to the ion transport system is the earliest manifestation of this injury.
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- M K Pomeroy
- Chemistry and Biology Research Institute, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada
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Thebud R, Santarius KA. Effects of freezing on spinach leaf mitochondria and thylakoids in situ and in vitro. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1981; 68:1156-60. [PMID: 16662067 PMCID: PMC426061 DOI: 10.1104/pp.68.5.1156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The sensitivity of spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) leaf mitochondria and chloroplast membranes to subzero temperature stress was compared after freezing of the membrane systems in situ and in vitro. Respiratory and photosynthetic activities were measured polarographically.When leaves were frozen under controlled conditions for 2 hours to various minimum temperatures and mitochondria and chloroplasts isolated after thawing, the membrane systems showed a nearly simultaneous inactivation of respiratory and photosynthetic activities between -5 to -7 C. At that temperature range in both membrane systems phosphorylation became only slightly more affected than electron transport, i.e. after freezing in situ conspicuous uncoupling of phosphorylation from electron transport was not observed.In contrast, mitochondria and thylakoids isolated from the same preparation of intact leaves under comparable conditions using NaCl as osmoticum exhibited differences in sensitivity towards freezing for 2 to 4 hours at -25 C in vitro. In the absence of cryoprotectants, photophosphorylation of isolated thylakoids became completely uncoupled from electron transport which was increased several-fold compared with the unfrozen controls. Inactivation of respiratory functions of isolated mitochondria followed the same pattern as observed after freezing in situ. In the presence of sucrose for protection of thylakoids significantly higher concentrations of the cryoprotectant were necessary than for preservation of mitochondria. Thus, under the conditions used in this study chloroplast membranes proved to be more sensitive to freezing in vitro than mitochondria.
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- R Thebud
- Botanisches Institut, Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, D-4000 Düsseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany
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Thebud R, Santarius KA. Effects of freezing on isolated plant mitochondria. PLANTA 1981; 152:242-247. [PMID: 24302422 DOI: 10.1007/bf00385151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/1981] [Accepted: 03/12/1981] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Mitochondria isolated from spinach leaves (Spinacia oleracea L.) and potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum L.) were partly injured when subjected to freezing for 2 to 4 h at-25°C in salt solutions in the absence of cryoprotectants. Damage was manifested by the inactivation of respiratory properties and increase in the permeability of the mitochondrial membranes. Decrease in respiratory control indicated that the control mechanism of the electron transport chain was influenced by freezing. Oxidative phosphorylation was only slightly more affected than electron transport. The inactivation of the membrane systems was caused by an increase in the concentration of membrane-toxic solutes. This was confirmed by treatment of the organelles at 0°C in solutions of high salt concentrations. When sugar was present in the course of freezing, mitochondria were partly or completely protected. On a molar basis, sucrose was more effective in membrane protection than glucose. Under certain conditions amino acids, e.g., proline and hydroxyproline, also stabilized isolated mitochondria during freezing.
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- R Thebud
- Botanisches Institut, Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, D-4000, Düsseldorf 1, Federal Republic of Germany
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Singh J, Miller RW. Spin-label Studies of Membranes in Rye Protoplasts during Extracellular Freezing. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1980; 66:349-52. [PMID: 16661435 PMCID: PMC440596 DOI: 10.1104/pp.66.2.349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Protoplasts isolated from epicotyls of nonhardened winter rye seedlings were spin-labeled with the N-oxyl-4-4-dimethyloxazolidine derivatives of 5-ketostearic (5NS) and 16-ketostearic (16NS) acids. Spectra of the membrane-bound labels showed motional broadening with a rotational correlation time of 1.5 x 10(-8) second for 5NS and 1.5 x 10(-10) second for 16NS at 0 C. A procedure was developed to follow membrane changes in these protoplasts during extracellular freezing. With freezing, molecular motion of 5NS, but not of 16NS, spin probes was restricted. The increase in molecular order near the hydrated end of the membrane did not result from lowered temperatures inasmuch as no such change was observed in supercooled samples. These changes are probably due to dehydration of protoplast membranes during extracellular freezing. Similar results were obtained with multilayered egg yolk lecithin and are consistent with previous observations of changes in lecithin multibilayers during dehydration. Such alterations in membrane order might lead to irreversible membrane damage during extracellular freezing of plant cells.
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- J Singh
- Chemistry and Biology Research Institute, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OC6 Canada
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Frozen Fruits and Vegetables: Their Chemistry, Physics, and Cryobiology. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1979. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2628(08)60238-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/08/2023]
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Quinn PJ, Williams WP. Plant lipids and their role in membrane function. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1979; 34:109-73. [PMID: 375299 DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(79)90016-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 133] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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de la Roche AI. Increase in linolenic Acid is not a prerequisite for development of freezing tolerance in wheat. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1979; 63:5-8. [PMID: 16660691 PMCID: PMC542755 DOI: 10.1104/pp.63.1.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Seedlings of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Kharkov) were acclimated at 2 C in the dark in the presence of two inhibitors of linolenic acid synthesis, 4-chloro-5(dimethylamino)-2-phenyl-3(2H)pyridazinone-(BASF 13-338) and 4-chloro-5(dimethylamino)-2-(alpha,alpha,alpha-trifluoro-m-tolyl)- 3(2H)pyridazinone (Sandoz 6706). Although the increase in the proportion of linolenic acid generally observed at low temperature was completely inhibited, the development of freezing tolerance was unaffected. These results demonstrated that an enrichment in linolenic acid is not a prerequisite for low temperature acclimation.
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- A I de la Roche
- Ottawa Research Station, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
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