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Marques DN, Mason C, Stolze SC, Harzen A, Nakagami H, Skirycz A, Piotto FA, Azevedo RA. Grafting systems for plant cadmium research: Insights for basic plant physiology and applied mitigation. Sci Total Environ 2023:164610. [PMID: 37270021 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Revised: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic and carcinogenic pollutant that poses a threat to human and animal health by affecting several major organ systems. Urbanization and human activities have led to significant increases in Cd concentration in the environment, including in agroecosystems. To protect against the harmful effects of Cd, efforts are being made to promote safe crop production and to clean up Cd-contaminated agricultural lands and water, reducing Cd exposure through the consumption of contaminated agricultural products. There is a need for management strategies that can improve plant Cd tolerance and reduce Cd accumulation in crop plant tissues, all of which involve understanding the impacts of Cd on plant physiology and metabolism. Grafting, a longstanding plant propagation technique, has been shown to be a useful approach for studying the effects of Cd on plants, including insights into the signaling between organs and organ-specific modulation of plant performance under this form of environmental stress. Grafting can be applied to the large majority of abiotic and biotic stressors. In this review, we aim to highlight the current state of knowledge on the use of grafting to gain insights into Cd-induced effects as well as its potential applicability in safe crop production and phytoremediation. In particular, we emphasize the utility of heterograft systems for assessment of Cd accumulation, biochemical and molecular responses, and tolerance in crop and other plant species under Cd exposure, as well as potential intergenerational effects. We outline our perspectives and future directions for research in this area and the potential practical applicability of plant grafting, with attention to the most obvious gaps in knowledge. We aim at inspiring researchers to explore the potential of grafting for modulating Cd tolerance and accumulation and for understanding the mechanisms of Cd-induced responses in plants for both agricultural safety and phytoremediation purposes.
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- Deyvid Novaes Marques
- Department of Genetics, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), University of São Paulo (USP), Piracicaba, São Paulo (SP), Brazil; Protein Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Max Planck Society, Cologne, Germany; Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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- Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Protein Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Max Planck Society, Cologne, Germany
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- Protein Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Max Planck Society, Cologne, Germany
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- Protein Mass Spectrometry Group, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Max Planck Society, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Crop Science, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), University of São Paulo (USP), Piracicaba, São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), University of São Paulo (USP), Piracicaba, São Paulo (SP), Brazil
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Benjamin JJ, Lucini L, Jothiramshekar S, Parida A. Metabolomic insights into the mechanisms underlying tolerance to salinity in different halophytes. Plant Physiol Biochem 2019; 135:528-545. [PMID: 30442441 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Revised: 10/28/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 05/01/2023]
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Salinity is among the most detrimental and diffuse environmental stresses. Halophytes are plants that developed the ability to complete their life cycle under high salinity. In this work, a mass spectrometric metabolomic approach was applied to comparatively investigate the secondary metabolism processes involved in tolerance to salinity in three halophytes, namely S. brachiata, S. maritima and S. portulacastrum. Regarding osmolytes, the level of proline was increased with NaCl concentration in S. portulacastrum and roots of S. maritima, whereas glycine betaine and polyols were accumulated in S. maritima and S. brachiata. Important differences between species were also found regarding oxidative stress balance. In S. brachiata, the amount of flavonoids and other phenolic compounds increased in presence of NaCl, whereas these metabolites were down regulated in S. portulacastrum, who accumulated carotenoids. Furthermore, distinct impairment of membrane lipids, hormones, alkaloids and terpenes was observed in our species under salinity. Finally, several other nitrogen containing compounds were involved in response to salinity, including amino acids, serotonin and polyamine conjugates. In conclusion, metabolomics highlighted that the specific mechanism each species adopted to achieve acclimation to salinity differed in the three halophytes considered, although response osmotic stress and oxidative imbalance have been confirmed as the key processes underlying NaCl tolerance.
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- Jenifer Joseph Benjamin
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai, 600113, India
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- Department for Sustainable Food Process, Research Centre for Nutrigenomics and Proteomics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai, 600113, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, III Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Taramani, Chennai, 600113, India; Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Bhubaneswar, 751023, Odisha, India
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Mostofa MG, Ghosh A, Li ZG, Siddiqui MN, Fujita M, Tran LSP. Methylglyoxal - a signaling molecule in plant abiotic stress responses. Free Radic Biol Med 2018; 122:96-109. [PMID: 29545071 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2017] [Revised: 02/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Abiotic stresses are the most common harmful factors, adversely affecting all aspects of plants' life. Plants have to elicit appropriate responses against multifaceted effects of abiotic stresses by reprogramming various cellular processes. Signaling molecules play vital roles in sensing environmental stimuli to modulate gene expression, metabolism and physiological processes in plants to cope with the adverse effects. Methylglyoxal (MG), a dicarbonyl compound, is known to accumulate in cells as a byproduct of various metabolic pathways, including glycolysis. Several works in recent years have demonstrated that MG could play signaling roles via Ca2+, reactive oxygen species (ROS), K+ and abscisic acid. Recently, global gene expression profiling has shown that MG could induce signaling cascades, and an overlap between MG-responsive and stress-responsive signaling events might exist in plants. Once overaccumulated in cells, MG can provoke detrimental effects by generating ROS, forming advanced glycation end products and inactivating antioxidant systems. Plants are also equipped with MG-detoxifying glyoxalase system to save cellular organelles from MG toxicity. Since MG has regulatory functions in plant growth and development, and glyoxalase system is an integral component of abiotic stress adaptation, an in-depth understanding on MG metabolism and glyoxalase system will help decipher mechanisms underlying plant responses to abiotic stresses. Here, we provide a comprehensive update on the current knowledge of MG production and detoxification in plants, and highlight the putative functions of glyoxalase system in mediating plant defense against abiotic stresses. We particularly emphasize on the dual roles of MG and its connection with glutathione-related redox regulation, which is crucial for plant defense and adaptive responses under changing environmental conditions.
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- Mohammad Golam Mostofa
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur 1706, Bangladesh.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
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- School of Life Sciences, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, PR China.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur 1706, Bangladesh.
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- Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan.
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- Plant Stress Research Group & Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, 700000, Vietnam; Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
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Tufail A, Li H, Naeem A, Li TX. Leaf cell membrane stability-based mechanisms of zinc nutrition in mitigating salinity stress in rice. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2018; 20:338-345. [PMID: 29148143 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Excess salt affects about 955 million ha of arable land worldwide, and 49% of agricultural land is Zn-deficient. Soil salinity and zinc deficiency can intensify plant abiotic stress. The mechanisms by which Zn can mitigate salinity effects on plant functions are not well understood. We conducted an experiment to determine how Zn and salinity effects on rice plant retention of Zn, K+ and the salt ion Na+ affect chlorophyll formation, leaf cell membrane stability and grain yield. We examined the mechanisms of Zn nutrition in mitigating salinity stress by examining plant physiology and nutrition. We used native Zn-deficient soils (control), four salinity (EC) and Zn treatments - Zn 10 mg·kg-1 (Zn10 ), EC 5 dS·m-1 (EC5 ), Zn10 +EC5 and Zn15 +EC5 , a coarse rice (KS-282) and a fine rice (Basmati-515) in the study. Our results showed that Zn alone (Zn10 ) significantly increased rice tolerance to salinity stress by promoting Zn/K+ retention, inhibiting plant Na+ uptake and enhancing leaf cell membrane stability and chlorophyll formation in both rice cultivars in native alkaline, Zn-deficient soils (P < 0.05). Further, under the salinity treatment (EC5 ), Zn inputs (10-15 mg·kg-1 ) could also significantly promote rice plant Zn/K+ retention and reduce plant Na+ uptake, and thus increased leaf cell membrane stability and grain yield. Coarse rice was more salinity-tolerant than fine rice, having significantly higher Zn/K+ nutrient retention. The mechanistic basis of Zn nutrition in mitigating salinity impacts was through promoting plant Zn/K+ uptake and inhibiting plant Na+ uptake, which could result in increased plant physiological vigour, leaf cell membrane stability and rice productivity.
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- A Tufail
- Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Haikou, Hainan, China
- Institute of Soil & Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Haikou, Hainan, China
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- Institute of Soil & Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Soil Science Division, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks of Quebec, Sustainable Development and Ecological Inheritance Services, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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Gutiérrez-Luna FM, Hernández-Domínguez EE, Valencia-Turcotte LG, Rodríguez-Sotres R. Review: "Pyrophosphate and pyrophosphatases in plants, their involvement in stress responses and their possible relationship to secondary metabolism". Plant Sci 2018; 267:11-19. [PMID: 29362089 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2017.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2017] [Revised: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/26/2017] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Pyrophosphate (PPi) is produced as byproduct of biosynthesis in the cytoplasm, nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplast, or in the tonoplast and Golgi by membrane-bound H+-pumping pyrophosphatases (PPv). Inorganic pyrophosphatases (E.C. 3.6.1.1; GO:0004427) impulse various biosynthetic reactions by recycling PPi and are essential to living cells. Soluble and membrane-bound enzymes of high specificity have evolved in different protein families and multiple pyrophosphatases are encoded in all plant genomes known to date. The soluble proteins are present in cytoplasm, extracellular space, inside chloroplasts, and perhaps inside mitochondria, nucleus or vacuoles. The cytoplasmic isoforms may compete for PPi with the PPv enzymes and how PPv and soluble activities are controlled is currently unknown, yet the cytoplasmic PPi concentration is high and fairly constant. Manipulation of the PPi metabolism impacts primary metabolism and vice versa, indicating a tight link between PPi levels and carbohydrate metabolism. These enzymes appear to play a role in germination, development and stress adaptive responses. In addition, the transgenic overexpression of PPv has been used to enhance plant tolerance to abiotic stress, but the reasons behind this tolerance are not completely understood. Finally, the relationship of PPi to stress suggest a currently unexplored link between PPi and secondary metabolism.
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- Francisca Morayna Gutiérrez-Luna
- FACULTAD DE QUÍMICA, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO, Ave. Universidad 3000, Cd. Universitaria, Del. Coyoacán, P.C. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico.
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- FACULTAD DE QUÍMICA, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO, Ave. Universidad 3000, Cd. Universitaria, Del. Coyoacán, P.C. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico.
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- FACULTAD DE QUÍMICA, UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO, Ave. Universidad 3000, Cd. Universitaria, Del. Coyoacán, P.C. 04510, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Bipfubusa M, Rocher S, Bertrand A, Castonguay Y, Renaut J. Dataset of protein changes induced by cold acclimation in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) populations recurrently selected for improved freezing tolerance. Data Brief 2016; 8:570-4. [PMID: 27408927 PMCID: PMC4927546 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2016] [Revised: 05/30/2016] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The data provide an overview of proteomic changes in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) in response to cold acclimation and recurrent selection for superior freezing tolerance. Proteins were extracted from crowns of two red clover cultivars grown under non-acclimated or cold-acclimated conditions, and plants obtained from the initial genetic background (TF0) and from populations obtained after three (TF3) and four cycles (TF4) of recurrent selection for superior freezing tolerance. Proteins were analyzed using a two-dimensional fluorescence difference gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) coupled to mass spectroscopy (MS and MS/MS). Differentially regulated proteins were subsequently identified using MALDI TOF/TOF analysis. The data are related to a recently published research article describing proteome composition changes associated with freezing tolerance in red clover, “A proteome analysis of freezing tolerance in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.)” (Bertrand et al., 2016 [1]). They are available in the ProteomeXchange Consortium database via the PRIDE partner repository under the dataset identifier PRIDE: PXD003689.
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- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Québec City, Canada
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- Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, Luxembourg
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Bertrand A, Bipfubusa M, Castonguay Y, Rocher S, Szopinska-Morawska A, Papadopoulos Y, Renaut J. A proteome analysis of freezing tolerance in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.). BMC Plant Biol 2016; 16:65. [PMID: 26965047 PMCID: PMC4787020 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-016-0751-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2015] [Accepted: 02/29/2016] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Improvement of freezing tolerance of red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) would increase its persistence under cold climate. In this study, we assessed the freezing tolerance and compared the proteome composition of non-acclimated and cold-acclimated plants of two initial cultivars of red clover: Endure (E-TF0) and Christie (C-TF0) and of populations issued from these cultivars after three (TF3) and four (TF4) cycles of phenotypic recurrent selection for superior freezing tolerance. Through this approach, we wanted to identify proteins that are associated with the improvement of freezing tolerance in red clover. RESULTS Freezing tolerance expressed as the lethal temperature for 50 % of the plants (LT50) increased markedly from approximately -2 to -16 °C following cold acclimation. Recurrent selection allowed a significant 2 to 3 °C increase of the LT50 after four cycles of recurrent selection. Two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) was used to study variations in protein abundance. Principal component analysis based on 2D-DIGE revealed that the largest variability in the protein data set was attributable to the cold acclimation treatment and that the two genetic backgrounds had differential protein composition in the acclimated state only. Vegetative storage proteins (VSP), which are essential nitrogen reserves for plant regrowth, and dehydrins were among the most striking changes in proteome composition of cold acclimated crowns of red clovers. A subset of proteins varied in abundance in response to selection including a dehydrin that increased in abundance in TF3 and TF4 populations as compared to TF0 in the Endure background. CONCLUSION Recurrent selection performed indoor is an effective approach to improve the freezing tolerance of red clover. Significant improvement of freezing tolerance by recurrent selection was associated with differential accumulation of a small number of cold-regulated proteins that may play an important role in the determination of the level of freezing tolerance.
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- />Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Québec City, Canada
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- />Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Belvaux, Luxembourg
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