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Yacoubi I, Gadaleta A, Mathlouthi N, Hamdi K, Giancaspro A. Abscisic Acid-Stress-Ripening Genes Involved in Plant Response to High Salinity and Water Deficit in Durum and Common Wheat. Front Plant Sci 2022; 13:789701. [PMID: 35283900 PMCID: PMC8905601 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.789701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/17/2022] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
In the dry and hot Mediterranean regions wheat is greatly susceptible to several abiotic stresses such as extreme temperatures, drought, and salinity, causing plant growth to decrease together with severe yield and quality losses. Thus, the identification of gene sequences involved in plant adaptation to such stresses is crucial for the optimization of molecular tools aimed at genetic selection and development of stress-tolerant varieties. Abscisic acid, stress, ripening-induced (ASR) genes act in the protection mechanism against high salinity and water deficit in several plant species. In a previous study, we isolated for the first time the TtASR1 gene from the 4A chromosome of durum wheat in a salt-tolerant Tunisian landrace and assessed its involvement in plant response to some developmental and environmental signals in several organs. In this work, we focused attention on ASR genes located on the homoeologous chromosome group 4 and used for the first time a Real-Time approach to "in planta" to evaluate the role of such genes in modulating wheat adaptation to salinity and drought. Gene expression modulation was evaluated under the influence of different variables - kind of stress, ploidy level, susceptibility, plant tissue, time post-stress application, gene chromosome location. ASR response to abiotic stresses was found only slightly affected by ploidy level or chromosomal location, as durum and common wheat exhibited a similar gene expression profile in response to salt increase and water deficiency. On the contrary, gene activity was more influenced by other variables such as plant tissue (expression levels were higher in roots than in leaves), kind of stress [NaCl was more affecting than polyethylene glycol (PEG)], and genotype (transcripts accumulated differentially in susceptible or tolerant genotypes). Based on such experimental evidence, we confirmed Abscisic acid, stress, ripening-induced genes involvement in plant response to high salinity and drought and suggested the quantification of gene expression variation after long salt exposure (72 h) as a reliable parameter to discriminate between salt-tolerant and salt-susceptible genotypes in both Triticum aestivum and Triticum durum.
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- Ines Yacoubi
- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et Amélioration des Plantes, Centre de Biotechnologie de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (DiSAAT), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et Amélioration des Plantes, Centre de Biotechnologie de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et Amélioration des Plantes, Centre de Biotechnologie de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia
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- Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (DiSAAT), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Ye Y, Lin R, Su H, Chen H, Luo M, Yang L, Zhang M. The functional identification of glycine-rich TtASR from Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze involving in plant abiotic stress tolerance. Plant Physiol Biochem 2019; 143:212-223. [PMID: 31518852 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 09/06/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In this study, we reported on an ASR gene (TtASR) related to salt/drought tolerance from the edible halophyte Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze (Aizoaceae). A phylogenetic analysis revealed that TtASR was evolutionarily close to other two halophytic glycine-rich ASR members, SbASR-1 (from Salicornia brachiate) and SlASR (from Suaeda liaotungensis), with a typical abscisic acid (ABA)/water-deficit stress (WDS) domain at C-terminal. Quantitative RT-PCR analyses showed that TtASR was expressed in all tested different organs of the T. tetragonoides plant and that expression levels were apparently induced after salt, osmotic stress, and ABA treatments in T. tetragonoides seedlings. An induction of TtASR improved the growth performance of yeast and bacteria more than the control under high salinity, osmotic stress, and oxidative stress. TtASR was not a nuclear-specific protein in plant, and the transcriptional activation assay also demonstrated that TtASR could not activate reporter gene's expression in yeast. TtASR overexpressed Arabidopsis plants exhibited higher tolerance for salt/drought and oxidative stresses and lower ROS accumulation than wild type (WT) plants, accompanied by increased CAT, SOD activities, higher proline content, and lower MDA content in vivo. The results indicated that the TtASR was involved in plant responses to salt and drought, probably by mediating water homeostasis or by acting as ROS scavengers, and that it decreased the membrane damage and improved cellular osmotic adjustment that respond to abiotic stresses in microorganisms and plants.
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- Yuyan Ye
- School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany & Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China; Center of Economic Botany, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, PR China; College of Resources and Environment, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, PR China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany & Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China; Center of Economic Botany, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, PR China; College of Life Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, PR China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany & Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China; Center of Economic Botany, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, PR China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany & Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China; Center of Economic Botany, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, PR China.
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- School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, PR China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany & Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China; Center of Economic Botany, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, PR China.
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