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Aurelio Gomezcadenas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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common and divergent physiological hormonal and metabolic responses of Arabidopsis thaliana and thellungiella halophila to water and salt stress
Journal of Plant Physiology, 2010Co-Authors: Vicent Arbona, Rosa Argamasilla, Aurelio GomezcadenasAbstract:Abstract To explain the higher tolerance of Thellungiella to abiotic stress in comparison to Arabidopsis, several studies have focused on differences in ion absorption and gene expression. However, little is known about hormone regulation and metabolic responses. In this work, plants of both species were subjected to desiccation and salt stress to compare common and divergent responses. In control conditions, the number of significantly upregulated mass features as well as proline levels was higher in Tellungiella than in Arabidopsis. When subjected to desiccation, both species exhibited similar rates of water loss but proline over accumulation only occurred in Thellungiella; both species accumulated ABA and JA with a similar trend although Arabidopsis showed higher concentrations of both hormones which indicated a stronger impact of desiccation on Arabidopsis. However, Arabidopsis showed a higher number of significantly altered mass features than Thellungiella. Under salt stress, Thellungiella plants accumulated lower amounts of Cl− ions than Arabidopsis but exhibited a similar proline response. Under these conditions, ABA and JA levels increased in Arabidopsis whereas minimal changes in both hormone concentrations were recorded in Thellungiella. Contrastingly, the impact of salt stress on metabolite profiles was higher in Thellungiella than in Arabidopsis. Overall, data indicated that physiological responses in Arabidopsis are induced after stress imposition through hormonal regulation whereas Thellungiella has a basal metabolic configuration, better prepared to endure environmental cues.
Dirk K. Hincha - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Global changes in gene expression, assayed by microarray hybridization and quantitative RT-PCR, during acclimation of three Arabidopsis thaliana accessions to sub-zero temperatures after cold acclimation
Plant Molecular Biology, 2015Co-Authors: Mai Q. Le, Majken Pagter, Dirk K. HinchaAbstract:During cold acclimation plants increase in freezing tolerance in response to low non-freezing temperatures. This is accompanied by many physiological, biochemical and molecular changes that have been extensively investigated. In addition, plants of many species, including Arabidopsis thaliana , become more freezing tolerant during exposure to mild, non-damaging sub-zero temperatures after cold acclimation. There is hardly any information available about the molecular basis of this adaptation. Here, we have used microarrays and a qRT-PCR primer platform covering 1,880 genes encoding transcription factors (TFs) to monitor changes in gene expression in the Arabidopsi s accessions Columbia-0, Rschew and Tenela during the first 3 days of sub-zero acclimation at −3 °C. The results indicate that gene expression during sub-zero acclimation follows a tighly controlled time-course. Especially AP2/EREBP and WRKY TFs may be important regulators of sub-zero acclimation, although the CBF signal transduction pathway seems to be less important during sub-zero than during cold acclimation. Globally, we estimate that approximately 5 % of all Arabidopsis genes are regulated during sub-zero acclimation. Particularly photosynthesis-related genes are down-regulated and genes belonging to the functional classes of cell wall biosynthesis, hormone metabolism and RNA regulation of transcription are up-regulated. Collectively, these data provide the first global analysis of gene expression during sub-zero acclimation and allow the identification of candidate genes for forward and reverse genetic studies into the molecular mechanisms of sub-zero acclimation.
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comparison of freezing tolerance compatible solutes and polyamines in geographically diverse collections of thellungiella sp and Arabidopsis thaliana accessions
BMC Plant Biology, 2012Co-Authors: Alexei Babakov, Bert De Boer, Ellen Zuther, Dirk K. HinchaAbstract:Thellungiella has been proposed as an extremophile alternative to Arabidopsis to investigate environmental stress tolerance. However, Arabidopsis accessions show large natural variation in their freezing tolerance and here the tolerance ranges of collections of accessions in the two species were compared. Leaf freezing tolerance of 16 Thellungiella accessions was assessed with an electrolyte leakage assay before and after 14 days of cold acclimation at 4°C. Soluble sugars (glucose, fructose, sucrose, raffinose) and free polyamines (putrescine, spermidine, spermine) were quantified by HPLC, proline photometrically. The ranges in nonacclimated freezing tolerance completely overlapped between Arabidopsis and Thellungiella. After cold acclimation, some Thellungiella accessions were more freezing tolerant than any Arabidopsis accessions. Acclimated freezing tolerance was correlated with sucrose levels in both species, but raffinose accumulation was lower in Thellungiella and only correlated with freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis. The reverse was true for leaf proline contents. Polyamine levels were generally similar between the species. Only spermine content was higher in nonacclimated Thellungiella plants, but decreased during acclimation and was negatively correlated with freezing tolerance. Thellungiella is not an extremophile with regard to freezing tolerance, but some accessions significantly expand the range present in Arabidopsis. The metabolite data indicate different metabolic adaptation strategies between the species.
Frana Ois Bouteau - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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could farp like peptides participate in regulation of hyperosmotic stress responses in plants
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2014Co-Authors: Frana Ois Bouteau, Emanuela Monetti, Sandra Navet, Yann Bassaglia, Stefano Mancuso, Daniel Tran, Hayat ElmaaroufbouteauAbstract:The ability to respond to hyperosmotic stress is one of numerous conserved cellular processes that most of the organisms have to face during their life. In metazoans, some peptides belonging to the FMRFamide-like peptide (FLP) family were shown to participate to osmoregulation via regulation of ion channels; this is, a well-known response to hyperosmotic stress in plants. Thus, we explored whether FLPs exist and regulate osmotic stress in plants. First, we demonstrated the response of Arabidopsis thaliana cultured cells to a metazoan FLP (FLRF). We found that Arabidopis thaliana express genes that display typical FLP repeated sequences, which end in RF and are surrounded by K or R, which is typical of cleavage sites and suggests bioactivity; however, the terminal G, allowing an amidation process in metazoan, seems to be replaced by W. Using synthetic peptides, we showed that amidation appears unnecessary to bioactivity in A. thaliana, and we provide evidence that these putative FLPs could be involved in physiological processes related to hyperosmotic stress responses in plants, urging further studies on this topic.
Norbert Sauer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the promoter of the Arabidopsis thaliana suc2 sucrose h symporter gene directs expression of beta glucuronidase to the phloem evidence for phloem loading and unloading by suc2
Planta, 1995Co-Authors: Elisabeth Truernit, Norbert SauerAbstract:The Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. SUC2 gene encodes a plasma-membrane sucrose-H+ symporter. The DNA sequence of the SUC2 promoter has been determined. Using a translational fusion of this promoter to the N-terminus of β-glucuronidase (GUS) and the GUS histochemical assay, the tissue specificity of the SUC2 promoter was studied in Arabidopsis plants transformed with this fusion construct. The SUC2 promoter directed expression of GUS activity with high specificity to the phloem of all green tissues of Arabidopsis such as rosette leaves, stems, and sepals. During leaf development the expression of SUC2-GUS activity was first seen in the tips of young rosette leaves. In older leaves and during their concomitant sink/source transition, expression proceeded from the tips to the bases of the leaves, indicating that expression of the SUC2 sucrose-H+ symporter is tightly coupled to the source-strength of Arabidopsis leaves. Expression of SUC2-GUS activity was also seen, however, in sink tissues such as roots and developing Arabidopsis pods, suggesting that the product of the SUC2 gene might not only be important for phloem loading, but also for phloem unloading. A possible regulatory effect of carbohydrates (glucose and sucrose) on the activity of the SUC2 promoter was studied and excluded, both in excised leaves and young seedlings of transgenic Arabidopsis plants. The overall pattern of SUC2-GUS expression correlated well with that of the Arabidopsis thaliana AHA3 plasma-membrane H+ -ATPase which is also expressed in the phloem and most likely represents the primary pump generating the energy for secondary active transporters such as SUC2.
T. Taji - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Comparative Genomics in Salt Tolerance between Arabidopsis and Arabidopsis-Related Halophyte Salt Cress Using Arabidopsis Microarray
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, 2004Co-Authors: T. TajiAbstract:Salt cress (Thellungiella halophila), a halophyte, is a genetic model system with a small plant size, short life cycle, copious seed production, small genome size, and an efficient transformation. Its genes have a high sequence identity (90%–95% at cDNA level) to genes of its close relative, Arabidopsis. These qualities are advantageous not only in genetics but also in genomics, such as gene expression profiling using Arabidopsis cDNA microarrays. Although salt cress plants are salt tolerant and can grow in 500 mm NaCl medium, they do not have salt glands or other morphological alterations either before or after salt adaptation. This suggests that the salt tolerance in salt cress results from mechanisms that are similar to those operating in glycophytes. To elucidate the differences in the regulation of salt tolerance between salt cress and Arabidopsis, we analyzed the gene expression profiles in salt cress by using a full-length Arabidopsis cDNA microarray. In salt cress, only a few genes were induced by 250 mm NaCl stress in contrast to Arabidopsis. Notably a large number of known abiotic- and biotic-stress inducible genes, including Fe-SOD, P5CS, PDF1.2, AtNCED, P-protein, β-glucosidase, and SOS1, were expressed in salt cress at high levels even in the absence of stress. Under normal growing conditions, salt cress accumulated Pro at much higher levels than did Arabidopsis, and this corresponded to a higher expression of AtP5CS in salt cress, a key enzyme of Pro biosynthesis. Furthermore, salt cress was more tolerant to oxidative stress than Arabidopsis. Stress tolerance of salt cress may be due to constitutive overexpression of many genes that function in stress tolerance and that are stress inducible in Arabidopsis.
