scholarly journals Toward Unravelling the Genetic Determinism of the Acquisition of Salt and Osmotic Stress Tolerance Through In Vitro Selection in Medicago truncatula

Author(s):  
Adel M. Elmaghrabi ◽  
Hilary J. Rogers ◽  
Dennis Francis ◽  
Sergio Ochatt
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Lin-Feng Wang ◽  
Ting-Ting Li ◽  
Wen-Cheng Liu

Almost all abiotic stresses induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) overaccumulation, causing oxidative damages to plant cells. Catalase (CAT) plays a vital role in plant oxidative stress tolerance by scavenging stress-induced excess H2O2; thus, the identification of factors regulating catalase function will shed light on the underlying regulatory mechanisms. Here, we identified leucine aminopeptidase 2 (LAP2) as a novel CAT2-interacting protein and showed a mutual promotion effect of the two proteins in plant stress responses. LAP2 has a physical interaction with CAT2 in plant cells. The loss-of-function mutant of LAP2, lap2-3, is hypersensitive to salt or osmotic stress with increased ROS accumulation and malondialdehyde content and decreased catalase activity. The lap2-3 mutant has less CAT2 protein levels as CAT2 protein stability is impaired in the mutant. Scavenging excess ROS by glutathione or overexpressing CAT2 in the lap2-3 mutant recovers its hypersensitive phenotype to salt or osmotic stress. Further study showed that CAT2 promotes LAP2 hydrolysis activity with leucine-4-methylcoumaryl-7-amides as a substrate in vivo and in vitro, and thus, similar to the lap2-3 mutant, the cat2-1 mutant also has lower γ-aminobutyric acid content than the wild type. Together, our study reveals mutual promotion effects of CAT2 and LAP2 in conferring plant salt and osmotic stress tolerance.


3 Biotech ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rim Mzid ◽  
Walid Zorrig ◽  
Rayda Ben Ayed ◽  
Karim Ben Hamed ◽  
Mariem Ayadi ◽  
...  

Euphytica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 193 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh Luan Nguyen ◽  
Goon-Bo Kim ◽  
Sun-Hee Hyun ◽  
Seok-Young Lee ◽  
Chae-Young Lee ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 453-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Mousapour Gorji ◽  
Kinga Klara Matyas ◽  
Zsuzsanna Dublecz ◽  
Kincso Decsi ◽  
Istvan Cernak ◽  
...  

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