scholarly journals Phosphate starvation response precedes drought response in field-grown plants

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukari Nagatoshi ◽  
Kenta Ikazaki ◽  
Nobuyuki Mizuno ◽  
Yasufumi Kobayashi ◽  
Kenichiro Fujii ◽  
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Drought severely damages crop production, even under conditions so mild that the leaves show no signs of wilting. As effective methods for analyzing the field drought response have not been established, it is unclear how field-grown plants respond to mild drought. We show that ridges are a useful experimental tool to mimic mild drought stress in the field. Mild drought reduces inorganic phosphate levels in the leaves to activate the phosphate starvation response (PSR) in field-grown soybean plants. PSR-related gene expression is mainly observed under drought conditions that are too mild to activate abscisic acid-mediated gene expression. Thus, our study provides insights into the molecular response to mild drought in field-grown plants and into the link between nutritional and drought stress responses in plants.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia C. Haas ◽  
Alexander Vergara ◽  
Vaughan Hurry ◽  
Nathaniel R. Street

AbstractDrought stress impacts on seedling establishment, survival and whole-plant productivity. Drought stress responses have been extensively studied at the physiological and molecular level in angiosperms, particularly in agricultural species and the model Arabidopsis thaliana, with the vast majority of work performed on aboveground tissues. Boreal forests are dominated by coniferous tree species and cover vast areas of the terrestrial surface. These areas are predicted to be particularly influenced by ongoing climate change and will be exposed to more frequent and acute drought. The associated impact at all stages of the forest tree life cycle is expected to have large-scale ecological and economic impacts. To provide a comprehensive understanding of the drought response mechanisms of Picea abies seedlings, we assayed the physiological response of needles and transcriptional responses of roots and needles after exposure to mild and severe drought. Shoots and needles showed extensive reversible plasticity for physiological measures indicative of drought response mechanisms, including stomatal conductance (gs) and shoot water potential. Root and needle transcriptional responses contrasted, with an extensive root-specific down-regulation of growth. When we compared the responses of P. abies with previously-characterised A. thaliana drought response genes, we found that the majority of the genes were conserved across lineages. However, in P. abies, transcription factors (TFs) previously identified as belonging to the ABA-dependent pathway had a more limited role and most differentially expressed genes were specific to the stress response of P. abies. These results highlight the importance of profiling both above- and below-ground tissues and provide a comprehensive framework to advance understanding of the drought response mechanism of P. abies.One sentence summaryAnalysis of the drought transcriptome of Norway spruce reveals divergent molecular response pathways in conifers.


2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1782-1793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Wang ◽  
Yoon-Suk Kang ◽  
Abdullah Alowaifeer ◽  
Kaixiang Shi ◽  
Xia Fan ◽  
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PROTEOMICS ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1495-1511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda Maria Almeida von Krüger ◽  
Leticia Miranda Santos Lery ◽  
Marcia Regina Soares ◽  
Fernanda Saloum de Neves-Manta ◽  
Celia Maria Batista e Silva ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachele Falchi ◽  
Elisa Petrussa ◽  
Enrico Braidot ◽  
Paolo Sivilotti ◽  
Francesco Boscutti ◽  
...  

In grapevine, the anatomy of xylem conduits and the non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) content of the associated living parenchyma are expected to influence water transport under water limitation. In fact, both NSC and xylem features play a role in plant recovery from drought stress. We evaluated these traits in petioles of Cabernet Sauvignon (CS) and Syrah (SY) cultivars during water stress (WS) and recovery. In CS, the stress response was associated to NSC consumption, supporting the hypothesis that starch mobilization is related to an increased supply of maltose and sucrose, putatively involved in drought stress responses at the xylem level. In contrast, in SY, the WS-induced increase in the latter soluble NSCs was maintained even 2 days after re-watering, suggesting a different pattern of utilization of NSC resources. Interestingly, the anatomical analysis revealed that conduits are constitutively wider in SY in well-watered (WW) plants, and that water stress led to the production of narrower conduits only in this cultivar.


PROTEOMICS ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 3582-3601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Thi Hoi ◽  
Birgit Voigt ◽  
Britta Jürgen ◽  
Armin Ehrenreich ◽  
Gerhard Gottschalk ◽  
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