scholarly journals Calcium Application Enhances Drought Stress Tolerance in Sugar Beet and Promotes Plant Biomass and Beetroot Sucrose Concentration

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (15) ◽  
pp. 3777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Abdollah Hosseini ◽  
Elise Réthoré ◽  
Sylvain Pluchon ◽  
Nusrat Ali ◽  
Bastien Billiot ◽  
...  

Numerous studies have demonstrated the potential of sugar beet to lose the final sugar yield under water limiting regime. Ample evidences have revealed the important role of mineral nutrition in increasing plant tolerance to abiotic stresses. Despite the vital role of calcium (Ca2+) in plant growth and development, as well as in stress responses as an intracellular messenger, its role in alleviating drought stress in sugar beet has been rarely addressed. Here, an attempt was undertaken to investigate whether, and to what extent, foliar application of Ca2+ confers drought stress tolerance in sugar beet plants exposed to drought stress. To achieve this goal, sugar beet plants, which were grown in a high throughput phenotyping platform, were sprayed with Ca2+ and submitted to drought stress. The results showed that foliar application of Ca2+ increased the level of magnesium and silicon in the leaves, promoted plant growth, height, and leaf coverage area as well as chlorophyll level. Ca2+, in turn, increased the carbohydrate levels in leaves under drought condition and regulated transcriptionally the genes involved in sucrose transport (BvSUC3 and BvTST3). Subsequently, Ca2+ enhanced the root biomass and simultaneously led to induction of root (BvSUC3 and BvTST1) sucrose transporters which eventually supported the loading of more sucrose into beetroot under drought stress. Metabolite analysis revealed that the beneficial effect of Ca2+ in tolerance to drought induced-oxidative stress is most likely mediated by higher glutathione pools, increased levels of free polyamine putrescine (Put), and lower levels of amino acid gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Taken together, this work demonstrates that foliar application of Ca2+ is a promising fertilization strategy to improve mineral nutrition efficiency, sugar metabolism, redox state, and thus, drought stress tolerance.

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Sujith Kumar ◽  
Kishwar Ali ◽  
Anil Dahuja ◽  
Aruna Tyagi

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naeem ◽  
Muhammad Shahbaz Naeem ◽  
Rashid Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Zahid Ihsan ◽  
Muhammad Yasin Ashraf ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanwy Dasmandal ◽  
A. R. Rao ◽  
Sarika Sahu

With the development of efficient algorithms, it has become feasible to unravel complex drought stress tolerance mechanism in leguminous crops. Even though the role of coding genes in drought stress tolerance mechanism is known to certain extent, the role of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) like circular RNAs (circRNAs) is unknown in leguminous crops like chickpea and soybean. Hence, a study has been taken up to predict the circular RNAs from the transcriptomes of chickpea and soybean and to study the circRNA-miRNA-mRNA interactions thereby identify the endogenous target mimics (eTMs). The in silico results revealed the presence of circRNAs in both the crop transcriptomes and their differential expressions under drought stress and control conditions. Besides, our findings showed three predicted eTMs where circRNAs acted as sponge for miRNAs that target genes like Glyma.18G065200.1 in soybean and XM_004517122, XM_027336693 in chickpea. The targeted genes are involved in various drought stress responsive mechanism through their activities in hormone signal transduction, response to stress, response to auxin and transcription factor activity.


Author(s):  
Diksha Sati ◽  
Veni Pande ◽  
Satish Chandra Pandey ◽  
Mukesh Samant

Increased severity of droughts, due to anthropogenic activities and global warming has imposed a severe threat on agricultural productivity ever before. This has further advanced the need for some eco-friendly approaches to ensure global food security. In this regard, application of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can be beneficial. PGPR through various mechanisms viz. osmotic adjustments, increased antioxidant, phytohormone production, regulating stomatal conductivity, increased nutrient uptake, releasing Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and Exo-polysaccharide (EPS) production, etc not only ensures the plant’s survival during drought but also augment its growth. This review, extensively discusses the various mechanisms of PGPR in drought stress tolerance. We have also summarized the recent molecular and omics-based approaches for elucidating the role of drought responsive genes. The manuscript presents an in-depth mechanistic approach to combat the drought stress and also deals with designing PGPR based bioinoculants. Lastly, we present a possible sequence of steps for increasing the success rate of bioinoculants.


Author(s):  
Ch. R. Allagulova ◽  
A. M. Avalbaev ◽  
O. V. Lastochkina

Endophytic bacteria Bacillus subtilis, which belongs to plant growth promoting microorganisms, are considered as an alternative to agrochemicals for increasing of wheat drought stress tolerance.


2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 548
Author(s):  
Miao Hongxia ◽  
Wang Yuan ◽  
Xu Biyu ◽  
Liu Juhua ◽  
Jia Caihong ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 1248-1262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Smith ◽  
Shanshuo Zhu ◽  
Lisa Joos ◽  
Ianto Roberts ◽  
Natalia Nikonorova ◽  
...  

Peptides derived from non-functional precursors play important roles in various developmental processes, but also in (a)biotic stress signaling. Our (phospho)proteome-wide analyses of C-TERMINALLY ENCODED PEPTIDE 5 (CEP5)-mediated changes revealed an impact on abiotic stress-related processes. Drought has a dramatic impact on plant growth, development and reproduction, and the plant hormone auxin plays a role in drought responses. Our genetic, physiological, biochemical, and pharmacological results demonstrated that CEP5-mediated signaling is relevant for osmotic and drought stress tolerance in Arabidopsis, and that CEP5 specifically counteracts auxin effects. Specifically, we found that CEP5 signaling stabilizes AUX/IAA transcriptional repressors, suggesting the existence of a novel peptide-dependent control mechanism that tunes auxin signaling. These observations align with the recently described role of AUX/IAAs in stress tolerance and provide a novel role for CEP5 in osmotic and drought stress tolerance.


Author(s):  
Manu Kumar

Many studies were done in the development of drought stress-tolerant transgenic plants, including crop plants. Rice is considered to be a vital crop target for improving drought stress tolerance. Much transgenic rice showed improved drought stress tolerance was reported to date. They are genetically engineered plants that are developed by using genes that encode proteins involved in drought stress regulatory networks. These proteins include protein kinases, transcription factors, enzymes related to osmoprotectant or plant hormone synthesis, receptor-like kinase. Of the drought stress-tolerant transgenic rice plants described in this review, most of them display retarded plant growth. In crop crops, plant health is a fundamental agronomic trait that can directly affect yield. By understanding the regulatory mechanisms of retarded plant growth under drought stress, conditions are necessary precursors to developing genetically modified plants that result in high yields.


Gene ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 506 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nese Sreenivasulu ◽  
Vokkaliga T. Harshavardhan ◽  
Geetha Govind ◽  
Christiane Seiler ◽  
Ajay Kohli

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