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Revealing the roles of GORK channels and NADPH oxidase in acclimation to hypoxia in Arabidopsis
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Wang, F and Chen, Z-H and Liu, X and Colmer, TD and Shabala, L and Salih, A and Zhou, M and Shabala, S, Revealing the roles of GORK channels and NADPH oxidase in acclimation to hypoxia in Arabidopsis, Journal of Experimental Botany, 68, (12) pp. 3191-3204. ISSN 0022-0957 (2017) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Regulation of root cell K+ is essential for acclimation to low oxygen stress. The potential roles of GORK (depolarization-activated guard cell outward-rectifying potassium) channels and RBOHD (respiratory burst oxidase homologue D) in plant adaptive responses to hypoxia were investigated in the context of tissue specificity (epidermis versus stele; elongation versus mature zone) in roots of Arabidopsis. The expression of GORK and RBOHD was down-regulated by 2- to 3-fold within 1 h and 24 h of hypoxia treatment in Arabidopsis wild-type (WT) roots. Interestingly, a loss of the functional GORK channel resulted in a waterlogging-tolerant phenotype, while rbohD knockout was sensitive to waterlogging. To understand their functions under hypoxia stress, we studied K+, Ca2+, and reactive oxygen species (ROS) distribution in various root cell types. gork1-1 plants had better K+ retention ability in both the elongation and mature zone compared with the WT and rbohD under hypoxia. Hypoxia induced a Ca2+ increase in each cell type after 72 h, and the increase was much less pronounced in rbohD than in the WT. In most tissues except the elongation zone in rbohD, the H2O2 concentration had decreased after 1 h of hypoxia, but then increased significantly after 24 h of hypoxia in each zone and tissue, further suggesting that RBOHD may shape hypoxia-specific Ca2+ signatures via the modulation of apoplastic H2O2 production. Taken together, our data suggest that plants lacking functional GORK channels are more capable of retaining K+ for their better performance under hypoxia, and that RBOHD is crucial in hypoxia-induced Ca2+ signalling for stress sensing and acclimation mechanism.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | hypoxia, ROS, potassium, flooding, calcium, epidermis, fluorescence dyes, homeostasis, reactive oxygen species, signalling, stele, superoxide |
| Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
| Research Group: | Plant biology |
| Research Field: | Plant physiology |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Wang, F (Miss Feifei Wang) |
| UTAS Author: | Shabala, L (Associate Professor Lana Shabala) |
| UTAS Author: | Zhou, M (Professor Meixue Zhou) |
| UTAS Author: | Shabala, S (Professor Sergey Shabala) |
| ID Code: | 120875 |
| Year Published: | 2017 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 50 |
| Deposited By: | Agriculture and Food Systems |
| Deposited On: | 2017-08-31 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-07-27 |
| Downloads: | 125 View Download Statistics |
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