Gill et al (2017) Frontiers_reprint.pdf (1.25 MB)
Cell-based phenotyping reveals QTL for membrane potential maintenance associated with hypoxia and salinity stress tolerance in barley
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-19, 14:00 authored by Muhammad Gill, Zeng, F, Svetlana ShabalaSvetlana Shabala, Zhang, G, Fan, Y, Sergey ShabalaSergey Shabala, Meixue ZhouMeixue ZhouWaterlogging and salinity are two major abiotic stresses that hamper crop production world-wide resulting in multibillion losses. Plant abiotic stress tolerance is conferred by many interrelated mechanisms. Amongst these, the cell’s ability to maintain membrane potential (MP) is considered to be amongst the most crucial traits, a positive relationship between the ability of plants to maintain highly negative MP and its tolerance to both salinity and waterlogging stress. However, no attempts have been made to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) conferring this trait. In this study, the microelectrode MIFE technique was used to measure the plasma membrane potential of epidermal root cells of 150 double haploid (DH) lines of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from a cross between a Chinese landrace TX9425 and Japanese malting cultivar Naso Nijo under hypoxic conditions. A major QTL for the MP in the epidermal root cells in hypoxia-exposed plants was identified. This QTL was located on 2H, at a similar position to the QTL for waterlogging and salinity tolerance reported in previous studies. Further analysis confirmed that MP showed a significant contribution to both waterlogging and salinity tolerance. The fact that the QTL for MP was controlled by a single major QTL illustrates the power of the single-cell phenotyping approach and opens prospects for fine mapping this QTL and thus being more effective in marker assisted selection.
History
Publication title
Frontiers in Plant ScienceVolume
8Article number
1941Number
1941Pagination
1-9ISSN
1664-462XDepartment/School
Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)Publisher
Frontiers Research FoundationPlace of publication
SwitzerlandRights statement
2017 Gill, Zeng, Shabala, Zhang, Fan, Shabala and Zhou. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Repository Status
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