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Abstract. Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco; EC4.1.1.39) activase mRNA and protein synthesis were measured in the leaves of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) plants under control (28C) or heat-stress (41C) conditions. A decline in activase transcript abundance occurred rapidly during the photoperiod and was unaffected by heat stress. In response to high temperature, de novo protein...
Abstract. The relationship between the redox state of the photosystem (PS) I primary donor, P700, and thermal energy dissipation in PSI were examined in intact leaves using simultaneous measurements of absorbance changes at 830nm and variations of thermal emission monitored by photoacoustic (PA) spectroscopy, respectively. A strict proportionality (close to a 1:1 ratio) was found between the magnitudes...
Abstract. In several plant species, ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) activase consists of two isoforms that are produced by alternative splicing of a pre-mRNA. Two forms of activase corresponding to the longer, redox-regulated and the shorter, forms were detected immunologically in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) leaves, but their N-termini differed in 4 of 14 residues. The...
To examine the role of sulfoquinovosyl diacylglycerol (SQDG) in thylakoid membranes, we compared the structural and functional properties of photosystemII (PSII) between a mutant of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii defective in SQDG (hf-2) and the wild type. The PSII core complex of hf-2, as compared with that of the wild type, showed structural fragility when solubilized with a detergent, dodecyl -d-maltoside,...
We report on a new cDNA clone (Qshsp10.4-CI) of a Quercus suber L. class-CI small heat-shock protein (sHsp) obtained from cork (phellem), a highly oxidatively stressed plant tissue. The deduced gene product lacks the C-terminal extension and the consensusI region of the -crystallin domain, being the most C-terminally truncated sHsp reported to date. In an attempt to prove that a protective function...
In seed plants, formation of the adaxialabaxial polarity is of primary importance in leaf patterning. Since Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. genes ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 (AS1) and ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 (AS2) are key regulators in specifying adaxial leaf identity, and ERECTA is involved in the AS1/AS2 pathway for regulating adaxialabaxial polarity [L. Xu et al. (2003) Development 130:40974107], we studied...
Previously, the growth of Arabidopsis hit1-1 (heat-intolerant) mutant was found to be inhibited by both heat and water stress (Wu et al. in J Plant Physiol 157:543–547, 2000). In order to determine the genetic mutation underlying the hit1-1 phenotype, map-based cloning of HIT1 gene was conducted. Transformation of the hit1-1 mutant with a HIT1 cDNA clone reverts the mutant to the heat tolerance phenotype,...
Genetically engineered tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) with the ability to accumulate glycinebetaine was established. The wild type and transgenic plants were exposed to heat treatment (25–50°C) for 4 h in the dark and under growth light intensity (300 μmol m−2 s−1). The analyses of oxygen-evolving activity and chlorophyll fluorescence demonstrated that photosystem II (PSII) in transgenic plants showed...
Ascorbate oxidase (AO, EC 1.10.3.3) is a member of the multicopper oxidases family. It catalyzes the oxidation of ascorbic acid (AA) to dehydroascorbic acid (DHA) via monodehydroascorbate (MDHA), with the concomitant reduction of molecular oxygen to water. In melon (Cucumis melo), ascorbate oxidase is encoded by a multigene family comprising at least four genes. Here, we present the detailed characterization...
High temperature stress-induced male sterility is a critical problem in grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) that significantly compromises crop yields. Grain sorghum plants were grown season-long under ambient (30/20°C, day-time maximum/night-time minimum) and high temperature (36/26°C) conditions in sunlit Soil-Plant-Atmospheric-Research (SPAR) growth chambers. We report data on the effects...
The tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) fruit is the best available model to study the stress response of fleshy fruit. Programmed cell death (PCD) plays an important role in stress responses in mammals and plants. In this study, we provide evidence that PCD is triggered in the tomato fruit heat stress response by detection of the sequential diagnostic PCD events, including release of cytochrome c, activation...
Previously we observed that the oxygen-evolving complex 33 kDa protein (OEC33) which stabilizes the Mn cluster in photosystem II (PSII), was modified with malondialdehyde (MDA), an end-product of peroxidized polyunsaturated fatty acids, and the modification increased in heat-stressed plants (Yamauchi et al. 2008). In this study, we examined whether the modification of OEC33 with MDA affects its binding...
Limited information is available regarding the exact function of specific WRKY transcription factors in plant responses to heat stress. We analyzed the roles of WRKY25, WRKY26, and WRKY33, three types of group I WRKY proteins, in the regulation of resistance to heat stress. Expression of WRKY25 and WRKY26 was induced upon treatment with high temperature, whereas WRKY33 expression was repressed. Heat-treated...
Under a moderately heat-stressed condition, the photosystems of higher plants are damaged in the dark more easily than they are in the presence of light. To obtain a better understanding of this heat-derived damage mechanism that occurs in the dark, we focused on the involvement of the light-independent electron flow that occurs at 40 °C during the damage. In various plant species, the maximal photochemical...
Inhibition of photosynthesis by heat stress is accompanied by functional impairment of Rubisco’s chaperone, activase (RCA), resulting in deactivation of Rubisco. Since activase is extremely sensitive to thermal denaturation, changes in expression of RCA at the transcript or protein level could provide a mechanism for acclimation of photosynthesis to prolonged heat stress. Using quantitative real-time...
RING-finger proteins (RFP) function as ubiquitin ligases and play key roles in plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, little information is available on the regulation of RFP expression. Here, we isolate and characterize the RFP promoter sequence from the disease-resistant Chinese wild grape Vitis pseudoreticulata accession Baihe-35-1. Promoter-GUS fusion assays revealed that defense...
Miscanthus sinensis is a promising bioenergy crop; however, its genome is poorly represented in sequence databases. As an initial step in the comprehensive analysis of the M. sinensis proteome, we report a reference 2-DE protein map of the leaf. A total of 316 protein spots were excised from the gels, digested with trypsin and subjected to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight...
Time-to-event analysis represents a collection of relatively new, flexible, and robust statistical techniques for investigating the incidence and timing of transitions from one discrete condition to another. Plant biology is replete with examples of such transitions occurring from the cellular to population levels. However, application of these statistical methods has been rare in botanical research...
Key messageHigh soil temperature during bulking and maturation of potatoes alters postharvest carbohydrate metabolism to attenuate genotypic resistance to cold-induced sweetening and accelerate loss of process quality. Abstract The effects of soil temperature during tuber development on physiological processes affecting retention of postharvest quality in low-temperature sweetening (LTS) resistant...
Main conclusionHeat stress changes isoform content and distribution of cytoskeletal subunits in pollen tubes affecting accumulation of secretory vesicles and distribution of sucrose synthase, an enzyme involved in cell wall synthesis. Plants are sessile organisms and are therefore exposed to damages caused by the predictable increase in temperature...
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