Nejvíce citovaný článek - PubMed ID 30798173
Role of polyamines in plant growth regulation of Rht wheat mutants
Common periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus L.) is an important medicinal plant used by the pharmaceutical industry. The present work aimed to determine the effect of low light intensity on the primary and secondary metabolic processes, using various photosynthesis and targeted and untargeted analytical techniques. Growth light had only limited effects on the photosynthetic electron transport processes, although membrane stability seemed slightly higher in plants growing under higher light conditions. The reduced growth light caused a reduction in certain primary metabolites, including amino acids and sugars, and it also reduced the contents of most of the phenolic compounds investigated in the present experiments. Interestingly, the differences in the growth light caused a much less pronounced difference in the alkaloid contents than that found in the flavonoid contents. However, besides the growth light, genotypic differences, most evident in flower colour, also affected some metabolic processes, including primary and secondary processes.
- Klíčová slova
- acclimation processes, flower colour, growth light, metabolomics, periwinkle, vinca alkaloids,
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
Plant height is among the most important agronomic traits influencing crop yield. Wheat lines carrying Rht genes are important in plant breeding due to their both higher yield capacity and better tolerance to certain environmental stresses. However, the effects of dwarf-inducing genes on stress acclimation mechanisms are still poorly understood. Under the present conditions, cadmium stress induced different stress responses and defence mechanisms in the wild-type and dwarf mutant, and the mutant with the Rht-B1c allele exhibited higher tolerance. In the wild type after cadmium treatment, the abscisic acid synthesis increased in the leaves, which in turn might have induced the polyamine and proline metabolisms in the roots. However, in the mutant line, the slight increment in the leaf abscisic acid content accompanied by relatively high salicylic acid accumulation was not sufficient to induce such a great accumulation of proline and putrescine. Although changes in proline and polyamines, especially putrescine, showed similar patterns, the accumulation of these compounds was antagonistically related to the phytochelatin synthesis in the roots of the wild type after cadmium stress. In the dwarf genotype, a favourable metabolic shift from the synthesis of polyamine and proline to that of phytochelatin was responsible for the higher cadmium tolerance observed.
