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Deryabin A, Zhukova K, Naraikina N, Venzhik Y. Effect of Low Temperature on Content of Primary Metabolites in Two Wheat Genotypes Differing in Cold Tolerance. Metabolites 2024; 14:199. [PMID: 38668327 PMCID: PMC11052526 DOI: 10.3390/metabo14040199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2024] [Revised: 03/11/2024] [Accepted: 04/01/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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The study of cold-tolerance mechanisms of wheat as a leading cereal crop is very relevant to science. Primary metabolites play an important role in the formation of increased cold tolerance. The aim of this research is to define changes in the content of primary metabolites (soluble proteins and sugars), growth, and photosynthetic apparatus of freezing-tolerant and cold-sustainable wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes under optimal conditions and after prolonged (7 days) exposure to low temperature (4 °C). In order to gain a deeper comprehension of the mechanisms behind wheat genotypes' adaptation to cold, we determined the expression levels of photosynthetic genes (RbcS, RbcL) and genes encoding cold-regulated proteins (Wcor726, CBF14). The results indicated different cold-adaptation strategies of freezing-tolerant and cold-sustainable wheat genotypes, with soluble proteins and sugars playing a significant role in this process. In plants of freezing-tolerant genotypes, the strategy of adaptation to low temperature was aimed at increasing the content of soluble proteins and modification of carbohydrate metabolism. The accumulation of sugars was not observed in wheat of cold-sustainable genotypes during chilling, but a high content of soluble proteins was maintained both under optimal conditions and after cold exposure. The adaptation strategies of wheat genotypes differing in cold tolerance were related to the expression of photosynthetic genes and genes encoding cold-regulated proteins. The data improve our knowledge of physiological and biochemical mechanisms of wheat cold adaptation.
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- Alexander Deryabin
- K. A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 127276, Russia; (K.Z.); (N.N.); (Y.V.)
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Stegner M, Flörl A, Lindner J, Plangger S, Schaefernolte T, Strasser A, Thoma V, Walde J, Neuner G. Freeze dehydration vs. supercooling of mesophyll cells: Impact of cell wall, cellular and tissue traits on the extent of water displacement. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2022; 174:e13793. [PMID: 36190477 PMCID: PMC9828361 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The extent of freeze dehydration of mesophyll cells in response to extracellular ice varies from supercooling to severe freezing cytorrhysis. The structural factors involved are poorly understood. In a comparison of mesophyll cells of 11 species, the factors "cell wall", "cellular" and "tissue" traits were investigated. The extent of freeze dehydration was quantified as reduction in the sectional area during controlled freezing in the presence of ice. The cell wall thickness, cell size, cell area and the relative area of intercellular spaces were determined. The modulus of elasticity was determined by psychrometry. To grasp the relationships between factors and with freeze dehydration, we applied a principal component analysis. The first two components explain 84% of the variance in the dataset. The first principal component correlated negatively with the extent of freeze dehydration and relative area of intercellular spaces, and positively with the squared cell wall thickness to cell size ratio, elasticity and cell wall thickness. The cell size parameters determined the second principal component. Supercooling appeared preferable in cells with a high squared cell wall thickness to cell size ratio and a low relative area of intercellular spaces. Such factors are hypothesised to affect the magnitude of negative turgor pressure being built up below the turgor loss point. Negative turgor pressure slows dehydration by reducing the water potential gradient to the extracellular ice. With high levels of freeze dehydration, sufficient intercellular spaces for extracellular ice accommodation are needed. The low relative area of intercellular spaces increases cell-to-cell contact area and could support tissue stability.
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- Department of BotanyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Department of BotanyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Department of StatisticsUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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- Department of BotanyUniversity of InnsbruckInnsbruckAustria
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Cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy to Study the Freezing Behavior of Plant Tissues. Methods Mol Biol 2020. [PMID: 32607978 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0660-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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A cryo-scanning electron microscope (cryo-SEM) is a valuable tool for observing bulk frozen samples to monitor freezing responses of plant tissues and cells. Here, the essential processes of a cryo-SEM to observe freezing behaviors of plant tissue cells are described.
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Transport phenomena and their effect on microstructure of frozen fruits and vegetables. Trends Food Sci Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2020.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Zhou L, He YJ, Li J, Li LZ, Liu Y, Chen HY. An eggplant SmICE1a gene encoding MYC-type ICE1-like transcription factor enhances freezing tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT BIOLOGY (STUTTGART, GERMANY) 2020; 22:450-458. [PMID: 32009285 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Low temperature is a crucial environmental factor affecting the quality and production of eggplant. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the molecular mechanisms of low temperature response. We isolated an ICE (inducer of CBF expression) gene from Solanum melongena, named SmICE1a. We then analysed structure, transcriptional activity and expression patterns of SmICE1a. Moreover, we also expressed SmICE1a in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bioinformatics and expression analysis showed that SmICE1a has a typical S-rich motif, ZIP region, bHLH and ACT-like domain. The gene SmICE1a had transcriptional activity in yeast and was localized to the nucleus following transient expression in tobacco leaves, which suggests that SmICE1a is a transcription factor. A dual-LUC assay revealed that SmICE1a can enhance expression of SmCBF. Overexpression of SmICE1a in Arabidopsis increased freezing tolerance and caused multiple biochemical changes: transgenic lines have higher proline content and lower electrolyte leakage and malondialdehyde than the wild type in cold conditions. The expression of AtCBF and their target genes, AtCOR15A, AtCOR47, AtKIN1 and AtRD29A, were up-regulated in SmICE1a-overexpressing plants under low temperatures. Based on these results, we suggest that SmICE1a plays an important role in cold response, which may help to understand the cold response mechanism in eggplant and could be used to enhance cold tolerance of eggplant in future.
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- L Zhou
- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Fujikawa S, Endoh K. Cryo-scanning electron microscopy to study the freezing behavior of plant tissues. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1166:99-116. [PMID: 24852632 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0844-8_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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A cryo-scanning electron microscope (cryo-SEM) is a valuable tool for observing bulk frozen samples to monitor freezing responses of plant tissues and cells. Here, essential processes of a cryo-SEM to observe freezing behaviors of plant tissue cells are described.
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- Seizo Fujikawa
- Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita 9, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8589, Japan,
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Effects of a type I antifreeze protein (AFP) on the melting of frozen AFP and AFP+solute aqueous solutions studied by NMR microimaging experiment. J Biol Phys 2012; 39:131-44. [PMID: 23860838 DOI: 10.1007/s10867-012-9291-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2012] [Accepted: 10/10/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022] Open
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The effects of a type I AFP on the bulk melting of frozen AFP solutions and frozen AFP+solute solutions were studied through an NMR microimaging experiment. The solutes studied include sodium chloride and glucose and the amino acids alanine, threonine, arginine, and aspartic acid. We found that the AFP is able to induce the bulk melting of the frozen AFP solutions at temperatures lower than 0 °C and can also keep the ice melted at higher temperatures in the AFP+solute solutions than those in the corresponding solute solutions. The latter shows that the ice phases were in super-heated states in the frozen AFP+solute solutions. We have tried to understand the first experimental phenomenon via the recent theoretical prediction that type I AFP can induce the local melting of ice upon adsorption to ice surfaces. The latter experimental phenomenon was explained with the hypothesis that the adsorption of AFP to ice surfaces introduces a less hydrophilic water-AFP-ice interfacial region, which repels the ionic/hydrophilic solutes. Thus, this interfacial region formed an intermediate chemical potential layer between the water phase and the ice phase, which prevented the transfer of water from the ice phase to the water phase. We have also attempted to understand the significance of the observed melting phenomena to the survival of organisms that express AFPs over cold winters.
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Buchner O, Neuner G. Freezing cytorrhysis and critical temperature thresholds for photosystem II in the peat moss Sphagnum capillifolium. PROTOPLASMA 2010; 243:63-71. [PMID: 19495938 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-009-0053-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2009] [Accepted: 05/15/2009] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Leaflets of Sphagnum capillifolium were exposed to temperatures from -5 degrees C to +60 degrees C under controlled conditions while mounted on a microscope stage. The resultant cytological response to these temperature treatments was successfully monitored using a light and fluorescence microscope. In addition to the observable cytological changes during freezing cytorrhysis and heat exposure on the leaflets, the concomitant critical temperature thresholds for inactivation of photosystem II (PS II) were studied using a micro fibre optic and a chlorophyll fluorometer mounted to the microscope stage. Chlorophyllous cells of S. capillifolium showed extended freezing cytorrhysis immediately after ice nucleation at -1.1 degrees C in the water in which the leaflets were submersed during the measurement. The occurrence of freezing cytorrhysis, which was visually manifested by cell shrinkage, was highly dynamic and was completed within 2 s. A total reduction of the mean projected diameter of the chloroplast containing area during freezing cytorrhysis from 8.9 to 3.8 microm indicates a cell volume reduction of approximately -82%. Simultaneous measurement of chlorophyll fluorescence of PS II was possible even through the frozen water in which the leaf samples were submersed. Freezing cytorrhysis was accompanied by a sudden rise of basic chlorophyll fluorescence. The critical freezing temperature threshold of PS II was identical to the ice nucleation temperature (-1.1 degrees C). This is significantly above the temperature threshold at which frost damage to S. capillifolium leaflets occurs (-16.1 degrees C; LT(50)) which is higher than observed in most higher plants from the European Alps during summer. High temperature thresholds of PS II were 44.5 degrees C which is significantly below the heat tolerance of chlorophyllous cells (49.9 degrees C; LT(50)). It is demonstrated that light and fluorescence microscopic techniques combined with simultaneous chlorophyll fluorescence measurements may act as a useful tool to study heat, low temperature, and ice-encasement effects on the cellular structure and primary photosynthetic processes of intact leaf tissues.
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- Othmar Buchner
- Department of Physiology and Cell Physiology of Alpine Plants, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Botany, Sternwartestrasse 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
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Liu MZ, Osborne CP. Leaf cold acclimation and freezing injury in C3 and C4 grasses of the Mongolian Plateau. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2008; 59:4161-70. [PMID: 18980952 PMCID: PMC2639018 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2008] [Revised: 09/22/2008] [Accepted: 09/23/2008] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The scarcity of C4 plants in cool climates is usually attributed to their lower photosynthetic efficiency than C3 species at low temperatures. However, a lower freezing resistance may also decrease the competitive advantage of C4 plants by reducing canopy duration, especially in continental steppe grasslands, where a short, hot growing season is bracketed by frost events. This paper reports an experimental test of the hypothesis that cold acclimation is negligible in C4 grasses, leading to greater frost damage than in C3 species. The experiments exposed six C3 and three C4 Mongolian steppe grasses to 20 d chilling or control pre-treatments, followed by a high-light freezing event. Leaf resistance to freezing injury was independent of photosynthetic type. Three C3 species showed constitutive freezing resistance characterized by <20% leaf mortality, associated with high photosynthetic carbon fixation and electron transport rates and low leaf osmotic potential. One freezing-sensitive C4 species showed the expected pattern of chilling-induced damage to photosynthesis and >95% leaf mortality after the freezing event. However, three C3 and two C4 species displayed a cold acclimation response, showing significant decreases in osmotic potential and photosynthesis after exposure to chilling, and a 30-72% reduction of leaf freezing injury. This result suggested that down-regulation of osmotic potential may be involved in the cold acclimation process, and demonstrated that there is no inherent barrier to the development of cold acclimation in C4 species from this ecosystem. Cold acclimation via osmoregulation represents a previously undescribed mechanism to explain the persistence of C4 plants in cool climates.
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- Mei-Zhen Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Margesin R, Neuner G, Storey KB. Cold-loving microbes, plants, and animals--fundamental and applied aspects. THE SCIENCE OF NATURE - NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN 2006; 94:77-99. [PMID: 17039344 DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0162-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2005] [Revised: 08/11/2006] [Accepted: 08/22/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Microorganisms, plants, and animals have successfully colonized cold environments, which represent the majority of the biosphere on Earth. They have evolved special mechanisms to overcome the life-endangering influence of low temperature and to survive freezing. Cold adaptation includes a complex range of structural and functional adaptations at the level of all cellular constituents, such as membranes, proteins, metabolic activity, and mechanisms to avoid the destructive effect of intracellular ice formation. These strategies offer multiple biotechnological applications of cold-adapted organisms and/or their products in various fields. In this review, we describe the mechanisms of microorganisms, plants, and animals to cope with the cold and the resulting biotechnological perspectives.
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- R Margesin
- Institute of Microbiology, Leopold Franzens University, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Pratt RB, Ewers FW, Lawson MC, Jacobsen AL, Brediger MM, Davis SD. Mechanisms for tolerating freeze-thaw stress of two evergreen chaparral species: Rhus ovata and Malosma laurina (Anacardiaceae). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 2005; 92:1102-1113. [PMID: 21646132 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.92.7.1102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The response to freeze-thaw stress was examined for two co-occurring evergreen species, Malosma laurina and Rhus ovata. Laboratory and field experiments on adults and seedlings were made in the spring and winter in 1996 and again on adults in 2003 and 2004. Laboratory and field results indicated that the stem xylem for adults of M. laurina and R. ovata were similarly susceptible to freezing-induced cavitation (percentage loss of conductivity = 92 ± 2.6% for R. ovata and 90 ± 4.2% for M. laurina at ≤ -6°C). In contrast, leaves of M. laurina were more susceptible to freezing injury than leaves of R. ovata. Among seedlings in the field, leaves of M. laurina exhibited freezing injury at -4°C and total shoot mortality at -7.2°C, whereas co-occurring seedlings of R. ovata were uninjured. Surprisingly, R. ovata tolerates high levels of freezing-induced xylem embolism in the field, an apparently rare condition among evergreen plants. Rhus ovata avoids desiccation when xylem embolism is high by exhibiting low minimum leaf conductance compared to M. laurina. These results suggest a link between minimum leaf conductance and stem hydraulics as a mechanism permitting the persistence of an evergreen leaf habit in freezing environments.
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- R B Pratt
- Natural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California 90263 USA
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Guy CL. Freezing tolerance of plants: current understanding and selected emerging concepts. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1139/b03-130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The formation of ice on and inside plant tissues represents a major challenge to survival. The resulting phase transition and spatial redistribution of liquid water from inside the cell to extracellular ice results in physical changes to cells and enormous physical stresses and strains. The ability of higher plants to acclimate and tolerate freezing stress is a complex quantitative trait and the product of the activities of not one, but a sizable suite of genes. Many of the known cold-regulated genes are under the control of a primary master regulator, CBF/DREB1, but it is not likely to be the sole master regulator. In considering the origin of freezing tolerance in higher plants, it has been suggested that freezing tolerance likely arose by adopting drought tolerance mechanisms. This may explain why many genes responsive to cold stress are also responsive to drought and (or) other osmotic stresses.Key words: abiotic, dehydration, gene expression, physiology, signal transduction, transcriptome.
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Borovskii GB, Stupnikova IV, Antipina AI, Vladimirova SV, Voinikov VK. Accumulation of dehydrin-like proteins in the mitochondria of cereals in response to cold, freezing, drought and ABA treatment. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2002; 2:5. [PMID: 12057012 PMCID: PMC116594 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-2-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2001] [Accepted: 06/11/2002] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Dehydrins are known as Group II late embryogenesis abundant proteins. Their high hydrophilicity and thermostability suggest that they may be structure stabilizers with detergent and chaperone-like properties. They are localised in the nucleus, cytoplasm, and plasma membrane. We have recently found putative dehydrins in the mitochondria of some cereals in response to cold. It is not known whether dehydrin-like proteins accumulate in plant mitochondria in response to stimuli other than cold stress. RESULTS We have found five putative dehydrins in the mitochondria of winter wheat, rye and maize seedlings. Two of these polypeptides had the same molecular masses in all three species (63 and 52 kD) and were thermostable. Drought, freezing, cold, and exogenous ABA treatment led to higher accumulation of dehydrin-like protein (dlp) 63 kD in the rye and wheat mitochondria. Protein 52 kD was induced by cold adaptation and ABA. Some accumulation of these proteins in the maize mitochondria was found after cold exposition only. The other three proteins appeared to be heat-sensitive and were either slightly induced or not induced at all by all treatments used. CONCLUSIONS We have found that, not only cold, but also drought, freezing and exogenous ABA treatment result in accumulation of the thermostable dehydrins in plant mitochondria. Most cryotolerant species such as wheat and rye accumulate more heat-stable dehydrins than cryosensitive species such as maize. It has been supposed that their function is to stabilize proteins in the membrane or in the matrix. Heat-sensitive putative dehydrins probably are not involved in the stress reaction and adaptation of plants.
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- Genadii B Borovskii
- Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk-33, P.O.Box 1243, Irkutsk, Russia 664033
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- Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk-33, P.O.Box 1243, Irkutsk, Russia 664033
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- Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk-33, P.O.Box 1243, Irkutsk, Russia 664033
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- Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk-33, P.O.Box 1243, Irkutsk, Russia 664033
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- Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk-33, P.O.Box 1243, Irkutsk, Russia 664033
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