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In Concert: Orchestrated Changes in Carbohydrate Homeostasis Are Critical for Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Ist Teil von
Plant and cell physiology, 2018-07, Vol.59 (7), p.1290-1299
Ort / Verlag
Japan: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Quelle
Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Abstract
The sessile lifestyle of higher plants is accompanied by their remarkable ability to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions. This is because, during evolution, plants developed a sophisticated repertoire of molecular and metabolic reactions to cope with changing biotic and abiotic challenges. In particular, the abiotic factors light intensity and ambient temperature are characterized by altering their amplitude within comparably short periods of time and are causative for onset of dynamic plant responses. These rapid responses in plants are also classified as ‘acclimation reactions’ which differ, due to their reversibility and duration, from non-reversible ‘adaptation reactions’. In this review, we demonstrate the remarkable importance of stress-induced changes in carbohydrate homeostasis of plants exposed to high light or low temperatures. These changes represent a co-ordinated process comprising modifications of (i) the concentrations of selected sugars; (ii) starch turnover; (iii) intracellular sugar compartmentation; and (iv) corresponding gene expression patterns. The critical importance of these individual processes has been underlined in the recent past by the analyses of a large number of mutant plants. The outcome of these analyses raised our understanding of acclimation processes in plants per se but might even become instrumental to develop new concepts for directed breeding approaches with the aim to increase abiotic stress tolerance of crop species, which in most cases have high stress sensitivity. The latter direction of plant research is of special importance since abiotic stress stimuli strongly impact on crop productivity and are expected to become even more pronounced because of human activities which alter environmental conditions rapidly.
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 0032-0781
eISSN: 1471-9053
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcy037
Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2002485787
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