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New insights into the role of spermine in Arabidopsis thaliana under long-term salt stress
Ist Teil von
Plant science (Limerick), 2012, Vol.182, p.94-100
Ort / Verlag
Ireland: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
► Polyamines have been implicated in the response of plants to salt stress ► We studied the response to the ionic effect of salt stress by salt acclimation ► Mutants in SOS pathway and in spermine/thermospermine synthesis have been used ► Induction in polyamine metabolism is a SOS-independent response to salinity ► Spermine and thermospermine are required for plant tolerance to long-term salt stress
Polyamines (putrescine, spermidine and spermine) are traditionally implicated in the response of plants to environmental cues. Free spermine accumulation has been suggested as a particular feature of long-term salt stress, and in the model plant
Arabidopsis thaliana the spermine synthase gene (
AtSPMS) has been reported as inducible by abscisic acid (ABA) and acute salt stress treatments. With the aim to unravel the physiological role of free spermine during salinity, we analyzed polyamine metabolism in
A. thaliana salt-hypersensitive
sos mutants (
salt
overlay
sensitive
;
sos1-1,
sos2-1 and
sos3-1), and studied the salt stress tolerance of the mutants in spermine and thermospermine synthesis (
acl5-1,
spms-1 and
acl5-1/spms-1). Results presented here indicate that induction in polyamine metabolism is a SOS-independent response to salinity and is globally over-induced in a sensitive background. In addition, under long-term salinity, the mutants in the synthesis of spermine and thermospermine (
acl5-1,
spms-1 and double
acl5-1/spms-1) accumulated more Na
+ and performed worst than WT in survival experiments. Therefore, support is given to a role for these higher polyamines in salt tolerance mechanisms.