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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
Volume 64, Issue 11, Pages 3169-3178Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ert153
Keywords
Arabidopsis thaliana; ascorbic acid; chlorosis; glutathione; iron deficiency; reactive oxygen species
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- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
- Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina
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Iron is an essential micronutrient required for a wide variety of cellular functions in plant growth and development. Chlorosis is the first visible symptom in iron-deficient plants. Glutathione (GSH) and ascorbic acid (ASC) are multifunctional metabolites playing important roles in redox balancing. In this work, it was shown that GSH and ASC treatment prevented chlorosis and the accumulation of reactive oxygen species induced by iron deficiency in Arabidopsis leaves. In iron deficiency, GSH and ASC increased the activity of the heme protein ascorbate peroxidase at a similar level to that found in iron-sufficient seedlings. GSH was also able to preserve the levels of the ironsulfur protein ferredoxin 2. GSH content decreased 25% in iron-deficient Arabidopsis seedlings, whereas the ASC levels were not affected. Taken together, these results showed that GSH and ASC supplementation protects Arabidopsis seedlings from iron deficiency, preserving cell redox homeostasis and improving internal iron availability.
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