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JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 171, Issue 6, Pages 438-447Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2013.12.001
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HKT1;2 transporter; Salt tolerance; Solanum lycopersicum; Solanum pennellii
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HKT1 has been shown to be essential in Na+ homeostasis in plants. In this paper, we report the analysis of Na+ accumulation in different plant organs of two tomato species with contrasting salt tolerances: Solanum lycopersicum and Solanum pennellii. Furthermore, we relate these differences in Na+ accumulation between the two species to the differences in HKT1;2 transport kinetics and HICT1;2 expression. S. lycopersicum showed Na+ excluder behaviour, whereas S. pennellii showed Na+ includer behaviour. SlHKT1;2 expression, in contrast to. SpHKT1;2 expression showed a significant effect of NaCl treatment, especially stems had a high increase in SlHKT1:2 expression. SlHKT1:2 promoter-GUS reporter gene analysis showed that SlHKT1;2 is expressed in the vasculature surrounding the roots and shoots of transformed Arabidopsis plants. In this paper, we present HKT1;2 protein sequences of both tomato species and provide evidence that both SlHKT1;2 and SpHKT1;2 are Na+ transporters. Our kinetic studies showed that SpHKT1;2, in comparison with SlHKT1;2, had a lower affinity for Na+. This low affinity of SpHKT1;2 correlated with higher xylem Na+ and higher accumulation of Na+ in stems and leaves of S. pennellii. Our findings demonstrate the importance of the understanding of transport characteristics of HKT1:2 transporters to improve the understanding of Na+ homeostasis in plants. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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