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JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 171, Issue 3-4, Pages 359-372Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2013.08.002
Keywords
Agave sp.; Abiotic stress; Biotic stress; Fructo-oligosaccharides; Fructosyltransferases
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- Red de Agavaceas del Sistema Nacional de Recursos Fitogeneticos (SINAREFI)
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The expression of genes coding for sucrose:sucrose 1-fructosyltransferase (1-SST; EC 2.4.1.99) and fructan:fructan 1-fructosyltransferase (1-FFT; EC 2.4.1.100), both fructan biosynthesizing enzymes, characterization by TLC and HPAEC-PAD, as well as the quantification of the fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) accumulating in response to the exogenous application of sucrose, kinetin (cytokinin) or other plant hormones associated with (a)biotic stress responses were determined in two Agave species grown in vitro, domesticated Agave tequilana var. azul and wild A. inaequidens. It was found that elicitors such as salicylic acid (SA), and jasmonic acid methyl ester (MeJA) had the strongest effect on fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS) accumulation. The exogenous application of 1 mM SA induced a 36-fold accumulation of FOS of various degrees of polymerization (DP) in stems of A. tequilana. Other treatments, such as 50 mM abscisic acid (ABA), 8% Sucrose (Suc), and 1.0 mg L-1 kinetin (KIN) also led to a significant accumulation of low and high DP FOS in this species. Conversely, treatment with 200 mu M MeJA, which was toxic to A. tequilana, induced an 85-fold accumulation of FOS in the stems of A. inaequidens. Significant FOS accumulation in this species also occurred in response to treatments with 1 mM SA, 8% Suc, and 10% polyethylene glycol (PEG). Maximum yields of 13.6 and 8.9 mg FOS per g FW were obtained in stems ofA. tequilana and A. inaequietens, respectively. FOS accumulation in the above treatments was tightly associated with increased expression levels of either the 1-FFT or the 1-SST gene in tissues of both Agave species. (C) 2013 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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