Journal
PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages 661-673Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00611.x
Keywords
dehydroascorbate reductase; glutathione; ascorbate; chloroplast transformant; abiotic stress; reactive oxygen species
Funding
- Science Foundation Ireland [06/RFP/EEB035]
- Enterprise Ireland [SC/2001/343]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [06/RFP/EEB035] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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One approach to understanding the Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)-scavenging systems in plant stress tolerance is to manipulate the levels of antioxidant enzyme activities. In this study, we expressed in the chloroplast three such enzymes: dehydroascorbate reductase (DHAR), glutathione-S-transferase (GST) and glutathione reductase (GR). Homoplasmic chloroplast transformants containing either DHAR or GST, or a combination of DHAR:GR and GST:GR were generated and confirmed by molecular analysis. They exhibited the predicted changes in enzyme activities, and levels or redox state of ascorbate and glutathione. Progeny of these plants were then subjected to environmental stresses including methyl viologen (MV)-induced oxidative stress, salt, cold and heavy metal stresses. Overexpression of these different enzymes enhanced salt and cold tolerance. The simultaneous expression of DHAR:GR and GST:GR conferred MV tolerance while expression of either transgene on its own didn't. This study provides evidence that increasing part of the antioxidant pathway within the chloroplast enhances the plant's ability to tolerate abiotic stress.
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