Journal
PLANT BREEDING
Volume 128, Issue 4, Pages 404-410Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2008.01593.x
Keywords
abiotic stress; Ad29 promoter; Populus peroxisomal ascorbate peroxidase(PpAPX); transgenic tobacco
Funding
- Chinese Ministry of Education [106039]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30400340]
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Ascorbate peroxidase (APX) plays an important role in the metabolism of hydrogen peroxide in higher plants. We studied the effect of over-expressing a Populus peroxisomal ascorbate peroxidase (PpAPX) gene under the control of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter or the rd29 promoter in transgenic tobacco. High levels of PpAPX gene expression were observed in 35S-PpAPX transgenic plants, with a 50% increase in APX activity. The constitutive expression of PpAPX in the tobacco exhibited no morphological abnormalities, while significantly increased root growth was observed in transgenic plants, when compared to control plants. Several independently transformed lines were propagated and evaluated for resistance to methyl viologen (MV), drought and salt stress. Visual assessment of transgenic and control lines exposed to MV (50 or 100 mu mol) confirmed that over-expression of APX minimized leaf damage. APX activity was nearly 80% higher in the leaves of transgenic plants in response to drought or salt stresses. Moreover, the transgenic tobacco also showed significantly improved drought resistance and salt tolerance at the vegetative stage. RNA blot analysis indicated that the PpAPX transcript level was very low under normal growing conditions in rd29Ap-PpAPX plants, but clearly increased under drought stress. Our results show that PpAPX does not play a significant role under normal growing conditions, but did ameliorate oxidative injury under abiotic stress. The Ad29 promoter should be used as an inducible promoter in transgenic works.
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