Journal
PLANT JOURNAL
Volume 77, Issue 3, Pages 367-379Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12388
Keywords
metabolomics; transcriptomics; stress tolerance; flavonols; anthocyanins
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- CREST, JST
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
- Japan Advanced Plant Science Network
- Strategic International Research Cooperative Program (SICP), JST
- Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP), JST
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22108001] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The notion that plants use specialized metabolism to protect against environmental stresses needs to be experimentally proven by addressing the question of whether stress tolerance by specialized metabolism is directly due to metabolites such as flavonoids. We report that flavonoids with radical scavenging activity mitigate against oxidative and drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. Metabolome and transcriptome profiling and experiments with oxidative and drought stress in wild-type, single overexpressors of MYB12/PFG1 (PRODUCTION OF FLAVONOL GLYCOSIDES1) or MYB75/PAP1 (PRODUCTION OF ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT1), double overexpressors of MYB12 and PAP1, transparent testa4 (tt4) as a flavonoid-deficient mutant, and flavonoid-deficient MYB12 or PAP1 overexpressing lines (obtained by crossing tt4 and the individual MYB overexpressor) demonstrated that flavonoid overaccumulation was key to enhanced tolerance to such stresses. Antioxidative activity assays using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl, methyl viologen, and 3,3-diaminobenzidine clearly showed that anthocyanin overaccumulation with strong in vitro antioxidative activity mitigated the accumulation of reactive oxygen species in vivo under oxidative and drought stress. These data confirm the usefulness of flavonoids for enhancing both biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in crops.
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