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PLOS ONE
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030355
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30872044, 30800880, 3100012, 31000288, 31171169, 31101154]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2010CB126600]
- National mega project of GMO crops [2008ZX08001-003, 2008ZX08004-002, 2008ZX08010-004]
- Shanghai Science & Technology Development Fund [0853Z111C1, 08DZ2270800]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JC2011-2, BLYJ200903]
- Foundation for the Supervisors of Excellent Doctoral Dissertations of Beijing [YB20081002201]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [6112017]
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Fatty acid desaturases play important role in plant responses to abiotic stresses. However, their exact function in plant resistance to salt stress is unknown. In this work, we provide the evidence that FAD2, an endoplasmic reticulum localized omega-desaturase, is required for salt tolerance in Arabidopsis. Using vacuolar and plasma membrane vesicles prepared from the leaves of wild-type (Col-0) and the loss-of-function Arabidopsis mutant, fad2, which lacks the functional FAD2, we examined the fatty acid composition and Na+-dependent H+ movements of the isolated vesicles. We observed that, when compared to Col-0, the level of vacuolar and plasma membrane polyunsaturation was lower, and the Na+/H+ exchange activity was reduced in vacuolar and plasma membrane vesicles isolated from fad2 mutant. Consistent with the reduced Na+/H+ exchange activity, fad2 accumulated more Na+ in the cytoplasm of root cells, and was more sensitive to salt stress during seed germination and early seedling growth, as indicated by CoroNa-Green staining, net NaNa+ efflux and salt tolerance analyses. Our results suggest that FAD2 mediated high-level vacuolar and plasma membrane fatty acid desaturation is essential for the proper function of membrane attached Na+/H+ exchangers, and thereby to maintain a low cytosolic NaNa+ concentration for salt tolerance during seed germination and early seedling growth in Arabidopsis.
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