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PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 289, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.110258
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Adaptive responses; Antioxidant defense; Cool-season crops; High temperature stress; Morpho-physicochemical traits; Thermotolerance
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- Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India [DST/INT/South Africa/P-22/2016]
- University Grant Commission (UGC), Govt. of India
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India
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High temperature stress (HTS) is one of the most crucial factors that limits plant growth and development, and reduces crop yields worldwide. Cool-season crops, particularly the legumes, are severely affected by increasing ambient temperature associated with global climate change. We characterized the HTS-induced modulations of morpho-physicochemical traits and gene expression of several chickpea genotypes and the metabolic profile of the tolerant cultivar. Higher water use efficiency and photosynthetic capacity, minimal membrane lipid peroxidation in conjunction with increased abundance of osmolytes and secondary metabolites depicted thermotolerance of ICC 1205. The adaptive responses were accompanied by high transcript abundance of heat shock proteins and antioxidant enzymes. To integrate stress-responsive signalling and metabolic networks, the HTS-induced physicochemical analysis was further extended to metabolite profiling of the thermotolerant cultivar. The screening of the metabolome landscape led to the identification of 49 HTS-responsive metabolites that include polycarboxylic acid, sugar acids, sugar alcohols and amino acids which might confer thermotolerance in chickpea. The present study, to our knowledge, is the most comprehensive of its kind in dissecting cultivar-specific differential adaptive responses to HTS in chickpea, which might potentiate the identification of genetic traits extendible to improvement of thermotolerance of crops.
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