Journal
BMC PLANT BIOLOGY
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-02601-2
Keywords
Hydrogen sulphide (H2S); Iron assimilation; Iron deficiency; Organic acid; Plant hormones; Soybean (Glycine max)
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- Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [31501822]
- Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China [2015 M580876, 2016 T90948]
- Hong Kong Research Grant Council [14122415, 14160516, 14177617, AoE/M-05/12, AoE/M-403/16]
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Background Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is involved in regulating physiological processes in plants. We investigated how H2S ameliorates iron (Fe) deficiency in soybean (Glycine maxL.) seedlings. Multidisciplinary approaches including physiological, biochemical and molecular, and transcriptome methods were used to investigate the H2S role in regulating Fe availability in soybean seedlings. Results Our results showed that H2S completely prevented leaf interveinal chlorosis and caused an increase in soybean seedling biomass under Fe deficiency conditions. Moreover, H2S decreased the amount of root-bound apoplastic Fe and increased the Fe content in leaves and roots by regulating the ferric-chelate reductase (FCR) activities and Fe homeostasis- and sulphur metabolism-related gene expression levels, thereby promoting photosynthesis in soybean seedlings. In addition, H2S changed the plant hormone concentrations by modulating plant hormone-related gene expression abundances in soybean seedlings grown in Fe-deficient solution. Furthermore, organic acid biosynthesis and related genes expression also played a vital role in modulating the H2S-mediated alleviation of Fe deficiency in soybean seedlings. Conclusion Our results indicated that Fe deficiency was alleviated by H2S through enhancement of Fe acquisition and assimilation, thereby regulating plant hormones and organic acid synthesis in plants.
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