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PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 319, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2022.111253
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Alkali salt stress; Apoplast; Ion relations; Metabolites; Osmoregulation; Stress-responsive gene
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- Kiel University Graduate Centre
- German Research Foundation [INST 257/449-1 FUGG]
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The mechanisms by which plants respond to alkali salt stress and the role of alkaline pH in this process are still unclear. This study investigates the fast responses specific to alkaline pH and alkali salt stress in hydroponically grown Vicia faba L. plants. The findings suggest that alkaline pH and alkali salt stress induce changes in apoplastic pH, physiological responses, and gene regulation, which are important for early plant adaptation to alkali salt stress.
The mechanisms by which plants respond to alkali salt stress are still obscure, and the relevance of alkaline pH under combined alkali salt stress. Early stress responses can indicate mechanisms leading to damage and plant resistance. The apoplast contains essential determinants for plant growth, specifically early apoplastic pH fluc-tuations are induced by many stressors and hypothesized to be involved in stress signalling. Hence, this study aims to identify fast responses specific to alkaline pH and alkali salt stress by exposing the root of hydroponically grown Vicia faba L. plants to 150 min of either 50 mM NaHCO3 (pH 9) treatment or alkaline pH 9 alone. Apoplastic pH was monitored in real-time by ratiometric fluorescence microscopy simultaneously with SWIR transmission-based measurements of leaf water content (LWC). Moreover, we examined the effect of these stresses on apoplastic, symplastic and xylem ion and metabolite composition together with transcriptions of certain stress-responsive genes. Physiological and transcriptional changes were observed in response to NaHCO3 but not to alkaline pH alone. NaHCO3 elicited a transient reduction in LWC, followed by a transient alkalinization of the apoplast and stomatal closure. Simultaneously, organic acids and sugars accumulated. Fast upregulation of stress-responsive genes showed the significance of gene regulation for early plant adaptation to alkali salt stress.
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