Journal
ANTIOXIDANTS
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/antiox11061114
Keywords
abiotic stress; cell cycle; glutathione metabolism; hydrogen peroxide; miRNA395; Oryza sativa; rice; salt stress
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) [20153NM8RM]
- PON Ricerca e Innovazione
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Understanding the metabolic alterations in response to stress in tolerant and sensitive plants is crucial for improving plant resilience. This study investigated the mechanisms underlying salt tolerance in two rice varieties and found that the differential regulation of cell-cycle progression and cell-death patterns at the root level is consistent with the different phenotypes observed after salt exposure. The tolerant variety showed a highly responsive antioxidative capacity and a different pattern of H2O2 accumulation compared to the sensitive variety. These findings highlight the role of ROS and antioxidative pathways in rice's response to salt stress.
Knowledge of the stress-induced metabolic alterations in tolerant and sensitive plants is pivotal for identifying interesting traits that improve plant resilience toward unfavorable environmental conditions. This represents a hot topic area of plant science, particularly for crops, due to its implication in food security. Two rice varieties showing dissimilar resistance to salt, Baldo and Vialone Nano, have been studied to investigate the mechanisms underpinning tolerance toward salinity, and these studies have focused on the root system. A detailed analysis of the salt stress-dependent modulation of the redox network is here presented. The different phenotype observed after salt exposure in the two rice varieties is coherent with a differential regulation of cell-cycle progression and cell-death patterns observed at root level. Baldo, the tolerant variety, already showed a highly responsive antioxidative capacity in control conditions. Consistently, stressed Baldo plants showed a different pattern of H2O2 accumulation compared to Vialone Nano. Moreover, glutathione metabolism was finely modulated at transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and post-translational levels in Baldo. These results contribute to highlight the role of ROS and antioxidative pathways as a part of a complex redox network activated in rice toward salt stress.
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