Journal
PLANT CELL REPORTS
Volume 36, Issue 8, Pages 1215-1224Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00299-017-2147-7
Keywords
Brassica napus; Anthocyanin; Antioxidant; Salt stress; DFR
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- Grant from the Korea Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [2016-116118-3]
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Flavonoids with antioxidant effects confer many additional benefits to plants. Evidence indicates that flavonoids, including anthocyanins, protect tissues against oxidative stress from various abiotic stressors. We determined whether increases in anthocyanins increased abiotic stress tolerance in Brassica napus, because the values of B. napus L. and its cultivation area are increasing worldwide. We overexpressed Arabidopsis dihydroflavonol-4-reductase (DFR) in B. napus. Increased DFR transcript levels for AtDFR-OX B. shoots correlated with higher anthocyanin accumulation. AtDFR-OX Brassica shoots exhibited lower reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation than wild-type (WT) shoots under high NaCl and mannitol concentrations. This was corroborated by 3,3-diaminobenzidine staining for ROS scavenging activity in 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl assays. Shoots of the AtDFR-OX B. napus lines grown in a high salt medium exhibited enhanced salt tolerance and higher chlorophyll content than similarly grown WT plants. Our observations suggested that the AtDFR gene can be effectively manipulated to modulate salinity and drought stress tolerance by directing to high accumulation of anthocyanins in oilseed plants.
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