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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 129, Issue -, Pages 11-20Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.05.019
Keywords
HMG-CoA reductase; Phospholipid sterol acyltransferase; Drought tolerance; Rice
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- Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) [IARI:BCH:09:1(3)]
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Plants respond to drought stress in the form of various physio-biochemical and molecular changes at both cellular and molecular levels. Drought stress causes the destruction of cell membranes by disintegration of membrane lipids. One of the major groups of membrane lipids that plays important role in preserving the integrity of cell membranes is phytosterols. HMG-CoA reductase (HMGR) is the principal enzyme in the biosynthesis of plant sterols, synthesized via mevalonic acid pathway. Phospholipid: sterol acyltransferase (PSAT) is another important enzyme that plays an important role in turnover of phytosterols into steryl esters and helps maintain homeostasis of membrane lipids. In this study, the expression of both HMGR and PSAT genes in drought sensitive (IR64) and drought tolerant (N22) rice cultivars under applied drought conditions were found to be elevated. The increase in expression of these genes was proportional to the level of severity of applied drought stress. This is substantiated by the negative correlation of HMGR and PSAT expression to relative water content (RWC) and membrane stability index (MSI). Expression of PSAT was also found to be positively correlated to ABA content and HMGR expression.
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