Journal
PLANT CELL TISSUE AND ORGAN CULTURE
Volume 89, Issue 2-3, Pages 177-183Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-007-9231-6
Keywords
drought tolerance; methyl jasmonate; NTR1; soybean; water stress
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Methyl jasmonate (MeJA) is an important plant regulator that involves in plant development and regulates the expression of plant defense genes in response to various stresses such as wounding, drought, and pathogens. In order to determine the physiological role of endogenous MeJA in plants, a NTR1 from Brassica campestris encoding a jasmonic acid carboxyl methyltransferase that produces methyl jasmonate was constructed under the control of CaMV 35S promoter and transformed into soybean [Glycine max (L) Merrill]. The transgenic soybean plants constitutively expressed the NTR1 and accumulated more MeJA levels than wild type plants. Overexpression of the gene in transgenic soybean conferred tolerance to dehydration during seed germination and seedling growth as reflected by the percentage of the fresh weight of seedlings. In addition, the transgenic soybean plants also conferred better capacity to retain water than wild type plants when drought tolerance was tested using detached leaves.
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