Journal
GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS
Volume 81, Issue 5, Pages 349-354Publisher
GENETICS SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.81.349
Keywords
alternative pathway; cold stress; reactive oxygen species; transgenic; Arabidopsis; Triticum aestivum L.
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Under low temperature conditions, the cytochrome pathway of respiration is repressed and reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced in plants. Mitochondrial alternative oxidase (AOX) is the terminal oxidase responsible for the cyanide-insensitive and salicylhydroxamic acid-sensitive respiration. To study functions of wheat AOX genes under low temperature, we produced transgenic Arabidopsis by introducing Waox1a expressed under control of the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter in Arabidopsis thaliana. The enhancement of endogenous AOX1a expression via low temperature stress was delayed in the transgenic Arabidopsis. Recovery of the total respiration activity under low temperature occurred more rapidly in the transgenic plants than in the wild-type plants due to a constitutively increased alternative pathway capacity. Levels of ROS decreased in the transgenic plants under low temperature stress. These results support the hypothesis that AOX alleviates oxidative stress when the cytochrome pathway of respiration is inhibited under abiotic stress conditions.
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