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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 167, Issue 1, Pages 81-88Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01408.x
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adaptation; Arabidopsis thaliana; calcium homeostasis; CAX1; edaphic; magnesium homeostasis; mineral nutrition; serpentine soil
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Plant tolerance of serpentine soils is potentially an excellent model for studying the genetics of adaptive variation in natural populations. A large-scale viability screen of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants on a defined nutrient solution with a low Ca2+ : Mg2+ ratio (1 : 24 mol : mol), typical of serpentine soils, yielded survivors with null alleles of the tonoplast calcium-proton antiporter CAX1. cax1 mutants have most of the phenotypes associated with tolerance to serpentine soils, including survival in solutions with a low Ca2+ : Mg2+ ratio; requirement for a high concentration of Mg2+ for maximum growth; reduced leaf tissue concentration of Mg2+; and poor growth performance on 'normal' levels of Ca2+ and Mg2+. A physiological model is proposed to explain how loss-of-function cax1 mutations could produce all these phenotypes characteristic of plants adapted to serpentine soils, why 'normal' plants are unable to survive on serpentine soil, and why serpentine-adapted plants are unable to compete on 'normal' soils.
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