期刊
JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
卷 169, 期 1, 页码 98-103出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2011.07.016
关键词
Cadmium; Phytoremediation; V-PPase; Sequestration; Transgenic tobacco
资金
- Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific research and Technology
- Groupe Chimique Tunisien (GCT) Research Center of Sfax
Cadmium (Cd) is considered an extremely significant pollutant due to its high toxicity to many organisms. Plants have evolved several mechanisms to cope with Cd, the most important of which is vacuolar sequestration. Cadmium can be directly transported into vacuoles by cations/H+ exchangers, such as CAXs, which are energized by the pH gradient established by proton pumps. A cDNA (TaVP1) encoding wheat vacuolar W-pyrophosphatase (V-H-PPase) was ectopically expressed in transgenic tobacco to evaluate whether this proton pump expression would enhance Cd tolerance and accumulation in planta. When TaVP1-expressing plants were exposed to various concentrations of Cd, they were found to be more tolerant to Cd compared to wild type plants. Cadmium accumulation in the plant biomass in transgenic plants was higher than that in wild type plants. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the potential for enhancing proton pump expression as a strategy to improve Cd tolerance and accumulation in plants. (C) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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