期刊
PLANT JOURNAL
卷 76, 期 4, 页码 648-660出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.12324
关键词
amyloplast; Arabidopsis; centrifuge microscope; gravisensing; hypergravity; starch-statolith hypothesis
资金
- TOYOBO Biotechnology Foundation
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [16085205]
- Bioarchitect Project of RIKEN
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16085205, 25440135] Funding Source: KAKEN
The starch-statolith hypothesis proposes that starch-filled amyloplasts act as statoliths in plant gravisensing, moving in response to the gravity vector and signaling its direction. However, recent studies suggest that amyloplasts show continuous, complex movements in Arabidopsis shoots, contradicting the idea of a so-called static' or settled' statolith. Here, we show that amyloplast movement underlies shoot gravisensing by using a custom-designed centrifuge microscope in combination with analysis of gravitropic mutants. The centrifuge microscope revealed that sedimentary movements of amyloplasts under hypergravity conditions are linearly correlated with gravitropic curvature in wild-type stems. We next analyzed the hypergravity response in the shoot gravitropism2 (sgr2) mutant, which exhibits neither a shoot gravitropic response nor amyloplast sedimentation at 1g. sgr2 mutants were able to sense and respond to gravity under 30g conditions, during which the amyloplasts sedimented. These findings are consistent with amyloplast redistribution resulting from gravity-driven movements triggering shoot gravisensing. To further support this idea, we examined two additional gravitropic mutants, phosphoglucomutase (pgm) and sgr9, which show abnormal amyloplast distribution and reduced gravitropism at 1g. We found that the correlation between hypergravity-induced amyloplast sedimentation and gravitropic curvature of these mutants was identical to that of wild-type plants. These observations suggest that Arabidopsis shoots have a gravisensing mechanism that linearly converts the number of amyloplasts that settle to the bottom' of the cell into gravitropic signals. Further, the restoration of the gravitropic response by hypergravity in the gravitropic mutants that we tested indicates that these lines probably have a functional gravisensing mechanism that is not triggered at 1g.
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