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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
卷 74, 期 21, 页码 6773-6789出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erad347
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Light quality; niche partitioning; Ostreococcus; photophysiology; phytoplankton; picoeukaryote; transcriptomic analysis
This study investigates the physiological changes of phytoplankton in response to variations in light quality, and identifies different responses between two ecotypes. Different light quality environments may drive different patterns of adaptation and environmental niche partitioning.
Phytoplankton are exposed to dramatic variations in light quality when cells are carried by upwelling or downwelling currents or encounter sediment. We investigated the potential impact of light quality changes in Ostreococcus, a key marine photosynthetic picoeukaryote, by analysing changes in its transcriptome, pigment content, and photophysiology after acclimation to monochromatic red, green, or blue light. The clade B species RCC809, isolated from the deep euphotic zone of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, responded to blue light by accelerating cell division at the expense of storage reserves and by increasing the relative level of blue-light-absorbing pigments. It responded to red and green light by increasing its potential for photoprotection. In contrast, the clade A species OTTH0595, which originated from a shallow water environment, showed no difference in photosynthetic properties and minor differences in carotenoid contents between light qualities. This was associated with the loss of candidate light-quality responsive promoter motifs identified in RCC809 genes. These results demonstrate that light quality can have a major influence on the physiology of eukaryotic phytoplankton and suggest that different light quality environments can drive selection for diverse patterns of responsiveness and environmental niche partitioning. In the photosynthetic picoeukaryote Ostreococcus , distinct responses to light quality between two ecotypes are linked to different transcription factor binding sites in the promoters of light-quality responsive genes.
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