期刊
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
卷 41, 期 5, 页码 1186-1200出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12968
关键词
Oryza sativa; abiotic and biotic stress; methylglyoxal; yield
资金
- SBIRI, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science of Technology, Government of India
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
- DBT, Government of India
Crop plants face a multitude of diverse abiotic and biotic stresses in the farmers' fields. Although there now exists a considerable knowledge of the underlying mechanisms of response to individual stresses, the crosstalk between response pathways to various abiotic and biotic stresses remains enigmatic. Here, we investigated if the cytotoxic metabolite methylglyoxal (MG), excess of which is generated as a common consequence of many abiotic and biotic stresses, may serve as a key molecule linking responses to diverse stresses. For this, we generated transgenic rice plants overexpressing the entire two-step glyoxalase pathway for MG detoxification. Through assessment of various morphological, physiological and agronomic parameters, we found that glyoxalase-overexpression imparts tolerance towards abiotic stresses like salinity, drought and heat and also provides resistance towards damage caused by the sheath blight fungus (Rhizoctonia solani) toxin phenylacetic acid. We show that the mechanism of observed tolerance of the glyoxalase-overexpressing plants towards these diverse abiotic and biotic stresses involves improved MG detoxification and reduced oxidative damage leading to better protection of chloroplast and mitochondrial ultrastructure and maintained photosynthetic efficiency under stress conditions. Together, our findings indicate that MG may serve as a key link between abiotic and biotic stress response in plants. In this study, we report that restricting the accumulation of the cytotoxic molecule methylglyoxal through genetic manipulation of the two-step glyoxalase pathway improves adaptation of rice plants towards multiple abiotic and biotic stresses. We show that the enhanced stress tolerance ability of the glyoxalase-overexpressing plants is mainly due to improved methylglyoxal detoxification, reduction in oxidative damage, protection of organellar ultrastructure and maintenance of photosynthetic efficiency.
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