期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
卷 145, 期 -, 页码 47-53出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.10.019
关键词
Vicia sativa; Caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase; Lignin biosynthesis; Cadmium toxicity; Phytoremediation
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31471938, 31672224]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017M611837]
- Postdoctoral Science Foundation Project of Jiangsu Province [1601048A]
Because heavy metal polluted environment potentially threatens human health, an increasing effort has been devoted to develop or improve the approaches for efficiently cleaning up heavy metals in the environment. Although phytoremediation is an emerging and eco-friendly green engineering technology for the removal of heavy metals, its remediation efficiency is limited by the low biomass production and slow growth rate of heavy metal hyper-accumulating plants. Here, through investigating the mechanisms of Vicia sativa coping with Cd toxicity, we characterized a V. sativa homologue of Caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase (VsCCoAOMT) involving in the adaption to Cd stress. Overproducing VsCCoAOMT (35S-VsCCoAOMT) confers resistance against Cd in Arabidopsis. A significant increase in biomass production, Cd uptake and translocation occurred in 35S-VsCCoAOMT Arabidopsis plants compared with wild type when grown under Cd stress. Further analysis revealed that a higher proportion of absorbed Cd was located in cell wall, which was correlated with the lignin deposition. Most surprisingly, 35S-VsCCoAOMT Arabidopsis plants grown 10 mg kg(-1) or 20 mg kg(-1) Cd were able to uptake about 2-fold amount of Cd compared with wild type. These results indicate that lignification is a protective way to sequester Cd to the cell wall, thereby alleviating Cd toxicity. Ectopic expression of VsCCoAOMT in plants is desirable for improved phytoremediation capability.
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