Integrity of xylan backbone affects plant responses to drought

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作者
Barbut, Felix R. [1 ]
Cavel, Emilie [2 ]
Donev, Evgeniy N. [1 ]
Gaboreanu, Ioana [1 ]
Urbancsok, Janos [1 ]
Pandey, Garima [1 ]
Demailly, Herve [2 ]
Jiao, Dianyi [2 ]
Yassin, Zakiya [3 ]
Derba-Maceluch, Marta [1 ]
Master, Emma R. [4 ,5 ]
Scheepers, Gerhard [3 ]
Gutierrez, Laurent [2 ]
Mellerowicz, Ewa J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Umea Plant Sci Ctr, Dept Forest Genet & Plant Physiol, Umea, Sweden
[2] Univ Picardie Jules Verne, Ctr Ressources Reg Biol Mol CRRBM, Amiens, France
[3] RISE Res Inst Sweden, Built Environm Div, Stockholm, Sweden
[4] Univ Toronto, Dept Chem Engn, Toronto, ON, Canada
[5] Univ Toronto, Appl Chem Dept, Toronto, ON, Canada
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glucuronoxylan; drought stress; Arabidopsis; Populus; secondary cell wall; hyperspectral imaging; high-throughput phenotyping; cell wall integrity; GLUCURONOXYLAN BIOSYNTHESIS; ARABIDOPSIS-THALIANA; STOMATAL APERTURE; STRESS TOLERANCE; LEAF SENESCENCE; WATER STATUS; REVEALS; DEFENSE; FAMILY; EXPRESSION;
D O I
10.3389/fpls.2024.1422701
中图分类号
Q94 [植物学];
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071001 ;
摘要
Drought is a major factor affecting crops, thus efforts are needed to increase plant resilience to this abiotic stress. The overlapping signaling pathways between drought and cell wall integrity maintenance responses create a possibility of increasing drought resistance by modifying cell walls. Here, using herbaceous and woody plant model species, Arabidopsis and hybrid aspen, respectively, we investigated how the integrity of xylan in secondary walls affects the responses of plants to drought stress. Plants, in which secondary wall xylan integrity was reduced by expressing fungal GH10 and GH11 xylanases or by affecting genes involved in xylan backbone biosynthesis, were subjected to controlled drought while their physiological responses were continuously monitored by RGB, fluorescence, and/or hyperspectral cameras. For Arabidopsis, this was supplemented with survival test after complete water withdrawal and analyses of stomatal function and stem conductivity. All Arabidopsis xylan-impaired lines showed better survival upon complete watering withdrawal, increased stomatal density and delayed growth inhibition by moderate drought, indicating increased resilience to moderate drought associated with modified xylan integrity. Subtle differences were recorded between xylan biosynthesis mutants (irx9, irx10 and irx14) and xylanase-expressing lines. irx14 was the most drought resistant genotype, and the only genotype with increased lignin content and unaltered xylem conductivity despite its irx phenotype. Rosette growth was more affected by drought in GH11- than in GH10-expressing plants. In aspen, mild downregulation of GT43B and C genes did not affect drought responses and the transgenic plants grew better than the wild-type in drought and well-watered conditions. Both GH10 and GH11 xylanases strongly inhibited stem elongation and root growth in well-watered conditions but growth was less inhibited by drought in GH11-expressing plants than in wild-type. Overall, plants with xylan integrity impairment in secondary walls were less affected than wild-type by moderately reduced water availability but their responses also varied among genotypes and species. Thus, modifying the secondary cell wall integrity can be considered as a potential strategy for developing crops better suited to withstand water scarcity, but more research is needed to address the underlying molecular causes of this variability.
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