Abstract

Hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) causes metabolic disturbances at physiological, biochemical and genetic levels and results in decreased plant growth and development. Phospholipase D (PLD)-mediated signaling was reported for abiotic and biotic stress signaling events in plants. To investigate the participatory role of PLDs also in hypoxia signaling, we used wild type of Arabidopsis thaliana and 10 pld isoform mutants containing C2-domain. Hypoxia-induced changes in three major signaling players, namely, cytosolic free calcium (Ca-cyt(2+)), reactive oxygen species (ROS) and phosphatidic acid (PA), were determined in mesophyll protoplasts. The Ca-cyt(2+) and ROS levels were monitored by fluorescence microscopy and confocal imaging, while PA levels were quantified by an enzymatic method. Our findings reveal that the elevations of cytosolic calcium and PA are reduced in all the 10 mutants dysfunctional in PLD isoforms. The hypoxia-related changes in both calcium and ROS show different kinetic patterns depending on the type of PLD studied. Pharmacological experiments confirm that both external and internal sources contribute to calcium and ROS accumulation under hypoxia. PLD alpha 1-3, PLD beta 1 and PLD gamma 1-3 are likely involved in calcium signaling under hypoxia as well as in PA production, while all investigated PLDs, except for PLD gamma 3, take part in ROS elevation.

Published in

Physiologia Plantarum
2019, Volume: 167, number: 1, pages: 90-110
Publisher: WILEY

SLU Authors

• Lager, Ida

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Botany


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.12874

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/101273