盐胁迫下植物基因的表达与基因工程研究

在各种环境胁迫中,盐胁迫是造成作物减产的严重环境因素之一。随着植物分子生物学快速发展,植物耐盐性研究已深入到耐盐相关基因的克隆,基因的结构分析以及基因表达领域。文中就与植物耐盐性密切相关的小分子渗透物质、晚期胚胎发生富集蛋白(LEA)、通道蛋白、盐胁迫相关基因、信号传导基因和转录因子研究作了综述。同时对植物耐盐性研究作了简单的展望。     

盐胁迫下植物基因的表达与基因工程研究进展

在各种环境胁迫中,盐胁迫是造成作物减产的严重环境因素之一。随着植物分子生物学快速发展,植物耐盐性研究已深入到耐盐相关基因的克隆、基因的结构分析以及基因表达领域。文中就与植物耐盐性密切相关的小分子渗透物质、晚期胚胎发生富集蛋白(LEA)、通道蛋白、盐胁迫相关基因、信号传导基因和转录因子研究作了综述。同时对植物耐盐性研究作了简单的展望。     

植物耐盐基因工程研究进展

盐害是影响植物生长和作物产量的主要因素之一。用于提高植物耐盐性的基因工程方法很多,最常见的就是在植物中过量表达抗盐相关的功能基因,包括植物信号传导蛋白基因、植物离子通道蛋白基因和合成小分子渗透剂的酶基因等。归纳了近年来植物耐盐基因工程的研究进展,并展望了植物耐盐基因工程的研究前景。     

红梨PybHLH基因过表达提高烟草NaCl抗性的研究

为探究过表达云南红梨bHLH转录因子对烟草抗盐性的影响,从红梨红色果皮中分离了bHLH转录因子基因PybHLH.亚细胞定位表明PybHLH蛋白定位于细胞核.以转基因PybHLH烟草和野生型烟草为材料,进行了NaCl胁迫对转基因PybHLH烟草生理生化影响研究及其相关酶基因的表达分析.表明PybHLH转基因烟草具有一定的耐盐性,一方面表现为随着盐胁迫时间延长,PybHLH转基因烟草中总可溶性糖、可溶性总蛋白和游离脯氨酸含量的增加,H2O2含量降低;另一方面表现为脯氨酸生物合成关键酶基因P5CS、抗氧化相关基因MnSOD、CuZn-SOD和POD、胁迫相关基因HSP和HSP cherpron和ABA抗盐信号途径基因NAC等均呈上调表达趋势.PybHLH的过表达提高了烟草的耐盐性,这将为进一步研究植物的耐盐机制及耐盐植物新品种的开发奠定基础.     

高度耐盐双价转基因烟草的研究

随着全球性人口的增长和土地退化的加剧,开发利用广阔盐碱地和干旱土地的需要日益迫切。植物生物技术的日臻完善,为培育高效耐盐植物迎来了一丝曙光。在高渗条件下,耐盐的微生物或植物细胞通过增加胞内一些相溶性溶质的浓度来维持渗透压的平衡。这些可溶性溶质包括无机离子、糖类、多元醇、氨基酸和生物碱等。通过基因工程手段,使细胞内积累脯氮酸⑴、甜菜碱⑵、甘露醇⑶、海藻糖⑷,能够不同程度地提高转基因烟草的耐盐性。多元醇含有多个羟基,亲水性能强,能有效维持细胞内水活度。山梨醇、甘露醇等己糖分子结构、理化性质和生理功能相近。故此．我们认为：不同糖醇在转基因烟草中的积累．可能具有协同(或累加)效应,有希望更大地提高植物耐盐性。我们在获得大肠杆菌mtlD基因(编码l-磷酸甘露醇脱氢酶)和gutD基因(编码6-磷酸山梨醇脱氢酶)克隆⑸的基础上,获得了分别表达mtlD和gutD基因的单价转基因烟草,并首次证实了gucD基因的表达,能显著地提高转基因烟草的耐盐性⑹。本文工作进一步报道同时表达大肠杆菌mtlD和gutD基因双价转基因烟草的高效高度耐盐性。     

盐害生理与植物抗盐性

概述了盐害对植物的伤害及植物耐盐的生理机制,并综述了植物耐盐相关基因的研究进展。同时综合相关资料,提出了提高植物耐盐性的途径。     

植物耐盐相关基因克隆与转化研究进展

土地盐渍化是农作物产量降低的一个重要因素。从盐分对植物的伤害、植物耐盐的机理、耐盐相关基因的克隆及转耐盐基因植物等方面论述了植物的耐盐机理及转耐盐基因植物的研究现状,分析了耐盐性状的复杂性,并对前景进行了展望。     

植物盐腺泌盐及发育研究进展

盐腺是泌盐盐生植物抵御盐胁迫的重要表皮结构，泌盐盐生植物可以通过盐腺将体内多余的盐离子排出体外，从而避免盐胁迫。盐腺作为泌盐盐生植物实现高效抗盐的重要结构，在逆境生理、发育和进化等领域都引起了关注和讨论，集中在盐腺的超微结构、生理功能、泌盐机制以及发育模式等不同层面已有广泛的研究报道。本文综述了盐腺结构、分泌机制、盐腺发育的研究进展，总结了盐腺泌盐的可能途径以及盐腺发育的调控方式和关键基因，对未来盐腺泌盐和发育的研究提出了相关见解，讨论了盐腺这一独特形态学结构对于植物耐盐性的作用，并对提高植物耐盐性、培育耐盐品种提出了理论依据和建议，有利于深入解析植物耐盐适应演化、培育抗盐作物和高效利用盐碱地。     

转基因技术在作物抗旱改良中的应用

以不同靶标基因为例,分不同作用机制（诸如渗透调节和清除氧自由基等）简要介绍了近10年来国内外利用转基因技术改良作物耐盐和抗旱性的研究进展,为我国北方农业的抗旱耐盐性研究提供一些思路。     

植物耐盐相关基因克隆的研究进展

随着植物分子生物学快速发展,植物耐盐性研究已深入到耐盐相关基因的克隆、基因的结构分析以及基因表达特性等领域.目前,耐盐相关基因的克隆工作进行的如火如荼,有很多植物的耐盐基因已经被克隆,这些已克隆的耐盐相关基因涉及盐胁迫信号传导、基因表达的调控因子、渗透调节物质、胚胎发育晚期丰富蛋白LEA(Late-embryogensiS-abundant)等,本文就盐胁迫涉及的信号传导基因、基因表达调控因子等的克隆研究进展作一简要概述.     

Recent Advances in Genetics of Salt Tolerance in Tomato

Salinity is an important environmental constraint to crop productivity in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Most crop plants, including tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., are sensitive to salinity throughout the ontogeny of the plant. Despite considerable research on salinity in plants, there are only a few instances where salt-tolerant cultivars have been developed. This is due in part to the complexity of the trait. A plant's response to salt stress is modulated by many physiological and agronomical characteristics, which may be controlled by the actions of several to many genes whose expressions are influenced by various environmental factors. In addition, salinity tolerance is a developmentally regulated, stage-specific phenomenon; tolerance at one stage of plant development is often not correlated with tolerance at other stages. Specific ontogenic stages should be evaluated separately for the assessment of tolerance and the identification, characterization, and utilization of useful genetic components. In tomato, genetic resources for salt tolerance have been identified largely within the related wild species, and considerable efforts have been made to characterize the genetic controls of tolerance at various developmental stages. For example, the inheritance of several tolerance-related traits has been determined and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with tolerance at individual developmental stages have been identified and characterized. It has been determined that at each stage salt tolerance is largely controlled by a few QTLs with major effects and several QTLs with smaller effects. Different QTLs have been identified at different developmental stages, suggesting the absence of genetic relationships among stages in tolerance to salinity. Furthermore, it has been determined that in addition to QTLs which are population specific, several QTLs for salt tolerance are conserved across populations and species. Research is currently underway to develop tomatoes with improved salt tolerance throughout the ontogeny of the plant by pyramiding QTLs through marker-assisted selection (MAS). Transgenic approaches also have been employed to gain a better understanding of the genetics of salt tolerance and to develop tomatoes with improved tolerance. For example, transgenic tomatoes with overexpression of a single-gene-controlled vacuolar Na⁺/H⁺ antiport protein, transferred from Arabidopsis thaliana, have exhibited a high level of salt tolerance under greenhouse conditions. Although transgenic plants are yet to be examined for field salt tolerance and salt-tolerant tomatoes are yet to be developed by MAS, the recent genetic advances suggest a good prospect for developing commercial cultivars of tomato with enhanced salt tolerance in near future.     

Developing salt tolerant plants in a new century: a molecular biology approach

Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress in plant agriculture strongly, influencing plant productivity world-wide. Classical breeding for salt tolerance in crop plants has been attempted to improve field performance without success. Therefore, an alternative strategy is to generate salt tolerant plants through genetic engineering. Several species and experimental approaches have been used in order to identify those genes that are important for salt tolerance. Due to high level of salt tolerance, halophytes are good candidates to identify salt tolerance genes. However, other species such as yeast and glycophytes have also been employed. Three approaches are commonly used to identify genes important for salt tolerance. The first approach is to identify genes involved in processes known to be critical for salt tolerance (osmolyte synthesis, ion homeostasis, etc.). The second approach is to identify genes whose expression is regulated by salt stress. This is relatively simply and applicable to any plant species. Genetic amenability of some species allows the third approach, which consists in the identification of salt tolerance determinants based on functionality. At the moment, there is a large number of reports in the literature claiming that plants with increased salt tolerance have been obtained. The main problem is that different plant species, stage of development, organs, promoters and salt conditions used it is difficult to compare the degree of salt tolerance conferred by different genes. In this review, we discuss progress made towards understanding the molecular elements involved in salt stress responses that have been used in transgenic approaches to improve salt tolerance.     

Effect of salt stress on plant gene expression: A review

Soil salinity is an important agricultural problem, particularly since the majority of crop plants have low salt tolerance. The identification of genes whose expression enables plants to adapt to or tolerate salt stress is essential for breeding programs, but little is known about the genetic mechanisms for salt tolerance. Recent research demonstrates that salt stress modulates the levels of a number of gene products. Although the detection of gene products that respons specifically to salt stress is a significant finding, they must be identified, functions assigned, and their relation to salt tolerance determined. This article focuses on a few of the salt-responsive proteins and mRNAs that have been discovered and the methods employed to identify and characterize them.     

Over-expression of Osmotin Induces Proline Accumulation and Confers Tolerance to Osmotic Stress in Transgenic Tobacco

Osmotin has been implicated in conferring tolerance to drought and salt stress in plants. We have over-expressed the osmotin gene under the control of constitutive CaMV 35S promoter in transgenic tobacco, and studied involvement of the protein in imparting tolerance to salinity and drought stress. The transgenic plants exhibited retarded leaf senescence and improved germination on a medium containing 200mM NaCl. Further, the transgenics maintained higher leaf relative water content (RWC), leaf photosynthesis and free proline content than the wild type plants during water stress and after recovery from stress. When subjected to salt stress (200mM NaCl), the transgenic plants accumulated significantly more proline than the wild type plants. These results suggest the involvement of the osmotin-induced increase in proline in imparting tolerance to salinity and drought stress in transgenic plants over-expressing the osmotin gene.     

Salt tolerance in crop plants: new approaches through tissue culture and gene regulation

Recent approaches to study of salinity tolerance in crop plants have ranged from genetic mapping to molecular characterization of gene products induced by salt/drought stress. Transgenic plant design has allowed to test the effects of overexpression of specific prokaryotic or plant genes that are known to be up-regulated by salt/drought stress. This review summarizes current progress in the field in the context of adaptive metabolic and physiological responses to salt stress and their potential role in long term tolerance. Specifically considered are gene activation by salt, in view of proposed avenues for improved salt tolerance and the need to ascertain the additional influences of developmental regulation of such genes. Discussion includes the alternate genetic strategy we have pursued for improving salinity tolerance in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and rice (Oryza sativa L.). This strategy combines single-step selection of salt-tolerant cells in culture, followed by regeneration of salt-tolerant plants and identification of genes important in conferring salt tolerance. We have postulated that activation or improved expression of a subset of genes encoding functions that are particularly vulnerable under conditions of salt-stress could counteract the molecular effects of such stress and could provide incremental improvements in tolerance. We have proceeded to identify the acquired specific changes in gene regulation for our salt-tolerant mutant cells and plants. One particularly interesting and novel gene isolate from the salt-tolerant cells is Alfin1, which encodes a putative zinc-finger regulatory protein, expressed predominantly in roots. We have demonstrated that this protein binds DNA in a sequence specific manner and may be potentially important in gene regulation in roots in response to salt and an important marker for salt tolerance in crop plants.     

Recent developments in understanding salinity tolerance

Salt stress imposes a major environmental threat to agriculture and its adverse impacts are getting more serious problem in regions where saline water is used for irrigation. Therefore, the efforts to increase salt tolerance of crop plants bear remarkable importance to supply sustainable agriculture on marginal lands and could potentially improve crop yield overall. Acclimation of plants to salinized conditions depend upon activation of cascades of molecular networks involved in stress sensing, signal transduction and the expression of specific stress-related genes and metabolites. Adaptational processes are elaborate and more than one gene might be expressed during the acclimation process. Isolation of Salt Overly Sensitive (SOS) genes by sos mutants shed us light on the relationship between ion homeostasis and salinity tolerance. The essential role of antioxidative system to maintain a balance between the overproduction of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and their scavenging to keep them at signaling level for reinstating metabolic homeostasis has already been established. Compatible osmolytes synthesized to maintain equal water potential with the environment under salinity conditions implements another strategy to develop resistance against salinity. With the growing body of information about molecular markers, genomics and post-genomics and thus increasing understanding of signaling pathways and mechanisms that contributes to plant stress responses, significant breakthroughs have been emerged to figure out the mechanism and control of salinity tolerance at molecular level. Many transgenic works were carried out to produce transgenic plants to develop enhanced tolerance to salt stress. However, a few of them seem succeeded to be implemented in salt-affected marginal lands efficiently. This minireview focuses on the recent developments in salinity tolerance research aiming to contribute sustainable food production under salt stress in the face of a globally warming ecosystem.