拟南芥盐胁迫应答相关基因AtGRP9的克隆及表达

利用拟南芥cDNA文库在裂殖酵母中的功能性表达 ,从拟南芥中分离了一个编码富甘氨酸蛋白 (glycine richprotein ,GRP)的cDNA克隆 (其基因被命名为AtGRP9)。在裂殖酵母中大量表达AtGRP9cDNA能显著提高细胞的耐盐性。在拟南芥中 ,AtGRP9基因的表达受盐胁迫诱导 ,其表达具有根器官特异性 ;而且 35S启动子组成形成超量表达植株的耐盐性明显提高。这些实验结果表明拟南芥AtGRP9可能是一盐胁迫应答相关基因。     

转拟南芥ICE1基因增强烟草抗寒性的研究

ICE1是CBF冷响应通道的上游转录调控因子,通过与CBF启动子中MYC顺式作用元件的结合激活CBF3基因表达.采用RT-PCR方法,从拟南芥获得AtICE1基因,将AtICE1导入pCAMBIA1301构建35S:AtICE1植物表达载体.通过根癌农杆菌GV3101,将AtICE1基因导人烟草,T1代植株经潮霉素抗性筛选,PCR、RT-PCR检测,结果表明AtICE1基因已经整合到烟草基因组中,并在转录水平表达;在正常生长条件下,转基因烟草与对照烟草的生长未见明显区别,而在瞬时低温冻害下,转基因烟草存活率明显高于对照烟草植株,说明Atl-CEI基因可以提高低温敏感作物的耐寒性.     

Chitinase Gene Expression in Response to Environmental Stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana: Chitinase Inhibitor Allosamidin Enhances Stress Tolerance

The expression levels of three chitinase genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, AtChiA (class III), AtChiB (class I), and AtChiV (class IV), were examined under various stress conditions by semi-quantitative RT-PCR. Under normal growth conditions, the AtChiB and AtChiV genes were expressed in most organs of Arabidopsis plants at all growth stages, whereas the AtChiA gene was not expressed at all. The class III AtChiA gene was expressed exclusively when the plants were exposed to environmental stresses, especially to salt and wound stresses. Treatment of Arabidopsis plants with allosamidin, which inhibits class III chitinases, did not affect the growth rate. Surprisingly, however, the plants treated with allosamidin were more tolerant of abiotic stresses (cold, freezing, heat, and strong light) than the control plants. It also appeared that allosamidin enhances AtChiA and AtChiB expression under heat and strong light stresses. Allosamidin is likely to enhance abiotic stress tolerance, probably through crosstalk between the two signaling pathways for biotic and abiotic stress responses.     

刚毛柽柳ThDREB基因在酵母中的表达及抗逆能力分析

DREB蛋白能特异地与DRE（dehydration responsive element）顺式作用元件结合,从而调控下游多个与逆境相关基因的表达,在植物对多种逆境胁迫的应答反应中起重要调节作用。为了研究刚毛柽柳ThDREB基因是否具有抗逆功能,将ThDREB基因插入到酵母表达载体pYES2中构建成重组载体,转入酿酒酵母（Saccharomyces cerevisiae）中获得重组型酵母。分别比较转ThDREB基因酵母和转空载体对照酵母在山梨醇、H₂O₂、CdCl₂、NaCl、Na₂CO₃、MgCl₂、-20℃胁迫处理之后的存活能力。结果显示,ThDREB基因能有效提高转基因酵母的抗干旱、盐、碱、氧化、重金属及低温胁迫的能力,表明ThDREB基因可能参与了柽柳多种抗逆调控过程。     

Expression of the Kale WRKY Gene BoWRKY10 in Transgenic Tobacco Confers Drought Stress Tolerance

Russian Journal of Plant Physiology - WRKYs play important roles in plant growth, defense regulation, and the stress response. However, the mechanisms through which WRKYs are involved in drought...     

Coping with Commitment: Projected Thermal Stress on Coral Reefs under Different Future Scenarios

Background

Periods of anomalously warm ocean temperatures can lead to mass coral bleaching. Past studies have concluded that anthropogenic climate change may rapidly increase the frequency of these thermal stress events, leading to declines in coral cover, shifts in the composition of corals and other reef-dwelling organisms, and stress on the human populations who depend on coral reef ecosystems for food, income and shoreline protection. The ability of greenhouse gas mitigation to alter the near-term forecast for coral reefs is limited by the time lag between greenhouse gas emissions and the physical climate response.

Methodology/Principal Findings

This study uses observed sea surface temperatures and the results of global climate model forced with five different future emissions scenarios to evaluate the “committed warming” for coral reefs worldwide. The results show that the physical warming commitment from current accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could cause over half of the world''s coral reefs to experience harmfully frequent (p≥0.2 year⁻¹) thermal stress by 2080. An additional “societal” warming commitment, caused by the time required to shift from a business-as-usual emissions trajectory to a 550 ppm CO₂ stabilization trajectory, may cause over 80% of the world''s coral reefs to experience harmfully frequent events by 2030. Thermal adaptation of 1.5°C would delay the thermal stress forecast by 50–80 years.

Conclusions/Significance

The results suggest that adaptation – via biological mechanisms, coral community shifts and/or management interventions – could provide time to change the trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions and possibly avoid the recurrence of harmfully frequent events at the majority (97%) of the world''s coral reefs this century. Without any thermal adaptation, atmospheric CO₂ concentrations may need to be stabilized below current levels to avoid the degradation of coral reef ecosystems from frequent thermal stress events.     

异源表达CkLEA1基因增强了拟南芥对非生物胁迫的耐受性

植物在生长过程中会受到各种非生物胁迫的伤害,导致生长发育和产量受到严重影响,胚胎晚期丰富蛋白（late embryogenesis abundant proteins,LEA蛋白）在植物抵抗非生物胁迫过程中起着重要的保护作用。在前期的研究基础上,将受多种胁迫诱导的柠条锦鸡儿CkLEA1（GenBank登录号KC309408）基因转入野生型拟南芥,通过实时荧光定量PCR从7株T₃代纯合体中筛选出3个转基因株系做进一步研究。种子萌发率实验发现,在200 mmol/L NaCl和400 mmol/L甘露醇处理下,转基因株系萌发率均高于野生型拟南芥。干旱处理2周大的幼苗后,转基因株系明显比野生型更抗旱,存活率高于野生型,并且失水率低于野生型。同时,转基因株系积累了较少的丙二醛（MDA）,超氧化物歧化酶（SOD）活性和谷胱甘肽（GSH）含量也高于野生型。这些结果表明,柠条锦鸡儿CkLEA1基因在种子萌发阶段提高了拟南芥对盐和渗透胁迫的耐受性,并且提高了转基因拟南芥幼苗生长阶段对干旱胁迫的抵抗能力。     

过量表达棉花GaSus3基因增强拟南芥的耐盐性

构建了植物过量表达载体p35S：：GaSus3,通过花序浸染法成功获得转GaSus3基因拟南芥植株。利用NaCl模拟盐胁迫处理,证实转基因拟南芥与野生型相比耐盐性明显增强。在盐胁迫下,转基因拟南芥受到的影响较小,而野生型则受盐害影响严重：转基因拟南芥具有更好的萌发率和主根长度,以保证植株正常生长;盐胁迫下转基因拟南芥能保持较多的绿色叶片,而野生型则过早黄化死亡。研究还发现,转基因拟南芥的过氧化氢酶活性在胁迫前后都高于野生型,这说明转GaSus3基因能够提高拟南芥抗氧化胁迫的能力。研究结果为进一步探讨GaSus3基因在棉花耐盐方面的功能奠定了基础。     

Gene Networks in Plant Ozone Stress Response and Tolerance

For many plant species ozone stress has become much more severe in the last decade. The accumulating evidence for the significant effects of ozone pollutant on crop and forest yield situate ozone as one of the most important environmental stress factors that limits plant productivity woddwide. Today, transcdptomic approaches seem to give the best coverage of genome level responses. Therefore, microarray serves as an invaluable tool for global gene expression analyses, unravelling new information about gene pathways, in-species and crose-species gene expression comparison, and for the characterization of unknown relationships between genes. In this review we summadze the recent progress in the transcdptomics of ozone to demonstrate the benefits that can be harvested from the application of integrative and systematic analytical approaches to study ozone stress response. We focused our consideration on microarray analyses identifying gene networks responsible for response and tolerance to elevated ozone concentration. From these analyses it is now possible to notice how plant ozone defense responses depend on the interplay between many complex signaling pathways and metabolite signals.     

Gene Networks in Plant Ozone Stress Response and Tolerance

For many plant species ozone stress has become much more severe in the last decade. The accumulating evidence for the significant effects of ozone pollutant on crop and forest yield situate ozone as one of the most important environmental stress factors that limits plant productivity woddwide. Today, transcdptomic approaches seem to give the best coverage of genome level responses. Therefore, microarray serves as an invaluable tool for global gene expression analyses, unravelling new information about gene pathways, in-species and crose-species gene expression comparison, and for the characterization of unknown relationships between genes. In this review we summadze the recent progress in the transcdptomics of ozone to demonstrate the benefits that can be harvested from the application of integrative and systematic analytical approaches to study ozone stress response. We focused our consideration on microarray analyses identifying gene networks responsible for response and tolerance to elevated ozone concentration. From these analyses it is now possible to notice how plant ozone defense responses depend on the interplay between many complex signaling pathways and metabolite signals.     

Patterns of Gene Expression in a Scleractinian Coral Undergoing Natural Bleaching

Coral bleaching is a major threat to coral reefs worldwide and is predicted to intensify with increasing global temperature. This study represents the first investigation of gene expression in an Indo-Pacific coral species undergoing natural bleaching which involved the loss of algal symbionts. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction experiments were conducted to select and evaluate coral internal control genes (ICGs), and to investigate selected coral genes of interest (GOIs) for changes in gene expression in nine colonies of the scleractinian coral Acropora millepora undergoing bleaching at Magnetic Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Among the six ICGs tested, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase and the ribosomal protein genes S7 and L9 exhibited the most constant expression levels between samples from healthy-looking colonies and samples from the same colonies when severely bleached a year later. These ICGs were therefore utilised for normalisation of expression data for seven selected GOIs. Of the seven GOIs, homologues of catalase, C-type lectin and chromoprotein genes were significantly up-regulated as a result of bleaching by factors of 1.81, 1.46 and 1.61 (linear mixed models analysis of variance, P < 0.05), respectively. We present these genes as potential coral bleaching response genes. In contrast, three genes, including one putative ICG, showed highly variable levels of expression between coral colonies. Potential variation in microhabitat, gene function unrelated to the stress response and individualised stress responses may influence such differences between colonies and need to be better understood when designing and interpreting future studies of gene expression in natural coral populations.     

过表达单脱氢抗坏血酸还原酶基因提高番茄抗UV-B胁迫能力

以野生型（WT）和转正义叶绿体单脱氢抗坏血酸还原酶基因（LeMDAR）番茄为试材,探讨了UV-B胁迫下过表达LeMDAR对番茄抗氧化能力的影响。测定了不同时间uV-B处理下番茄抗坏血酸（AsA）含量,脱氢抗坏血酸（DHA）含量,单脱氢抗坏血酸还原酶（MDAR）活性,光合速率和叶绿素荧光参数等。在UV-B处理下,转基因番茄植株的AsA含量、MDAR酶及抗坏血酸过氧化物酶（APx）活性、H：0：和超氧阴离子清除速率、净光合速率（只）高于野生型番茄。此外,紫外胁迫下,转基因株系丙二醛（MDA）含量和相对电导率（REC）较野生型增加的少。上述结果表明,MDAR对抗抗坏血酸再生具有重要作用,过表达LeMDAR提高了番茄植株抗氧化能力,对光合机构有保护作用。     

小黑杨花药培养植株转化胆碱氧化酶基因提高耐盐性

以小黑杨（Populus simonii×p．nigra）花药培养植株无菌苗叶片为外植体,通过根癌农杆菌（Agrobacterium tumefaciens）介导法将胆碱氧化酶基因（codA）导入小黑杨中,共获得4株转化株系,PCR扩增和Southern杂交检测结果全部呈阳性,表明codA基因已整合到小黑杨花药培养植株基因组中。荧光定量RT-PCR检测证明,codA基因在小黑杨花药培养植株中获得表达。耐盐实验结果显示,各转基因株系在0．6％的NaCl浓度下能够生长,而非转基因对照小黑杨受盐害严重,说明codA基因的导入提高了转基因植株的耐盐性。     

Abiotic Stress Tolerance： From Gene Discovery in Model Organisms to Crop Improvement

Productive and sustainable agriculture necessitates growing plants in sub-optimal environments with less input of precious resources such as fresh water. For a better understanding and rapid improvement of abiotic stress tolerance, it is important to link physiological and biochemical work to molecular studies in genetically tractable model organisms. With the use of several technologies for the discovery of stress tolerance genes and their appropriate alleles, transgenic approaches to improving stress tolerance in crops remarkably parallels breeding principles with a greatly expanded germplasm base and will succeed eventually.