DREBs响应植物非生物逆境胁迫研究进展

寒冷、干旱和高盐等非生物胁迫作为常见的不利环境条件,严重影响全球植物生长和生产力。干旱应答元件结合蛋白（dehydration responsive element binding protein, DREB）是植物重要转录因子之一,其家族成员均含有一个57-70个氨基酸残基的保守AP2结构域。DREB通过与胁迫诱导基因启动子区中的脱水反应元件/C-重复（dehydration responsive element/C-repeat, DRE/CRT）顺式作用元件相互作用,调节下游各种应激基因的表达,赋予植物应激耐受性。本文从DREB家族结构特点和分类出发,结合最新研究进展,阐述其在非生物胁迫过程中的作用机制,旨在更加深入地了解DERB类转录因子在非生物胁迫响应过程中的分子调控网络,以期为未来利用基因工程手段提高植物抗逆性方面提供参考。     

植物角质层对非生物逆境胁迫响应研究进展

角质层,包括角质和蜡质,是主要由脂肪酸及其衍生物构成的覆盖在植物的外表面的高度疏水层,在植物生长发育过程中起到非常重要的保护屏障作用。除了在极端温度、干旱、高盐等多种非生物逆境胁迫下起到保护作用外,还能够保护植物内部组织免受细菌、真菌病原体的侵染。现就植物角质层的组成、合成途径以及与植物抗逆性,特别是与抗旱能力的关系方面的最新研究进展进行了综述。     

土壤中非生物逆境胁迫与根系有机酸分泌

由于土壤特性及所处的生态条件等原因 ,植物常会遭受各种逆境胁迫。逆境胁迫包括病、虫等生物因素和物理、化学等非生物因素。植物非生物逆境多与土壤化学因素如 p H、盐分和养分的有效性有关 ,许多植物营养问题都起源于土壤矿质元素胁迫。逆境胁迫下 ,植物通过生理上的一系列改变 ,增加根系分泌物的释放 ,从而直接或间接影响土壤养分的有效性 [1 ] 。根系分泌物是一古老而年轻的研究领域。早在 1 8世纪 ,人们就已注意到根系分泌物的作用。自 1 90 4年 Hiltner提出根际的概念后 ,植物根系分泌物受到了许多研究者的重视。尤其是近 3 0年以来…     

两种植物生长调节剂浸种对大豆根系解剖结构的影响

在砂培框栽条件下,研究植物生长调节剂2-N,N-二乙胺基乙基己酸酯（DTA-6）和烯效唑（S3307）浸种对大豆‘垦农4号’根系生长的调控效应,并比较不同浓度条件下2种植物生长调节剂对大豆根系的显微结构及超微结构的影响。结果表明,50mg·L-1DTA-6和0.4mg·L-1S3307浸种后中柱鞘直径、根系木质部及韧皮部截面积均增加,线粒体及淀粉质体等结构清晰,线粒体、淀粉质体、质体数量丰富;而其他浸种处理对根细胞发育的上述指标的调控效果不显著。综合分析表明,50mg·L-1DTA-6和0.4mg·L-1S3307浸种有利于大豆根系的生长发育。     

光强对木麻黄幼苗根系形态、解剖结构及其碳氮含量的影响

对光环境的灵敏响应使得森林中常见的光照异质性成为影响植物自我更新的关键因素,然而植物地下根系结构对光照的响应较为难测而缺乏深入研究。为探究不同光强下木麻黄根系响应策略,以一年生木麻黄(Casuarina equisetifolia)幼苗为试验材料,模拟森林幼苗生长的林外(CK)、林缘(L1)、林窗(L2)和林下光环境(L3)设置4种光照强度,测定及分析木麻黄幼苗的生长、根系形态、细根解剖结构及碳氮含量等指标。结果表明：(1)L1下,幼苗采取维持高度,降低横向生长的方式,保证正常累积生物量,随光照强度的下降,株高、地径、叶片生物量及地上部分生物量逐渐下降。(2)在根系表型上,幼苗随光限制的加重呈现抑制纵伸但促进根系的横向生长,其中总根长、根平均直径及根体积达到显著差异。在径级结构上,细根发育程度随光照减弱而下降;而适当的遮光(L1)促进粗根生长但L3时除根尖数较CK上升外,根长度、根表面积、根体积均显著下降。(3)1—3级细根解剖变化较大,相较CK,1级细根皮层细胞面积显著增加,但根半径、维管柱结构、表皮厚度等指标则显著下降,2级细根根半径、皮层细胞面积、表皮厚度明显减少,但维管柱结构仅在L2、L3时显著下降;3级细根根半径、皮层细胞面积和维管柱面积均较CK显著增大,L1时维管柱结构下降,但随光照减弱加重,维管柱面积和中柱占比均明显增加。(4)在碳氮含量上,CK与L1无显著差异,TC在L2时显著下降,TN则在L2时显著上升,TC、TN均在L3达到最大,而C:N随光强降低逐渐下降。综上所述,光限制时,木麻黄生物量及碳分配稳定根茎部分生长,采取“弱化吸收,强化储存”收缩型生长策略;当限制加重时,光合和呼吸作用失衡导致植物对细根投入养分的浪费,并最终造成林木死亡。研究结果为林下植被的更新提供理论参考。     

植物小分子信号肽参与非生物逆境胁迫应答的研究进展

植物小分子信号肽（small signaling peptides, SSPs）是一类蛋白长度小于120个氨基酸的小肽,作为新型信号分子在植物应答非生物逆境胁迫中发挥重要的作用。植物中含有千余种SSPs,多种多样的结构特点、修饰过程与不同受体的结合发挥其特异的功能,参与植物与环境之间的互作。挖掘鉴定植物SSPs功能基因,解析它们应答非生物逆境胁迫的调控机制,对增强植物抗性、改善植物生长具有重要的理论与实践意义。植物SSPs主要包括胞外非分泌型小肽、胞内非分泌型小肽、胞外翻译后修饰分泌型小肽和胞外富含半胱氨酸分泌型小肽四大类。介绍了四类植物SSPs的结构、特征;阐述了它们以SSP配体结合LRR-RLK受体激酶完成信号转导过程,以激活下游抗性基因表达为模式的调控机制;重点综述了它们在干旱、高温、盐渍、营养等非生物逆境胁迫应答中的生物学功能及调控机制。最后讨论了植物SSPs未来研究的方向和有待解决的问题,还对SSPs类生长调节剂的开发前景进行了展望,旨在为提高植物应对环境胁迫和实现农业可持续发展提供新的思路和路径。     

植物逆境胁迫相关蛋白激酶的研究进展

干旱、高盐、高温和低温等非生物胁迫及各种病虫害等生物胁迫严重影响植物的生长发育和作物产量.蛋白激酶主要通过激活不同的磷酸化途径介导外界环境信号的感知和传递,调控下游抗逆基因的转录表达,启动相应的生理生化等适应性反应来降低或消除危害.该文对近年来国内外有关与非生物胁迫和生物胁迫信号传导相关的受体蛋白激酶、促分裂原活化蛋白激酶、钙依赖而钙调素不依赖的蛋白激酶、蔗糖不发酵相关蛋白激酶和其它胁迫相关的植物蛋白激酶的研究进展进行综述,探索蛋白激酶介导的不同磷酸化途径应对逆境胁迫的信号传递网络,为进一步了解植物逆境分子应答机制提供依据.     

植物对非生物逆境响应的转录调控和代谢谱分析的研究进展

非生物逆境严重影响植物的生长发育,植物响应非生物逆境是通过复杂的转录调控网络和代谢网络实现的。植物转录组学和代谢组学的技术方法有助于研究植物对非生物逆境的应答机制。本文对植物非生物逆境响应中的转录调控和代谢谱分析的研究进展进行了综述。     

紫穗槐幼苗根系生理特性和解剖结构对PEG-6000模拟干旱的响应

采用PEG-6000模拟干旱胁迫处理,测定了紫穗槐幼苗根系的可溶性糖、可溶性蛋白质、丙二醛、游离脯氨酸含量及SOD、POD酶活性变化以及解剖结构特征,旨在比较不同干旱程度对紫穗槐幼苗根系生理指标、内部解剖结构的影响,探索紫穗槐幼苗对水分胁迫的适应能力,揭示紫穗槐幼苗根系对土壤水分胁迫的响应和调控机制。结果表明:丙二醛含量变化显示当PEG-6000溶液浓度超过50g/L以后,紫穗槐幼苗根的膜系统开始受到损伤,并在PEG-6000溶液浓度达到250g/L受损程度显著增强,达到了对照的1.6倍,同时启动渗透调节作用(游离脯氨酸含量显著增加),达到了对照的3.8倍,在PEG-6000溶液浓度低于200g/L时,紫穗槐幼苗根系中至少没有启动以游离脯氨酸为主的渗透调节过程。可溶性糖和可溶性蛋白质含量及SOD、POD酶活性的变化印证了胞内发生的生理代谢变化,在PEG-6000溶液浓度为200g/L时,可溶性糖含量仅为0.121mg/g,达到最低点,随后上升,当PEG-6000溶液浓度进一步增加到250g/L时,紫穗槐幼苗根系中的可溶性糖含量则迅速回升到0.64mg/g,为对照组的63.37%。可溶性蛋白质含量在低浓度PEG-6000溶液(50g/L)处理下即有明显反应,下降到对照的61.5%,随后呈波动性变化。SOD和POD活性对PEG-6000模拟干旱胁迫的响应规律类似,均对PEG-6000模拟干旱胁迫处理迅速响应且活性增加。当PEG-6000溶液浓度达到50g/L至100g/L时,抗氧化酶的合成量最高,而后活性下降。60d的PEG-6000模拟干旱胁迫处理影响了紫穗槐幼苗根系的生长发育,随着PEG-6000溶液浓度增加,维管柱的直径变大,木质部厚度增大,导管直径变小、但导管密度增加,当PEG-6000溶液浓度达到250g/L时,导管密度比对照组增加了41.3%,木质部厚度比对照组增加了91.5%。以上结果表明,PEG-6000模拟干旱胁迫处理下,不同胁迫程度紫穗槐内部生理和根系解剖结构变化不同,通过改变自身生理代谢和根系内部解剖结构,以适应土壤水分胁迫的逆境条件,来满足自身生长和发育的需求平衡。     

植物microRNA与逆境响应研究进展

MieroRNA(miRNA)是一类在生物体内普遍存在的非编码、长度约16～29 nt的小分子RNA,由内源基因编码,于转录后水平通过介导靶mRNA降解或翻译抑制调控基因表达,是真核细胞基因表达的重要调控因子.随着生物信息学与研究技术的发展,越来越多的植物miRNA得到预测和验证.逆境胁迫下,植物体诱导或下调相关miRNA表达,参与植物逆境生理调节与适应.文章综述了植物miRNA生物合成、与靶基因的作用方式,生物功能以及逆境胁迫响应miRNA,概要介绍了目前常用的miRNA研究方法.     

Use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria to control stress responses of plant roots

Ethylene is a key gaseous hormone that controls various physiological processes in plants including growth, senescence, fruit ripening, and responses to abiotic and biotic stresses. In spite of some of these positive effects, the gas usually inhibits plant growth. While chemical fertilizers help plants grow better by providing soil-limited nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphate, over-usage often results in growth inhibition by soil contamination and subsequent stress responses in plants. Therefore, controlling ethylene production in plants becomes one of the attractive challenges to increase crop yields. Some soil bacteria among plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs) can stimulate plant growth even under stressful conditions by reducing ethylene levels in plants, hence the term “stress controllers” for these bacteria. Thus, manipulation of relevant genes or gene products might not only help clear polluted soil of contaminants but contribute to elevating the crop productivity. In this article, the beneficial soil bacteria and the mechanisms of reduced ethylene production in plants by stress controllers are discussed.     

Lipid signalling in plant responses to abiotic stress

Lipids are one of the major components of biological membranes including the plasma membrane, which is the interface between the cell and the environment. It has become clear that membrane lipids also serve as substrates for the generation of numerous signalling lipids such as phosphatidic acid, phosphoinositides, sphingolipids, lysophospholipids, oxylipins, N‐acylethanolamines, free fatty acids and others. The enzymatic production and metabolism of these signalling molecules are tightly regulated and can rapidly be activated upon abiotic stress signals. Abiotic stress like water deficit and temperature stress triggers lipid‐dependent signalling cascades, which control the expression of gene clusters and activate plant adaptation processes. Signalling lipids are able to recruit protein targets transiently to the membrane and thus affect conformation and activity of intracellular proteins and metabolites. In plants, knowledge is still scarce of lipid signalling targets and their physiological consequences. This review focuses on the generation of signalling lipids and their involvement in response to abiotic stress. We describe lipid‐binding proteins in the context of changing environmental conditions and compare different approaches to determine lipid–protein interactions, crucial for deciphering the signalling cascades.     

Antioxidant responses of shoots and roots of lentil to NaCl-salinity stress

The effect of salt stress (100 mM and 200 mM NaCl) on antioxidant responses in shoots and roots of 14-day-old lentil (Lens culinaris M.) seedlings was investigated. Salt stress caused a significant decrease in length, wet-dry weight and an increase in proline content of both shoot and root tissues. In leaf tissues, high salinity treatment resulted in a 4.4 fold increase in H₂O₂ content which was accompanied by a significant level of lipid peroxidation and an increase in electrolyte leakage. Root tissues were less affected with respect to these parameters. Leaf tissue extracts exhibited four activity bands, of which two were identified as Cu/Zn-SOD and others as Fe-SOD and Mn-SOD. Fe-SOD activity was missing in root extracts. In both tissues Cu/Zn-SOD activity comprised 70–75% of total SOD activity. Salt stress did not cause a significant increase in total SOD activity of leaf tissues but a significant enhancement (88%) was observed in roots mainly due to an enhancement in Cu/ZnSOD isoforms. Compared to leaf tissues a significantly higher constitutive ascorbate peroxidase (APX) and glutathion reductase (GR) activity was observed in root tissues. Upon salt stress no significant change in the activity of APX, catalase (CAT) and GR was observed in root tissues but a higher APX activity was present when compared to leaf tissues. On the other hand, in leaf tissues, with the exception of CAT, salt stress caused significant enhancement in the activity of other antioxidant enzymes. These results suggested that, root tissues of lentil are protected better from NaCl stress induced oxidative damage due to enhanced total SOD activity together with a higher level of APX activity under salinity stress. To our knowledge this is the first report describing antioxidant enzyme activities in lentil.     

UVB irradiation-induced impairment of keratinocytes and adaptive responses to oxidative stress

UVB irradiation of human skin is known to induce pathophysiological processes as oxidative stress and inflammation. HaCaT keratinocytes represent a well-established in vitro model system to investigate the influence of UVB irradiation on cell cultures. It was the aim of these investigations to study the effects of moderate UVB doses on cellular and mitochondrial integrity of HaCaT keratinocytes, biomarkers of oxidative stress and antioxidant protection by superoxide dismutases. F₂-isoprostane concentrations were UVB dose-dependently enhanced reaching a plateau at 50 mJ/cm². Cell viability was reduced and apoptosis was enhanced with increasing UVB doses. The activities of the respiratory chain complexes were practically not altered at lower UVB doses, up to 50 mJ/cm², whereas remarkable decreases, also for the levels of cardiolipin species, were seen at 100 mJ/cm². As an adaptive response to the enhanced oxidative stress, protein levels of MnSOD increased about 3-fold at 50 mJ/cm² and decreased at higher doses. From the data it can be concluded that keratinocytes are sufficiently protected at low UVB doses, whereas higher doses lead to irreversible cell damage.