植物MYB转录因子与非生物胁迫响应研究

MYB转录因子家族是植物中最大的转录因子家族之一,在植物体内的多种生理生化反应中起着关键性作用,其中一项重要功能就是对非生物逆境的应答。这类转录因子通过调控生长发育,影响代谢产物的合成和影响激素信号等多方面参与非生物逆境的应答。介绍了MYB转录因子的结构特点和分类上的新发现,并综述了近几年MYB转录因子家族在植物响应干旱、高温、低温和高盐等非生物胁迫方面的研究进展。     

代谢组学在植物逆境生物学中的研究进展

近年随着持续而又复杂环境的改变,自然界中生物和非生物胁迫频繁爆发,多种逆境胁迫严重影响了植物的正常生长和发育,尤其是农作物产量.逆境胁迫下植物体内代谢物的重塑是其基因与环境因素共同作用的结果,是植物体生理表型与体内生化水平的直接体现,逆境胁迫下代谢组的重塑很大程度上反映了植物体对逆境胁迫的响应和防御.代谢组学的兴起,为...     

非生物胁迫相关NAC转录因子的结构及功能

NAC是植物特有的一类转录因子,参与植物多个生长发育过程,还参与植物对逆境胁迫的响应。本文对非生物胁迫相关NAC转录因子的结构特征、功能预测、表达特性、在转基因植物中的作用及调控路径进行综述。非生物胁迫相关NAC转录因子具有典型的NAc胁迫亚家族结构特征,根据这些结构特征可以预测其功能;非生物胁迫相关NAc转录因子能响应多种非生物胁迫,其转基因过表达大多能使转基因植物提高一种或几种胁迫耐受性;非生物胁迫相关NAc转录因子有着复杂的调控路径。这些NAc转录因子可用于提高转基因植物的逆境耐受性。     

植物应答非生物胁迫的代谢组学研究进展

代谢组学技术是研究植物代谢的理想平台, 通过现代检测分析技术对胁迫环境下植物中代谢产物进行定性和定量分析, 可以监测其随时间变化的规律。而各种组学平台包括基因组学、转录组学及代谢组学的整合, 更是一个强有力的工具箱, 将所获得的不同组学的信息联系起来, 有利于从整体研究生物系统对基因或环境变化的响应, 如可判断代谢物的变化是从哪一个层面开始发生的, 帮助人们揭开复杂的植物胁迫应答机制。该文对近期代谢组学技术及其与蛋白质组学、基因组学技术相结合探索植物应答非生物胁迫的研究进行了综述。代谢组学的应用, 拓展了对植物耐受非生物胁迫分子机制的认识, 开展更多这方面的研究, 再通过植物代谢组学、转录组学、蛋白质组学和基因组学整合, 有助于从整体水平上把握植物胁迫应答机制。     

WRKY转录因子参与植物抗盐性调控的研究进展

盐胁迫是影响植物生长发育重要的环境因子之一,为了适应及抵御盐胁迫危害的逆境,作物自身会通过一系列变化来适应环境而作出相关性应激性改变,如宏观形态学、生理学改变、微观分子生物学变化等。转录调控是细胞内部调控网络中最重要的一个环节,WRKY转录因子响应并参与多种植物的生物和非生物胁迫。本综述从盐胁迫下作物形态结构的变化、盐胁迫对作物生理代谢的影响以及WRKY转录因子参与作物抗盐调控网络等方面文献,来汇总分析近年来拟南芥、水稻及其他种类植物应对胁迫的响应机制以及WRKY转录因子的功能,为提高园艺作物抗盐性生理作用及分子机制提供帮助,同时为作物抗盐栽培提供新思路。     

WRKY转录因子与植物逆境响应

WRKY转录因子是高等植物特有的一类转录调控因子,也是植物生命活动中不可或缺的调控枢纽。研究发现,WRKY转录因子参与植物生长发育过程及多种生物与非生物逆境响应。本文分析了WRKY转录因子的分类及结构,对其多种作用机制包括上游调控、下游调控、蛋白质相互作用等进行了归类,总结了近年来在各类植物上发现的WRKY转录因子调控植物生长发育和参与植物响应生物及非生物逆境的多重功能。并针对目前WRKY转录因子的研究所存在的问题,提出部分意见,为进一步挖掘WRKY家族的功能机制奠定了基础。     

WRKY对糖调控园艺作物冷适应的研究进展

植物的糖既能参与细胞的碳和能量代谢,又能作为信号分子促进植株生长发育并参与调控植物对逆境胁迫的响应。目前诸多研究表明抗寒锻炼中可溶性糖的积累有助于保护植物抵御冻害,黄瓜等园艺作物的抗冷性在外源施糖后提高,但具体机制尚未明确。糖能够促进植株通过表观形态、生理生化及分子水平等方面对非生物逆境胁迫响应、调控植株的抗性。糖代谢过程与脱落酸(ABA)等植物激素的调控密切相关。WRKY作为ABA相关逆境应答信号通路中的核心转录因子,同是糖代谢调控机制中的重要因子,或许在响应冷胁迫的相关代谢机制中参与发挥着重要作用。综述了糖对园艺作物冷适应的响应及调控的分子机理,并分析讨论了WRKY家族对园艺植物糖调控冷适应效应响应的机理。     

miR398在植物逆境胁迫应答中的作用

MicroRNA (miRNA)是一类新型的调控基因表达的小分子RNA, 它作为基因表达的负调控因子, 在转录后水平调节靶基因的表达。miRNA参与调控植物的生长发育, 并在多种非生物与生物胁迫响应中发挥重要作用。miR398是第一个被报道的受氧化胁迫负调控的miRNA。它通过负调控其靶基因Cu/Zn过氧化物歧化酶(Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase, CSD)的表达, 在多种逆境胁迫响应中扮演重要角色, 如调节铜代谢平衡, 应答重金属、蔗糖、臭氧等非生物胁迫, 以及参与应答生物胁迫等。文章综述了miR398在多种逆境胁迫响应中重要的调节作用及miR398自身的转录调控。     

植物BBX转录因子基因家族的研究进展

转录因子在调控植物生长、发育及环境适应性等方面发挥重要作用。具有B-box结构域的一类锌指结构转录因子称为BBX,它们通过调控基因转录,与同类或其他转录因子的互作参与植物光形态建成、花发育、避荫效应、植物信号转导以及非生物和生物逆境响应等。文中从BBX蛋白结构、分类以及其功能方面对该类转录因子在植物中的作用进行了综述。     

植物响应盐胁迫组学研究进展

盐胁迫对植物生长的影响主要表现在离子毒害、渗透胁迫以及次级氧化胁迫等,植物遭受盐胁迫时迅速启动相关基因,进行转录调控,进而合成相应蛋白质来控制代谢物合成和离子转运以调节渗透平衡。随着现代分子生物学迅速发展,对植物耐盐机理研究也深入到了转录组、蛋白质组、代谢组及离子组等水平,"组学"研究为耐盐基因鉴定及标志性代谢物的挖掘等提供了有力手段。该文对近年来国内外有关转录组学、蛋白质组学、代谢组学、离子组学的主要研究方法及在盐胁迫中的应用研究进展进行综述,以揭示植物耐盐机理,为优良耐盐碱植物的筛选与培育提供支持。     

Reactive Oxygen,Nitrogen, Carbonyl and Sulfur Species and Their Roles in Plant Abiotic Stress Responses and Tolerance

Plants being sessile organisms are often exposed to various abiotic stress conditions, which greatly hamper the growth, yields as well as the quality of produce. Plants respond to abiotic stresses in an exceptionally complex and coordinated manner, involving the interactions and crosstalk with many metabolic-molecular pathways. One of the most common responses is generation of reactive chemical species including reactive oxygen species (ROS), reactive nitrogen species (RNS), reactive carbonyl species (RCS) and reactive sulfur species (RSS). ROS and RNS have long attracted attention from the plant researchers for both their damaging as well as protective effects. However, several reports are emerging to confirm similar roles played by the relatively newer 'reactive' members, the RCS and RSS. Plant reactive species are also hailed as vivacious signaling molecules that play regulatory roles in many plant metabolic procedures. Undeniably, these reactive species are involved in virtually all aspects of plant cell functions. Reactive species and the antioxidant machinery maintain a delicate but critical cellular redox-balance which gets disturbed under stress conditions, where their biosynthesis, transportation, scavenging and the overall metabolism gets decisive for plant survival. The current review aims to highlight and discuss the role of ROS, RNS, RCS, and RSS in plants especially under abiotic stresses, cross-talks between them, current approaches and technological advents for their characterization, and a perspective view on exploration/manipulation of the pathways and check-points involved in biosynthesis, transport and scavenging of these reactive species for engineering abiotic stress tolerant crop plants.

     

Combinatorial Interactions of Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Plants and Their Molecular Mechanisms: Systems Biology Approach

Plants are continually facing biotic and abiotic stresses, and hence, they need to respond and adapt to survive. Plant response during multiple and combined biotic and abiotic stresses is highly complex and varied than the individual stress. These stresses resulted alteration of plant behavior through regulating the levels of microRNA, heat shock proteins, epigenetic variations. These variations can cause many adverse effects on the growth and development of the plant. Further, in natural conditions, several abiotic stresses causing factors make the plant more susceptible to pathogens infections and vice-versa. A very intricate and multifaceted interactions of various biomolecules are involved in metabolic pathways that can direct towards a cross-tolerance and improvement of plant’s defence system. Systems biology approach plays a significant role in the investigation of these molecular interactions. The valuable information obtained by systems biology will help to develop stress-resistant plant varieties against multiple stresses. Thus, this review aims to decipher various multilevel interactions at the molecular level under combinatorial biotic and abiotic stresses and the role of systems biology to understand these molecular interactions.     

Seed priming for abiotic stress tolerance: an overview

Plants are exposed to any number of potentially adverse environmental conditions such as water deficit, high salinity, extreme temperature, submergence, etc. These abiotic stresses adversely affect the plant growth and productivity. Nowadays various strategies are employed to generate plants that can withstand these stresses. In recent years, seed priming has been developed as an indispensable method to produce tolerant plants against various stresses. Seed priming is the induction of a particular physiological state in plants by the treatment of natural and synthetic compounds to the seeds before germination. In plant defense, priming is defined as a physiological process by which a plant prepares to respond to imminent abiotic stress more quickly or aggressively. Moreover, plants raised from primed seeds showed sturdy and quick cellular defense response against abiotic stresses. Priming for enhanced resistance to abiotic stress obviously is operating via various pathways involved in different metabolic processes. The seedlings emerging from primed seeds showed early and uniform germination. Moreover, the overall growth of plants is enhanced due to the seed-priming treatments. The main objective of this review is to provide an overview of various crops in which seed priming is practiced and about various seed-priming methods and its effects.